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...forum, entitled, "Restoring Real Democracy: Elections, Voter Turnout, and the Decline in Civic Engagement Organizations," focused on why citizens, especially lower-class voters, were staying away from the polls. Over 100 people attended the forum, which took place at the Wiener Auditorium...
...Forum Chair Richard B. Freeman, Ascherman chair in economics and the faculty co-chair of the Harvard Trade Union Program, said U.S. voter turnout is lower than any other democracy. Freeman said voter turnout decreased among eligible voters of all levels of education in the years between...
...forum was co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics and by the Harvard Trade Union Program...
Other IOP events--including ARCO Forum speeches and IOP fellows' office hours--will remain open to all community members...
...felt the trial such a farce that he read a newspaper as the most damning testimonies were deposed against him in court--this decision frightens me. A system of accountability for the actions of multinational actors like Royal Dutch/Shell is most certainly needed, yet such a legal forum should not be entirely American. While I respect the American system--a society that produces the entertainment of Erin Brockovitch is infinitely preferable to live in than one that produces the pain and struggle of Ken Saro-Wiwa--I respect it because it's right for the United States...