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<b style="font-size:x-small">P R E S E N T S </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:15.199999809265137px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><span style="font-size:22pt"><font face="arial black, sans-serif" color="#cc0000">Corruption and Capitalism </font></span></div>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">A T A L K B Y</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><b style="font-size:large;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Anu Mohammad</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">Professor of Economics, Dhaka, Bangladesh</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center">
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Professor of Neuropsychology, Lesley University, Boston</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:15.199999809265137px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center">
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<br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:bold"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="display:inline!important">The gigantic fire that claimed the lives of 300 workers in Karachi, Pakistan this September is not an anomaly but the inevitable consequence of a production environment shaped by intense pressure from global markets and where workers have near non-existent negotiation powers. Professors Saleem and Muhammad will discuss the corrupt collusion of the state and global capitfrom the garments industry to open-pit coal mining and offshore oil exploration.</div>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="1">Professor Rakshanda Saleem, is a member of The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia in <u></u><u></u>Cambridge<u></u>, <u></u>MA<u></u><u></u>. Professor Anu Muhammad is one of the leading activists in <u></u><u></u>Bangladesh organizing on the ground against ever intensifying neo-liberal projects such as open pit coal mining on rich agricultural land.</font><span style="font-size:9pt"><u></u><u></u></span></font></div>
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