The Boll Weevil in Suit and Badge: Gentrification and the Role of the Police State Under Neo-Colonialism — Atlanta as a Case Study

Augustus Wood, a postdoctoral research associate in the Labor and Education Program at the University of Illinois, traced Atlanta policing, surveillance programs, the 1970s "red list," land devalorization, and the Olympics-era demolition of Techwood and Clark Howell Homes. An audience Q&A followed on labor unions, neoliberalism, and defunding versus de-powering police. Held online, near the end of the Y's fall 2020 election-year series on the state of democracy.