<div>Join the world-renowned activist and thinker Patrick Bond for an evening of discussion and debate on strategy for development and progressive social change.</div>
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<div>Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.</div>
<div>encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111</div>
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<div>flyer: <a href="http://massglobalaction.org/projects/flyer-2008-04-30.pdf">http://massglobalaction.org/projects/flyer-2008-04-30.pdf</a> <br><br>About Patrick:<br>Patrick is a political economist based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society (<a href="http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#3b5998">http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs</font></a>). He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, raised in Alabama, and educated in economics at Swarthmore College, finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and geography at Johns Hopkins University. He is active with social movements in South Africa, Zimbabwe and internationally. Recent books are Fanon's Warning (edited, Africa World Press, 2005); Elite Transition (Pluto Press, 2005); Talk Left, Walk Right (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004); Against Global Apartheid (Zed Books, 2003); Zimbabwe's Plunge (coauthored with Simba Manyanya, Merlin Press, 2003); and Unsustainable South Africa (Merlin Press, 2002). </div>
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Projects: encuentro 5 & fair employment<br>Address: 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111<br>Websites: <a href="http://www.massglobalaction.org">www.massglobalaction.org</a>; <a href="http://www.fairjobs.org">www.fairjobs.org</a>; <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org">www.encuentro5.org</a><br>
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