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DESCRIPTION:RADICAL POLITICS IN THE CARIBBEAN: A Discussion with William I. Robinson, 
 Christopher McAuley, Jeb Sprague, and Diana Barahona \n\n\n\nHost: UCSB 
 Campus Left \nDate: Thursday, April 9, 2009 \nTime: 6:30pm - 8:30pm 
 \nLocation: Embarcadero hall, UCSB \nCity/Town: Santa Barbara, CA 
 \n\nDescription \n\nYou are invited to a discussion on radical political 
 projects in the \nCaribbean; looking specifically at Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, 
 Venezuela, \nand new inspirational forms of solidarity such as the 
 Bolivarian \nAlternative for the Americas (ALBA). \n\nSpeakers \n\nWiliam I 
 Robinson, Professor of Sociology at UCSB, is the author of \nPromoting 
 Polyarchy (1996), Transnational Conflicts (2003), A Theory \nof Global 
 Capitalism (2004), and Global Capitalism and Latin America \n(2008). 
 Working formerly as a journalist in Sandanista Nicaragua in \nthe 1980s, he 
 is today a world renowned theorist on globalization and \nworks with the 
 immigrants rights movement in the United States as well \nas leftist social 
 movements in the Americas. For more information 
 \nsee:http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/ \n\nChristopher McAuley, 
 Professor in the Department of Black Studies at \nUCSB, teaches Caribbean 
 studies and has written on Oliver C. Cox, the \nCaribbean, and World 
 Systems Theory. For more information see: 
 \nhttp://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/people/mcauley.html \n\nJeb Sprague, a 
 graduate student in Sociology at UCSB, has published \nwith the Inter Press 
 Service (IPS) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, \nreceiving a 2008 Project 
 Censored Award. For more information 
 \nsee:http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~jhsprague/ \n\nDiana Barahona is a master's 
 candidate in Sociology at Cal State \nFullerton. She writes on Latin 
 America, with an emphasis on Venezuela, \nCuba and El Salvador. Writing for 
 CounterPunch in 2005, she was the \nfirst journalist to expose U.S. State 
 Department funding for Reporters \nWithout Borders. For more information 
 see: \nhttp://dianabarahona.blogspot.com/ \n\nThe event will be moderated 
 by Summer Gray, a graduate student at UCSB \nin Sociology and Global 
 Studies, whose focus of study is on the \nCaribbean. The event will include 
 drinks and refreshments. For more \ninformation or to add your organization 
 as a sponsor of this event, \nemail summer.m.gray [at] gmail.com. 
 \n\nROOM/LOCATION: Embarcadero hall, UCSB \nDATE/TIME: Thursday, Apil 9, 
 2009 @ 6:30pm \n\nSPONSORED: UCSB Campus Left \nCO-SPONSORED: Department of 
 Black Studies, Latin American and Iberian \nStudies, Orfalea Center, Global 
 & International Studies Program, \nCenter for New Racial Studies, U.S.E.U. 
 (Union Salvadorena de \nEstudiantes Universitario), Students for Justice in 
 Palestine, \nI.D.E.A.S..\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/05/18586308.php
SUMMARY:Radical Politics in the Caribbean
LOCATION:Location: Embarcadero hall, UCSB \nCity/Town: Santa Barbara, CA 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/05/18586308.php
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