The 2017 "Snowbird" Symposium

People are still puzzling over how it happened, how did Donald Trump become President? Much of the Center's January-March “Snowbird” Symposium was centered on this question. In case you missed these discussions, want to hear them again or would like to pass them on to a friend, quite a few are available as videos on our website:

• For the impact here in Mexico, veteran journalist Laura Carlsen discussed “El Presidente Trump.”
• Economist and political commentator Jeff Faux gave us his analysis in “How the Democrats Elected Donald Trump.”
• Media critic and founder of FAIR Jeff Cohen focused his critical eye on the media, both right wing and establishment.  And, Jeff joined filmmaker Jen Senko to discuss her new documentary “The Brainwashing of My Dad.” 
• And, here was our take on the question — “Globalization & Its Discontents.” 

But it wasn’t all about US politics: 

• Juan Gerardo Domínguez pointed to a brighter future in a talk on “Cooperativism & the Solidarity Economy.”
• Marco Gomez and Maria Lucero Jiménez Guzmán looked “Toward a Workers’ Economy.” 
• Returning from nine months working with Syrian refugees on Samos, Sallie Latch reported on “The Refugee Crisis in Greece.”
• Joan Roelofs and Cliff DuRand explored “Varieties of Socialism.” 
• Gregory Diamant addressed “Anxiety, Automation and the Future of Work” 
• Betsy Bowman looked at the on-going economic crisis.
• Cliff DuRand discussed “Building a Good Society”