Culture Project presents

"The Financial Crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past, but prologue and just one terrifying manifestation of how the grifter class has hijacked America’s political and economic life.”

- Matt Taibbi, Griftopia

"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”

– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

"The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make pawns of party leaders, use leading men of private organizations and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business. They connive at centralization of government on the theory that a small group of hand picked privately controlled individuals in power can be more easily handled than a larger group among whom there will most likely be men sincerely interested in public welfare."

-John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City, April 1922

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

-Thomas Jefferson

Culture Project, MoveOn.org, & Lannan Center present

Blueprint for AccountabilityThe Wal l Street-Washington Connection

Directed byTerry Kinney for Culture Project

Moderated byDylan Ratigan

withEliot SpitzerMatt Taibbi

Ron SuskindVan Jones

Heather McGheeJesse LaGreca

Dramatic Readings byAnna Khaja

Steven PasqualeCharles Parnell

Program

Part 1 – CrashPart 2 – Homegrown Tragedy

Part 3 – It’s a Wall Street GovernmentPart 4 – Conflict of Interest

VAN JONES has emerged as a leading champion of smart solutions for America’s middle class. He is a co-founder of three successful nonprofit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and Green For All. He holds a joint appointment at Princeton University as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. TIME magazine called him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009. He is also the best-selling author of the definitive book on green jobs, The Green Collar Economy. JESSE LAGRECA is a freelance writer for Daily Kos. He is also an articulate activist and protester who has gained large media coverage and supporters because of his role in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. In an interview with Fox News, LaGreca criticized the corporate media and Fox News. Although Fox News never aired the video, the raw footage went viral, making LaGreca the face of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Since Fox News, Jesse LaGreca has made numerous appearances on ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour and MSNBC’s The Ed Show with Ed Shultz.

HEATHER MCGHEE is the Director of Demos’ Washington office. Previously, she was the Deputy Policy Director, Domestic and Economic Policy, for the 2008 John Edwards for President campaign, and a Program Associate in Demos’ Economic Opportunity Program. Her writing and research have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Detroit Free-Press and CNN. She is the co-author of a chapter on retirement insecurity in the book Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences (New Press, 2005).

DYLAN RATIGAN is the host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, one of the highest-rated, daytime shows on the network. This daily broadcast fearlessly takes on the world of politics, money, and the unholy alliance between big business and government. The former global managing editor for corporate finance at Bloomberg News, Ratigan has developed and launched more than half a dozen broadcast and new media properties. They include CNBC’s Fast Money and Closing Bell, as well as DylanRatigan.com, which is home to his podcast, “Greedy Bastards Antidote.”

ELIOT SPITZER attended Harvard Law School and worked his way up in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. He was elected New York Attorney General in 1998. As attorney general, Spitzer made a name for himself as a crusading prosecutor. Not only did he lock horns with the Gambino Mafia crime family, he also became known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street.” In May 2002, he won a spectacular victory when he uncovered emails revealing that Merrill Lynch was riddled with financial conflicts of interest that affected its advice to customers. Merrill Lynch settled out of court for $100 million. Known for his strict ethics and persistence, Spitzer was elected governor in 2006.

RON SUSKIND is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has written some of America’s most important works of nonfiction, including the fall’s New York

Biographies

Times bestseller, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President. He is also the author of bestsellers including, The Way of the World, A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism; The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11; The Price of Loyalty, George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O’Neill; and A Hope in the Unseen, An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. From 1993 to 2000, he was the senior national affairs reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he was awarded the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He currently writes for various national magazines, including The New York Times Magazine and Esquire magazine.

MATT TAIBBI is an American author and polemical journalist reporting on politics, media, finance, and sports for Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal. Previously, he edited and wrote for The eXile, the New York Press, and The Beast. His July 2009 Rolling Stone article “The Great American Bubble Machine” famously described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” He is the author of the book Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.

STEVEN PASQUALE most recently starred on Broadway in Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty. A regular on the theater scene, Pasquale’s credits include Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden (World AIDS Day Concert), Henrik in A Little Night Music, Captain Taylor in A Soldier’s Play, Tom in the Neil LaBute off-Broadway hit, Fat Pig, and created the role of Fabrizio in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’ The Light in the Piazza. Television audiences have followed his role as Sean Garrity on Rescue Me. His film credits include Aurora Borealis which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, and Jonathan’s Segal’s The Last Run. His solo album, Somethin’ Like Love, was released by the Grammy nominated record label PS Classics.

CHARLES PARNELL is an American actor best known for being the second actor to portray Police Chief Derek Frye on All My Children. Parnell took over the role previously played by actor William Christian. He joined the cast of the show on September 8, 2005, and made his final appearance on September 24, 2007. Parnell also provides the voice of Jefferson Twilight on Cartoon Network’s The Venture Bros. Before taking the role of Derek Frye, Parnell played Achilles in Iphigeneia at Aulis, a play by Euripides translated and adapted by Kenneth Cavander at the Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut. He has most recently appeared in the television shows Fringe, NCIS: Los Angeles, and The Mentalist.

ANNA KHAJA is the 2011 winner of the Ovation Award for Lead Actress in a Play for Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto (also nominated for Best Production of the Year), which she wrote and performed in both LA and NY. In 2007, she originated the role of the Iraqi mother “Nerjas,” delivering a 45 minute monologue in the US Premiere of Canadian playwright Judith Thompson’s Palace Of The End. For her performance she received an LA Weekly Award for Solo Performance as well as a nomination for a Lead Actress Ovation Award. She has received outstanding notices from and features in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Backstage West, Backstage NYC, NYTheater.com, NPR/WNYC Radio, Hollywood Reporter, LA Weekly, Audrey magazine and Variety. She recently shot California Solo with Robert Carlyle and Danny Masterson as well as

Admissions with James Cromwell - both due out in 2012. Her television appearances include The Closer, House M.D., Private Practice, This Might Hurt, Flash Forward, Numb3rs, Sleeper Cell, Dirt, Weeds and the new NBC half hour comedy, BENT. Watch for her recurring role on the upcoming season True Blood on HBO.

TERRY KINNEY (Director) is a stage, film and television actor, and founder of Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. At the height of the company’s fame, Kinney won numerous awards, and even transferring some productions, such as their monumental adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, to Broadway. As an actor, Kinney was nominated for a Tony Award for his appearance as the “Reverend Casey” in Grapes. Kinney made his movie debut in 1985, with a bit part in Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985), and has been much in demand as a supporting actor ever since. On television, he had a small but recurring role on thirtysomething (1987) and appeared as a regular on the HBO prison drama Oz (1997).

JODIE EVANS (Executive Producer) is co-founder and co-director of CODEPINK and has been a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for forty years. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolution to conflict. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential campaign. She has published two books, Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire, and has produced several documentary films, including the Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America and Howard Zinn’s The People Speak. Jodie is the board chair of Women’s Media Center and sits on many other boards, including Rainforest Action Network, Drug Policy Alliance, Institute of Policy Studies, Women Moving Millions and Sisterhood is Global Institute. She is the mother of three.

ANDREW S. KARSCH (Executive Producer) established Longfellow Pictures and took on running companies for both William Randolph Hearst III and Sidney Kimmel. Among his producing credits is the Academy Award-nominated Best Pictures, Moneyball and The Prince of Tides, as well as The Emperor’s Club, Conviction. He runs a new motion picture/multimedia company, Insurgent Media, LLC, with partners Erik Gordon and Fisher Stevens. Politically, Mr. Karsch worked with Senator Edward M. Kennedy running his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1976 and served as the Senator’s Issues and Media Director for the state of New York during his 1980 Presidential campaign. Political work remains one of his core concerns and he continues to advise candidates, campaigns, and foundations.

ALLAN BUCHMAN (Executive Director and Artistic Director) is the founder and Artistic Director of Culture Project. After spending the majority of his life as a restorer of the finest keyboard instruments in the world including Richard Wagner’s Bechstein, Buchman founded Culture Project in 1996.

JAYASHRI WYATT (Lead Producer) is Director of Productions at Culture Project. She has worked closely with directors Fisher Stevens, John Caird and Kenny Leon to conceptualize many of Culture Project’s multidisciplinary and activist programs. She works with committed advocacy partners, journalists, and intellectuals to create original programming on a range of politically urgent subject matter. Jayashri also co-produced Breaking the Silence, Beating the Drum–a special concert and cultural evening to commemorate the end of the transatlantic slave trade at United Nations

Headquarters (2009), as well as Twin Spirits in New York (2010) and Los Angeles (2011) with Trudie Styler and Sting.

KATE LINHARDT is an independent documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and video editor based in New York City. She received a Bachelor of Arts in American Culture and Film from Vassar College, and originally hails from Southern California.

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Special ThanksJodie Evans, Monica Winsor, Laura Dawn and MoveOn.org, Stuart Shultz and FORA.tv, Tracy Van Slyke and The New Bottom Line, Stewart R. Mott Foundation, Cynthia Ryan and the Schooner Foundation, Nancy Bagley, Anna Lefer Kuhn, Mike Lux and ARCA Foundation, Julian Brooks and Rolling Stone, Janet Shank and Panta Rhea, Molly Shultz Haffid and Veatch Foundation, Andy Karsch, Nan Richardson, Terry Kinney; Natalie Foster, Katie Steele, Somer Huntley, Jim Pugh, and Ian Page at Rebuild the Dream; Don Hazen and Alternet, Peter Rothberg, Frank Reynolds and The Nation, Devan Shea and Alliance for Justice, Lauren Strayer and Demos, Tyler Jo Isenberg and Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, Don Rojas and Free Speech TV, Dixie Mitchell, and Rachel DeCruz at WashingtonCAN!

Terry Kinney, DirectorJodie Evans, Executive Producer

Andrew Karsch, Executive ProducerAllan Buchman, Executive Producer and Artistic Director

Jayashri Wyatt, Lead ProducerNan Richardson

Trena Riley, Associate ProducerKate Linhardt, Film Editor

Trevor Fitzgibbon, Public RelationsEmily Simonesse, Box Office Manager

Evan Bernadin, Stage ManagerChristopher Hlinka, Assistant Stage Manager

Max Tromba, Graphic DesignerPatricia Carbajal, Production InternTerehas Edwards, Production InternNathalie Gracia, Production Intern

Rebecca Schwartz, Production Assistant

Blueprint for Accountability Team

Culture Project StaffADMINISTRATIVE:

Allan Buchman, Artistic DirectorNan Richardson, Executive Director

Vanessa Sparling, Managing DirectorVictoria Andújar, Administrative Director & Special Assistant to the Artistic Director

PRODUCTION:Jayashri Wyatt, Director of Productions

Manda Martin, Associate Artistic DirectorAlex Mallory, Assistant Producer

Rebecca Schwartz, Assistant Producer

DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING:Elisa Lavery, Senior Marketing Associate

Mary Moore, Box Office Manager

INTERNS: Evan Bernadin, Rebecca Brown, Patricia Carbajal, Terehas Edwards, Nathalie Gracia, Kristin Guerin, Jamie Kingston, Elana McKernan, Trena Riley, Shuyi Zhou

Special Thanks

ADMINISTRATIVE: Allan Buchman, Artistic Director

Nan Richardson, Executive DirectorVanessa Sparling, Managing Director

Victoria Andújar, Administrative Director & Special Assistant to the Artistic Director

PRODUCTION:Jayashri Wyatt, Director of Productions

Manda Martin, Associate Artistic DirectorAlex Mallory, Assistant Producer

Rebecca Schwartz, Assistant Producer

DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING:Elisa Lavery, Senior Marketing Associate

Mary Moore, Box Office Manager

INTERNS: Evan Bernadin, Rebecca Brown, Patricia Carbajal, Terehas Edwards, Nathalie Gracia, Kristin Guerin, Jamie Kingston, Elana McKernan, Trena Riley, Shuyi Zhou

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Culture Project is very grateful for the support provided by The Lannan Center and MoveOn.org for Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection. This event is presented as part of the 2012 Lannan Spring Sympo-sium and Literary Festival.

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