OCCUPY WALL STREET, INEQUALITY, and the 2012 ELECTION

Sunday, November 20, 7:30pm

Suzanne Patterson Center (behind Borough Hall)

*** FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ***

Finally, we have a movement focusing the national debate on the real needs and concerns of “the 99 percent.” But will it make any difference in next year’s elections? Will corporate money and conservative backlash counter any hope for change? And will the Occupiers themselves see any point in political participation, including voting?

• Nolan McCarty, Chair, Dept of Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Professor McCarty's areas of expertise include U.S. politics and the political impact of economic inequality and poverty. 
• Deborah Howlett, President of New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP), Trenton, NJ. Ms. Howlett will discuss NJPP's recent report "The State of Working New Jersey 2011: The Lost Decade." 
• Kate Whitman, Assistant Director of the Coalition for Peace Action based in Princeton. Ms. Whitman will speak about her experiences with the Occupy movement in NYC, Trenton and Philadelphia.