Join us In Conversation with Chuck Collins about Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet (published Oct 2025) & how it informs our fight to stop the proposed private jet expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere (Hanscom is mentioned on pages 68-70). Interview by Diane Proctor, League of Women Voters Concord-Carlisle. Q&A to follow interview.

About the author: Chuck Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) where he co-edits www.inequality.org. He is the author of numerous books and reports. For reports pertaining to Hanscom & private jets, click here.

About the interviewer: Diane Proctor is president of the Concord-Carlisle League of Women Voters and member of Concord Indivisible Steering Committee, Reclaim Our Democracy Steering Committee, and the SPJE Coalition Steering Committee. Diane is an accomplished and engaging moderator of numerous events.

Note:

• This event is hybrid. Details about how to attend online will be emailed to registrants soon.
• The in-person portion of this event will be held in the Goodwin Forum at the Concord Public Library in Concord Center at 129 Main Street (not to be confused with the Fowler Branch of the Concord Library at 1322 Main Street in West Concord).

Cosponsored by: SPJE, League of Women Voters Concord-Carlisle, Sierra Club Massachusetts, Concord First Parish-Environmental Action Team, Green Acton, Green Maynard, Concord Climate Action Network (CCAN), Lexington Climate Action Network (LexCAN), Mothers Out Front Newton, Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE), and The Enviro Show on WXOJ-LP (103.3 fm) - see our growing list of co-sponsors here!