Piketty information

Thomas Piketty at UMass Oct. 2, 2014 - 5 p.m., Student Union Ballroom

Student Union Ballroom

See the excellent UMass page on Piketty, with links to articles about him at http://www.umass.edu/sbs/news-events/events/social-science-matters-perspectives-inequality—gamble-lecture-thomas-piketty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty

Thomas Piketty, a French economist is author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" ( 2013), which, according to the wikipedia entry on Piketty, "emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years," arguing that "the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future."
"To address this problem," according to wikipedia,  Piketty "proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth."

What not to do in an interview

Don't pretend you know something if you don't as in THIS interview with two actors in a movie the interviewer pretends he has seen but actually confused with another movie.

"We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" on Netflix

The documentary about Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, "We Steal Secrets" on Netflix: HERE.

Oct 2 lecture

Thomas Piketty lecture, Oct 2, 5 p.m., Student Union Ballroom

http://www.umass.edu/sbs/news-events/events/social-science-matters-perspectives-inequality—gamble-lecture-thomas-piketty

Resources for writing about transgender people

Some helpful links on reporting and writing about transgender people:

Poynter: Nine ways journalists can do justice to transgender people's stories Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) Media Guide

Article about the misguided questions Katie Couric asked about genitalia and Laverne Cox's answer at Salon. Laverene Cox quote: "I do feel there is a preoccupation with that. The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don’t get to really deal with the real lived experiences. The reality of trans people’s lives is that so often we are targets of violence. We experience discrimination disproportionately to the rest of the community. Our unemployment rate is twice the national average; if you are a trans person of color, that rate is four times the national average. The homicide rate is highest among trans women. If we focus on transition, we don’t actually get to talk about those things."

What not to do in an interview

Some tips on what to do.

Speaker Tuesday, Sept. 16