Sean Connery stars as a leader of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish mineworkers in Pennsylvania in the 1870s, who battle their exploitation by mine owners with violence. This 1970 American film, based on a 1969 novel by Arthur H. Lewis, also stars Richard Harris and Samantha Eggar. Set just a decade prior …
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Jan 30 Wed. 6 PM: How I made $1,000,000 in Chicago Real Estate: I $tole it from You!
What George Menninger did was completely legal. He stole over a million dollars. Many people do it, perhaps including some of your neighbors, so if George hadn’t then someone else would have. You and fellow Chicagoans have already paid George so he is far beyond the need to earn a living. Now he volunteers some …
Feb 11 Mon 6PM: No Farms, No Food
Since earliest civilizations, humans have recognized that food is a product of farmland (and, yes, pastureland, fisheries, etc) and have managed to cultivate enough land to feed themselves. Yet today we routinely convert farmland to urban use. American Farmland Trust (AFT) seek to ensure continued agricultural use of some land by buying development rights from …
Jan 30 Wed. 6 PM: How I made $1,000,000 in Chicago Real Estate: I $tole it from You!
What George Menninger did was completely legal. He stole over a million dollars. Many people do it, perhaps including some of your neighbors, so if George hadn’t then someone else would have. You and fellow Chicagoans have already paid George so he is far beyond the need to earn a living, so now he volunteers …
Jan 23 Wed 6 PM: Political Economy Book Club discusses the Menace of Privilege
We gather to talk about one of Henry George, Jr.’s important works, The Menace of Privilege. From the Preface: What is the cause of the grave changes that are coming over the American Republic — the extraordinary inequality in the distribution of wealth manifested on every hand; the rise of class feeling; the growth …
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Welcome to 2013: Winter course schedule includes a morning class
This winter we offer five classes, including three sections of Progress & Poverty, and two advanced courses: Human Rights and After the Crash. The full schedule with link to preregistration is here. If this is your first time at the Henry George School, you should begin with Progress & Poverty. You’ll gain a new perspective …
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Jan 16 Wed 6 PM: Stephen Zarlenga on Henry George’s Concept of Money
Living in the 19th century, Henry George had a first-hand view of “hard money” throwing the economy into disarray. While George always asserted that the fundamental reform needed was public collection of land rent, tonight’s speaker will show that he also held “quite advanced” views of money, seeing its control as a legitimate function of …
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Finally! College credit for Henry George School courses!
Many of our students remark that, even though they may have college degrees in economics or other social sciences, they learned important things with us that should have been, but never were discussed in their regular college classes. Occasionally we’ve even had a student manage, with the help of a thoughtful college instructor, to get …
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Wed Dec 5 at 6 PM: The Invisible Cost of Imaginary Property
New kinds of privilege are extracting wealth from people who produce. Historically, owners of land extracted tribute in exchange for the resource everyone needs to produce or even live. But more recently, imaginary property “rights,” really just the power to levy a toll on production, and which were well-understood by Henry George, have taken an …
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Nov 12 Mon 6 PM: High Cost of Government Revenue
Whether we go over the “fiscal cliff” or muddle through in a less dramatic way, one thing that seems certain to survive is the Federal Income Tax. This power point presentation by HGS instructor and Administrative Director Bob Jene looks at the actual cost of collecting that tax. The IRS overhead itself represents the direct …
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