The veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley and the author and Princeton University Professor Cornel West are in the midst of a 15-city, cross-country trek they have dubbed "The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience." The tour comes on the heels of last week’s deficit agreement, which has been widely criticized for excluding a tax hike on the wealthy, as well as any measures to tackle high unemployment. "Any legislation that doesn’t extend unemployment benefits, doesn’t close a single corporate loophole, doesn’t raise one cent in terms of new revenue in terms of taxes on the rich or the lucky, allows corporate America to get away scot-free again—the banks, Wall Street getting away again—and all these cuts ostensibly on the backs of everyday people," says Smiley.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/9/a_declaration_of_war_on_the
Guests:
Tavis Smiley, the host of
Tavis Smiley on
PBS and
The Tavis Smiley Show from
PRI. He is also co-host with of
Smiley & Westfrom
PRI with Dr. Cornel West.
Cornel West, professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University and the author of numerous books on race. His memoir is
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.
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