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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From John Lampert</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sunday morning, January 31 at 10:30Am the <FONT
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program:</FONT></DIV>
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<U><STRONG><FONT size=4>THE CURRENT STATE OF AMERICAN
POLITICS</FONT></STRONG></U></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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10:30AM Spiegel Auditorium, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge (Harvard
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Program Speaker: Professor Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology,
Boston</FONT></DIV>
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College, Program is Free, Public Welcome, Coffee and Discussion to
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presentation. For further information, call 617-739-9050 or visit
BostonEthical.Org</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: #ebebeb"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>Charles Derber</STRONG> is a writer who studies
the "big picture" of American culture and global capitalism. His recent books
focus on climate change, capitalism, globalization, terrorism, the culture of
hegemony, and the power of multinational corporations. He has also written
extensively on the American Dream and the crisis of individualism that defines
American life, showing how our problems of community are organically tied to
economic and political forces.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: #ebebeb"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Public
sociologists seek to bring the sociological imagination to a larger public
forum. Derber writes mainly for a broad, public audience and spends considerable
time writing and speaking for mass media and magazines. His books have been
translated into German, Chinese, and Polish and are addressing a global
audience. He has been intimately involved in the worldwide debate about climate
change, capitalism, globalization, corporate power, the war on terrorism, and
American Empire. This reflects his view that sociologists who feel they have
something important to say should write in a clear and simple way rather than
dress their arguments up in technical jargon. Sociologists have a distinctive
perspective to offer on our social problems, and we are defaulting on our
responsibilities if we don't enter the public debate. </FONT></P><SPAN
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current work focuses on globalization, corporate power, American militarism, the
culture of hegemony, and the new peace and global justice movements. The world
is becoming as dominated by business values and power today as <?xml:namespace
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w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> was by the Robber Barons a
century ago. Derber is persuaded that the overwhelming economic and cultural
power of global corporations, increasingly melded with the political and
military hegemonic power of the American government and the crisis of climate
change, are together an integrated crisis that is now the pre-eminent social
issue of the 21st century, and that we need a new vision and political movement
that can offer an alternative.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>