<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">Join us at e5 tomorrow for a conversation with author Charlie Derber and Occupier Brian Kwoba, pro-immigrant scholar Alexandra Pineros-Shields and solidarity unionist Genevieve Butler (see description below); also consider Friday's reading in Somerville from David Gilbert's Love & Struggle (announcement follows below); and, of course, on Saturday, it's time for the
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Author, activist and BC sociologist Charlie Derber speaks to his most recent book, <em style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=287392" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,90,140)" target="_blank">Marx's Chost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World</a></em>. He will be joined by Alexandra Pineros Shields, Brian Kwoba and Genevieve Butler. </p>
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>From the publisher: <span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">An American sociologist (Derber) travels to London's Highgate cemetery, where Karl Marx is buried. A surprise encounter with Marx's ghost, which reveals insights into the great revolutionary’s personality and biography, leads to a night-long conversation between Derber and the ghost on important issues of the day: the economic crisis, globalization; climate change, war, racism, left- and right-wing politics, the future of capitalism, new economic models emerging in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, and revolutionary activism by citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya—even Wisconsin. The ghost reconsiders his theories as he speaks eloquently about American labor, environmental, peace, social justice, civil rights, immigrant, and gender and anti-racist struggles. Their engrossing, funny, and provocative conversation, interrupted by appearances from ghosts such as John Maynard Keynes, offers a new vision of the stunning relevance and tragic flaws of the historical Marx, who now reveals a surprising Great Transition to a transformed future. Watch this space for a review coming soon!</span></p>
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His op-eds, essays, and interviews have appeared in</span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Newsday</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Boston Globe</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Newsweek</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Business Week</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Time</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, and other magazines. He speaks frequently on</span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">National Public Radio</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, on talk radio, and on television. His internationally acclaimed books have been reviewed by </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The New York Times</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Washington Post</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Boston Globe</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px">, and many other media sources. He recently published </span><i style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;line-height:15px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy</i><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:15px"> (Paradigm 2010).</span></p>
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