5/11: David Barsamian on: "People Power in the Age of Empire"

David Barsamian on: "Another World Is Possible: People Power in the Age of Empire"

Thursday, May 11, 7:00 pm
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, SF

Alternative Radio director, author and award-winning journalist David Barsamian will speak at New College on May 11, following the recent 20th Anniversary celebration of Alternative Radio. Barsamian reminds us that people have power that can be exercised most effectively through organization and collective action. When movements form, governments and corporations can be challenged. With few resources citizens in impoverished East Timor, Nicaragua, Haiti and India have risen and resisted oppression and overthrown tyrannies. Latin America today demonstrates the power of people to imagine and create alternatives.

David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His latest books are Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky and Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali. His earlier books include Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes." Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism and of a Democracy Media Award. Barsamian was recently awarded the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center Award for 2006.

$5 at the door

For more information, call 510-208-1700

Sponsored by

AK Press - http://www.akpress.org/
New College Media Studies MA Program - http://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies/
and Media Alliance - http://www.media-alliance.org/