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DESCRIPTION:Lecture & Slide Show with Dr. Gray Brechin\n\nIn 2003 Dr. Brechin began to 
 study the nearly invisible legacy of public works projects created during 
 President Roosevelt's New Deal to lift the country out of the last great 
 depression. The Living New Deal Project is a collaborative venture begun by 
 Dr. Brechin and photographer Robert Dawson to document and interpret the 
 impact of the WPA, CCC, PWA, CWA, FSA and other New Deal programs in 
 California. They soon discovered that the New Deal legacy is so vast and 
 poorly documented that it required the help of others to harvest 
 information. Former State Librarian Kevin Starr has likened the Project to 
 a WPA project from the 1930s in its ambition and scope. California's public 
 landscape of the New Deal includes schools, hospitals, parks, roads, 
 sewers, airports, amphitheaters, bridges, aqueducts, power stations, city 
 halls, art works and much more, constructed by a half dozen federal 
 agencies. Dr. Brechin notes, "As the worldwide economic crisis deepens, FDR 
 remains the gold standard of leadership-a style and approach that many hope 
 and expect President Obama to emulate. Few understand the magnitude and 
 ubiquity of its achievements”. Dr. Brechin is the author of two 
 best-selling books and is currently vice president of the National New Deal 
 Preservation Association and a visiting scholar the U.C. Berkeley 
 Department of Geography.\n\n\nPresented by BFUU Social Justice 
 Ctee\nRefreshments. Admission is $10. No one turned away.\nWheelchair 
 accessible\nwww.bfuu.org\n\nContact: 510-495-5132\n\nFor occasional email 
 notices of peace/eco/social justice alerts and related events at BFUU, send 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/19/18609170.php
SUMMARY:Gray Brechin: The Living New Deal in the East Bay
LOCATION:Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall \n1924 Cedar 
 (@Bonita), Berkeley\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/19/18609170.php
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