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The Road to Inequity: Understanding the Wealth Gap with Dr. Matthew C. Whitaker

Chandler Downtown Library 22 S. Delaware St., Chandler, AZ, United States

We often hear about the widening wealth gap in the United States. If we look back through history, federal policies and discriminatory practices, from redlining to the current gender wage gap, have contributed to lasting social and economic inequities. Who holds the wealth now? How was that wealth acquired? Can we move toward a more […]

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Caretakers of the Land: A Story of Farming and Community in San Xavier with Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan with

Chandler Hamilton Library 3700 S. Arizona Ave, Chandler, AZ, United States

Farming has always been the way of life for the Tohono O’odham community in San Xavier, located just south of Tucson. Their way of life depended on access to the land and to the water, namely the Santa Cruz River, which nourished agriculture in the area for generations. But a history of division sown through […]

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“Arizona’s Birth Control Movement: Providing Contraceptives to Rural and Urban Women” with Mary Melcher

Chandler Downtown Library 22 S. Delaware St., Chandler, AZ, United States

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Today, women’s ability to control their reproduction through use of contraception is taken for granted. But this is a fairly recent phenomenon. Birth control was illegal in the U.S. until 1936. Before birth control was legalized, a lively birth control movement developed in Arizona,initiated by Margaret Sanger and volunteers in Tucson and Phoenix. […]

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