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DESCRIPTION:CHALLENGING CAPITALISM with DAVID BARSAMIAN of Alternative Radio!\n\nBook 
 event celebrating the release of "Occupy the Economy: Challenging 
 Capitalism" by Richard Wolff and David Barsamian\n\nThursday, September 13, 
 7PM\nResource Center for Nonviolence\n612 Ocean Street,  Santa Cruz\n(831) 
 423-1626\n\nTICKETS: Sliding Scale Donation $7 to $15 ($25 or more receives 
 copy of "Occupy the Economy")\n\nWhile 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.\n\nRichard D. 
 Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at U. Mass, and Visiting Professor 
 at the New School University. Author of Capitalism Hits the Fan, he's been 
 a guest on NPR, Glenn Beck Show, and Democracy Now!\n\nDavid Barsamian is 
 founder and director of Alternative Radio and author of Targeting Iran. He 
 is best known for his interview books with Noam Chomsky, including What We 
 Say Goes.\n\nPraise for Occupy the Economy:\n\n"Richard Wolff and David 
 Barsamian truly understand, at the deepest levels, both the need for 
 political, social, and economic change in this nation, and the ways such 
 change can happen. This is an essential read for everybody concerned with 
 the future of the world, from academics to concerned citizens, it's also a 
 brilliant and thoughtful manual that every activist must own."\n—Thom 
 Hartmann, internationally syndicated radio/TV host, and author of The Last 
 Hours of Ancient Sunlight\n\n"Occupy activists everywhere are heatedly 
 debating the question, 'What's next for our movement?' In his collected 
 interviews with David Barsamian, radical economist Richard Wolff lays out a 
 compelling framework for further anti-corporate organizing that focuses on 
 the root of the problem: capitalism and its never-ending assault on the 
 99%. Occupiers (past, present, and future) now have an intellectual guide 
 to a different kind of economy--one that's equitable, sustainable and, 
 let's hope, politically achievable, sooner rather than later. Wolff's deep 
 but conversational synthesis of recent practice and older theory couldn't 
 be more timely, persuasive, and readable. This book should be required 
 reading for all labor and community organizers newly inspired by Occupy 
 Wall Street!"\n—Steve Early, labor activist, journalist, and author of 
 The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor\n\nPraise for Richard Wolff:\n\n"With unerring 
 coherence and unequaled breadth of knowledge, Rick Wolff offers a rich and 
 much needed corrective to the views of mainstream economists and 
 pundits."\n—Stanley Aronowitz\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/26/18720280.php
SUMMARY:"Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism", w/ David Barsamian and Richard Wolff
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\n612 Ocean St\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/26/18720280.php
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