DEMOCRACY FOR SALE?
Corruption and Inequality in South Africa and the US: A Moral and Material Challenge for our Time
WITH DANIEL WEEKS
Founder of the Money & Politics Project for transparency and accountability in S. Africa
“Massive poverty and inequality are such terrible scourges of our times–times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation–that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils.”
"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
- Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa
Monday, February 18 at 7pm
South Congregational Church
27 Pleasant St, Concord, NH
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Please RSVP by registering online, emailing council@wacnh.org or calling 603.314.7970
Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of NH, American Friends Service Committee- New Hampshire Program & NH Peace Action
ABOUT DANIEL WEEKS:
Daniel Weeks is Past President of Americans for Campaign Reform in Concord, New Hampshire and currently lives in South Africa. He has campaigned against big money in state and federal elections for over a decade, and has written and spoken extensively on democracy issues in national media. Weeks studied political science and philosophy at Yale and Oxford, where he organized student anti-poverty and political reform campaigns. He is undertaking the “Poor(in)Democracy” project as a Safra Center for Ethics Fellow at Harvard University. He is also presently launching the Money and Politics Project for transparency and accountability in South Africa. He and his wife Sindiso have written on poverty, politics, and race in South Africa and the US for the Union Leader, Concord Monitor, New York Times and online at www.SindisoAndDan.com.
Prior to enrolling at Yale, he served as an assistant teacher and program director for AmeriCorps in Washington, D.C. and English teacher in Guongdong Province, China. As a high school student, Weeks co-founded the non-partisan New Hampshire Youth Voter Alliance to engage fellow students in the political process, and has appeared on state and national media discussing youth political engagement and campaign finance reform.