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Who Stole the American Dream?

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA, 98260 United States (map)

A PRESENTATION OF THE SNO-ISLE LIBRARIES FOUNDATION

The Trudy J. Sundberg Memorial Lecture Series presents Hedrick Smith, author of "Who Stole the American Dream?"

  • Income inequality - is it the end of the American Dream?  How did it happen?  Should we care?

  • What does the income divide mean for our future?  What are the solutions?

Hedrick Smith is a renowned public speaker and author of several best selling books.  He was a long time New York Times reporter where he won two Pulitzer Prizes and later, an Emmy-winning producer of PBS' Frontline.

 

 

Free and Open to the Public

 

Earlier Event: May 3
Middle School Band Recitals
Later Event: May 12
Community Open House

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.