Tag: Mario Savio
SubscribeMedia Advisory: Public policy professor, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to deliver Savio Memorial Lecture on class warfare
November 8, 2011:
he University of California, Berkeley’s 15th annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Robert Reich, former U.S. labor secretary and professor of public policy at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, on the topic of class warfare.
Elizabeth Warren envisions launch of tough ’21st-century’ watchdog agency
October 29, 2010:
Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, speaking Thursday evening at the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, diverged from her “standard” speech — on the worsening financial straits of the U.S. middle class — to talk about what it means “to build a new agency in a new world where information travels at the speed of light.” Warren said new technology can help make the agency responsive to consumers and less vulnerable to “capture” by the financial-services industry.
