[URPE] [NYC] 10/28 Update on "The Ravages of Empire" Talk at Cooper Union

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P L E A S E   F O R W A R D   W I D E L Y

The Brecht Forum
451 West St. (Betw Bank & Bethune)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 242- 4201
www.brechtforum.org
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***********UPDATE*************UPDATE****************UPDATE********
Due to illness Tariq Ali will join us via live video hook up from
London. We're also pleased to announce that Corlita Mahr,an organizer
from Louisiana will be joining the panel.
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Friday, October 28
8:00 pm
at COOPER UNION's GREAT HALL
3rd Ave & 7th St

  From Baghdad to New Orleans: The Ravages of Empire

Tariq Ali (via live video hook up), Bhairavi Desai, David Harvey &
Corlita Mahr

LEADING POLITICAL WRITERS AND ACTIVISTS SPEAK OUT ON THE CRISIS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, THE WAR ON TERROR,HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE EFFECTS OF THE
AMERICAN EMPIRE HOME AND ABROAD

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that is frightened
of speaking its name. Now it’s beginning to do so. In a way, it’s
better. At least today we know where we kneel.
— From Speaking of Empire and Resistance (Tariq Ali)


Corlita Mahr works with Community Labor United. CLU set up the People's
Hurricane Fund which is directed and administered by New Orleanian
evacuees. Money donated to this fund pays for activities directed at
helping the evacuees in the shelters today, reuniting and rebuilding
families tomorrow, and making sure the reconstruction of New Orleans
meets the people's needs down the road.


Tariq Ali is an editor of New Left Review, a novelist, a playwright, a
filmmaker, and the author of more than a dozen books on world history
and politics. Exiled from Pakistan in the 1960s for his activism against
the military dictatorship, Tariq Ali has gained a reputation as one of
the English-speaking world’s most forceful political thinkers, speaking
out consistently against imperialism, religious fundamentalism, and,
most recently, the misguided Anglo-American war on terror, including the
disastrous fiasco in Iraq. Ali’s most recent books, The Clash of
Fundamentalisms and Bush in Babylon, have been widely praised and read.
A prolific and eloquent writer, Ali is also a captivating
conversationalist, and Speaking of Empire and Resistance captures him at
his provocative best. This series of interviews brings together Ali’s
insights into a wide range of topics—among them the fate of modern-day
Pakistan, the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the intractable
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the state of the Islamic world, and the
continuing significance of imperialism in the twenty-first century.
Speaking of Empire and Resistance reinforces Tariq Ali’s reputation as
one of the most perceptive and engaging figures of today’s Left.

Bhairavi Desai is a co-founder and Director of the Taxi Workers
Alliance. She has been active in many organizations throughout her life,
but has been working with the taxi industry struggle since 1996, two
years before the Alliance came into being. Desai is a graduate of
Rutgers University (NJ) where she recived a degree in Women's
Studies.Both at Rutgers and outside of the university, she partcipated
in humanrights organizations. She fought against violence against women, was
part of the Cuba, Palestine, and El Salvador solidarity movements, and
was part of Manavi, a New Jersey organization that helps South Asian
women in need.


David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY
Graduate Center. He has written extensively on the political economy of
globalization, urbanization and cultural change and has taught Marx's
Capital almost every year since 1971. Among his publications are The New
Imperialism, The Limits to Capital, The Condition of Postmodernity,
Spaces of Hope, and Spaces of Capital.

Sliding scale: $10/$25/$50
A 30th Anniversary Benefit for the Brecht Forum
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