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Our featured speaker will be be Professor Amy Below, a professor at California State University, East Bay who is a teacher-scholar of international relations and comparative politics. with a regional emphasis of the Americas.
Professor Below will discuss techniques authoritarians have used to gain power in other countries - shifting the power from the people to one ruler or set of rulers. She will compare the various tactics strongmen use to gain and retain power to what is currently occurring in our country.
We then will watch and discuss a short (30-minute) video from the Gandhi Team about best practices for maintaining peace while attending protests/rallies.
Our May meeting featured Professor Steven K. Vogel, Director of the Political Economy Program, and Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the political economy of advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. His book, Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work (Oxford, 2018), argues that markets do not arise on their own but instead are crafted, primarily by governments, something he calls "marketcraft".