[Marxism] June 18 NYC:

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LEFT FORUM AND THE NATION
In collaboration with the Center for the Study of
Culture, Technology and Work
PRESENT:

CAN PROGRESSIVES MOVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO THE
LEFT?
A debate between Stanley Aronowitz and Laura Flanders

Monday June 18 , 7pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall
365 5th Avenue at 34th St., New York City

 
Stanley Aronowitz, author of Left Turn: Forging a New
Political Future (Paradigm Publishers, 2006), and
Laura Flanders, author of Blue Grit: True Democrats
Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin
Press, 2007), will discuss and debate the
possibilities and limitations of working within the
Democratic party. Gary Younge, correspondent for The
Guardian and contributor to The Nation will moderate.

$5 to $10 admission, ticketing at the door (no advance
sales)

Information: 212-817-2003 or leftforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

STANLEY ARONOWITZ is Distinguished Professor of
Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center, where he is
Director of The Center for the Study of Culture,
Technology and Work. He is Founding Editor of Social
Text and Situations, was Book Review Editor of Social
Policy, and serves on the Editorial Board of
Ethnography; Cultural Critique. He has authored and
edited 24 books, the most recent being Left Turn:
Forging a New Political Future (2006).

LAURA FLANDERS is the host of "RadioNation" heard on
Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial
affiliates nationwide. She is the author most recently
of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from
the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also
BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004),
an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's
Cabinet.

GARY YOUNGE is a columnist and correspondent for The
Guardian and the Alfred Knobler fellow for The Nation.
He has written extensively from Southern Africa and
throughout Europe, and is author of No Place Like
Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South
(1999), and, most recently, of Stranger in a Strange
Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (2006).

Stanley Aronowitz, Laura Flanders and Gary Younge will
be signing their books after the discussion.


 
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