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- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: The Roadmap
- Week 3: The 2% and the Voting Booth Trap
- Week 4: The Constitutional Case
- Week 5: People Primaries
- Week 6: The 99-Cent Revolution
- Week 7: The Powell Memo
- Week 8: Midterm + The Slow Bleed
- Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce
- Week 10: Worker Displacement
- Week 11: AI and Corporate Personhood
- Week 12: Labor Rights and the PRO Act
- Week 13: Movement Security
- Week 14: Veterans and the Gig Economy
- Week 15: The Call to Action
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Week 7 — The Blueprint & The Powell Memo
This week we examine Chapter 10 and Appendix E—the Powell Memo in full. This single 1971 document is the blueprint for how corporate America captured the political system and set the stage for decades of working-class decline.
Discussion prompts:
- Reading the Powell Memo in full—what is most striking…
