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Catherine Ruetschlin: Markets Don’t Stop Racism & D. Brian Burghart: Fatal Encounters

August 25, 2014

Good morning everyone! On today’s M&M Monday, Catherine Ruestchlin a policy analyst at Demos joins us to discuss how markets can Perpetuate racism and D. Brian Burghart (@fatalencounters) will discuss his site Fatal Encounters, a crow sourcing platform that documents death at the hands of law enforcement. Tune in at noon!

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