The Whittier Area Peace & Justice Coalition
Invites You to Our Special Event
Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
With Special Guest
David Barsamian
Founder & Director of Alternative Radio
Promoting His Book Written with Co-Author Richard Wolff
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Thursday, October 18th - 7:00 PM
At
<http://www.stmatthiaswhittier.org/> St. Matthias Episcopal Church
7056 Washington Avenue, Whittier 90602
Like that well known substance, Capitalism has hit the fan. Today's economic
crisis is the most severe since the Great Depression. What are its root
causes? The conventional explanations put the blame on greedy bankers who
pawned off credit default swaps, sub-prime mortgages & a smorgasbord of
derivatives, on a hapless & helpless public. To make matters worse there was
little or no regulation. So if we tinker with some reform measures, pass
some legislation, a tax cut here, a little stimulus package there &
everything will be hunky-dory. Will it? The seismic failures & problems
plaguing Capitalism are systemic & deep. Many people are suffering. But not
the upper crust. They are riding the gravy train to more riches. It is not a
question of a few rotten apples. It is past time to examine the barrel that
keeps producing the bad apples. Fundamental change is necessary to avoid
future collapses.
David Barsamian is the award-winning director of Alternative Radio:
<http://www.AlternativeRadio.org> www.AlternativeRadio.org and author of
many books. His latest is "Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism" with
Richard Wolff. One of America's most tireless & wide-ranging journalists,
he has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio
program and with his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn,
Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy & Edward Said. His articles & interviews appear in
The Progressive, The Sun, "Z" and other magazines and journals. A much in
demand public speaker, he lectures all over the world. For his
groundbreaking work on Kashmir he was deported from India on Sept 23, 2011.
AR airs on hundreds of public stations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
In the Los Angeles area it is on KPFK, every Tuesday afternoon 3-4
<http://www.stmatthiaswhittier.org/> St. Matthias Episcopal Church
7056 Washington Ave., Whittier 90602
N/E corner of Wardman St. and Washington Ave.
Washington Ave (not Blvd) runs north and south two short blocks east of
Greenleaf
Park on Washington (there is additional parking in the back of the church)
Walk through the second gate north of Wardman
Go through the door on the right into Lewis Hall
<http://mapq.st/fNC6wI> MAPQUEST directions
Facebook event page <http://www.facebook.com/events/499526433390928> HERE
For More Information Contact:
562-692-2621 or 562-233-8579 or: [email protected]
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Topanga Peace Alliance
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
Green Party LA County
Present
Occupy the Economy
with
David Barsamian
Founder & Director of Alternative Radio
Friday, October 19th - 7:30 PM
At The
Topanga Library
122 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga 90290
He is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award
for independent journalism,
and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.
The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media
Heroes.
Contact - Julie Levine, [email protected]
Parking: Underground
Order the book through KPFK and Support the Station here:
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click for more information about this book
In these eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff,
David Barsamian probes the root causes of the current economic crisis, its
unjust social consequences and what can and should be done to turn things
around. While others blame corrupt bankers and unregulated speculators or
the government or even the poor who borrowed, the authors show that the
causes of the crisis run much deeper. They reach back to the 1970s when the
capitalist system itself shifted, ending the century-old pattern of rising
wages for U.S. workers and thereby enabling the top 1% to become ultra-rich
at the expense of the 99%. Since then, economic injustice has become chronic
and further corrupted politics. The Occupy movement, by articulating deep
indignation with the whole system, mobilizes huge numbers who seek basic
change. Occupy the Economy not only clarifies and analyzes the crisis in
U.S. capitalism today, it also points toward solutions that can shape a far
better future for all.
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