You’re Invited to “We’re not Broke”
MASSPIRG Invites you to a special screening of the new movie We're Not Broke Thursday, Oct. 18 - 6:30 PM - Harvard Kennedy School Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor of the Taubman Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
MASSPIRG Invites you to a special screening of the new movie:
Thursday, Oct. 18 – 6:30 PM – Harvard Kennedy School
Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor of the Taubman Building, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
This film tells the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars
in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration
to the street—and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share.
Following the film will be a Q&A, featuring:
Archon Fung
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Co-Director: Transparency Policy Project
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Chuck Collins
Senior Scholar,
Institute for Policy Studies
featured in the film “We’re Not Broke”
Phineas Baxandall
Senior Analyst
Tax and Budget Policy
MASSPIRG and U.S. PIRG
Victoria Bruce
Director,
We’re Not Broke
While the event is free, we have limited seating available. Please RSVP.
This event is sponsored by MASSPIRG Education Fund and Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Authors
Deirdre Cummings
Legislative Director, MASSPIRG
Deirdre runs MASSPIRG’s public health, consumer protection and tax and budget programs. Deirdre has led campaigns to improve public records law and require all state spending to be transparent and available on an easy-to-use website, close $400 million in corporate tax loopholes, protect the state’s retail sales laws to reduce overcharges and preserve price disclosures, reduce costs of health insurance and prescription drugs, and more. Deirdre also oversees a Consumer Action Center in Weymouth, Mass., which has mediated 17,000 complaints and returned $4 million to Massachusetts consumers since 1989. Deirdre currently resides in Maynard, Mass., with her family. Over the years she has visited all but one of the state's 351 towns — Gosnold.