| Description: | Invited guest on WGBH 89.7 Boston radio program “Action Speaks: Underappreciated 20th Century Dates that Changed America,” with host Marc Levitt. Taped before a live audience at the AS220 in Providence, R.I. The “underappreciated date” for discussion was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1944 Second Bill of Rights Speech, in which he proclaimed a long list of core economic, social and cultural rights — the rights to health, adequate housing, fair wages and working conditions, education, and an adequate standard of living — as rights that were “expected” by the American people and which Congress had the duty to implement through prompt legislative action. Why these rights seem so foreign to public interest mobilization, politics, and advocacy in the U.S. today was a primary point of discussion. |
| Project/Activity Leader(s): | Tara Melish, Associate Professor and Director, Buffalo Human Rights Center |
| Unit: | Law School |
| Department: | Law School |
| City: | Providence |
| State: | RI |
| Country: | United States |
| External Funding: | Yes |
| Funding Source: | Action Speaks |
| Start Date: | 2012-11 |
| End Date: | 2012-11 |
| External Partners: | Action Speaks Radio Program; Action Speaks Scholars Board; University of Rhode Island |
| Are UB students involved? | No |
