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Regulatory Aversion

Anthony Flaccavento
April 17, 2017
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I’ve got a new piece up at the Stansbury Forum. Below is brief excerpt. You can check out the full read here. Millions of people – a strong majority of Americans, in fact – support stronger, not weaker regulations to protect the environment and public health. But that’s only part…

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Presentation pictures

Anthony Flaccavento
February 2, 2017
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I had the pleasure of speaking about the bottom up economy at the Clinton School in Little Rock, Arkansas in January. Here are a couple pics from the event:

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Appalachia, 2016: Transitioning into the Transition

Anthony Flaccavento
January 31, 2017
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I’ve got a piece up at Now & Then Magazine, which the good folks there have given me permission to reprint as I see fit. Check out the PDF here Check out the rest of the publication here.

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The Making of Dylan Roof

Anthony Flaccavento
January 22, 2017
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The Making of Dylan Roof

This is an outstanding, and sobering 5 ½ minute video from the SPLC about how Google helped cultivate Dylan Roof:This is an outstanding, and sobering 5 ½ minute video from the SPLC about how Google helped cultivate Dylan Roof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB6A45tA6mE&feature=youtu.be

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Laura Flanders Show!

Anthony Flaccavento
December 9, 2016
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Laura Flanders Show!

While I was in Philly we hopped over to NYC for the day and had the great experience of interviewing on the Laura Flanders Show. We had a great chat about politics and the economy. The interview is set to broadcast Link TV (Fridays at 9:00 pm with repeats throughout…

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Book talk at Philadelphia’s KCFC

Anthony Flaccavento
December 7, 2016
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I had the pleasure of presenting my book at the Kensington Community Food Co-op in Philadelphia last night. The KCFC, with its board of directors and widening membership base, is doing a lot of important, bottom-up work to support and enliven its neighborhood. Special thanks to the folks who made…

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Report from the Institute for Local Self Reliance

Anthony Flaccavento
December 2, 2016
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Amazon is Undermining Competition, Small Businesses, and Workers, and Reducing Economic Opportunity  and Consumer Choice, New Report Finds Report Presents New Data about Amazon’s Market Power, Impact on Jobs and Wages, and Heavy Reliance on Public Subsidies WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amazon, the rapidly expanding company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995,…

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Facebook versus Face-to-Face: As shared realities have disappeared, so have our shared truths

Anthony Flaccavento
December 2, 2016
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 A lot of folks have begun talking about “fake news” and more broadly, the widespread decline of shared truths, of commonly agreed-upon sets of facts about issues critical to most of us.  This is an enormous and daunting problem for our country, especially given the political and cultural polarization that…

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Losing Liberal Language

Anthony Flaccavento
November 9, 2016
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Excerpt from a recent Huffington Post piece, looking at media concentration as a window into the vernacular of the liberal and progressive elite: Of course it goes without saying that the long-term, heavily funded campaign of the extreme Right to denigrate the government and denude the public sphere has played…

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Trickle Down’s Failures

Anthony Flaccavento
September 23, 2016
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Here’s a short excerpt from my new piece from me up at The Progressive Wing: …All across this country, as local, living economies struggle to emerge and take root, as innovative entrepreneurs and sustainable farms provide products and services that customers want and communities need, trickle-down thinking works against the…

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  • Regulatory Aversion

    Regulatory Aversion

    April 17, 2017
  • Presentation pictures

    Presentation pictures

    February 2, 2017
  • Appalachia, 2016: Transitioning into the Transition

    Appalachia, 2016: Transitioning into the Transition

    January 31, 2017
  • The Making of Dylan Roof

    The Making of Dylan Roof

    January 22, 2017

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