Ralph welcomes back Bishop William J. Barber to discuss the upcoming Poor People’s Campaign March and Assembly in Washington, DC on June 29th, as well as Bishop Barber’s new book WHITE POVERTY: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy. Then Ralph is joined by Phil Mattera from Good Jobs First to discuss his new report, co-authored with Siobhan Standaert, on corporate misbehavior, “The High Cost of Misconduct: Corporate Penalties Reach the Trillion-Dollar Mark.”
Bishop William Barber is President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, which was established to train communities in moral movement building. He is Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and Founding Director and Professor at the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.
Phil Mattera serves as Violation Tracker Project Director and Corporate Research Project Director at Good Jobs First. Mr. Mattera is a licensed private investigator; author of four books on business, labor and economics; and a long-time member of the National Writers Union. His blog on corporate research and corporate misbehavior is the Dirt Diggers Digest, and he has written more than 70 critical company profiles for the Corporate Rap Sheets section of the Corporate Research Project website.