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Re: [KPFA General] Two Great Events Coming in April! (fwd)
- To: noelle
- Subject: Re: [KPFA General] Two Great Events Coming in April! (fwd)
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:11:58 -0700
- Keywords: my-Oakland-voicemail-number
Does this mean you like Prins and Taibbi?
> From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 07:05:07 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:19:37 -0700
> > From: http://www.lists.kpfa.org/~kpfa-general
> >
> > 2 young writers, already great, coming in April!
> >
> > KPFA Radio presents:
> >
> > MATT TAIBBI
> > "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap"
> >
> > Hosted by Don Goldmacher
> > Saturday, April 12, 7:30 pm
> > First Congregational Church of
> > 2345 Channing Way,
> > $12 advance tickets:
> > http://www.brownpapertickets.com
> > ,http://www.brownpapertickets.com, :: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books
> > (3 locations), Marcus Books, Mrs. Dalloway's, Moe's Books, Walden
> > Pond,
> > DIESEL a Bookstore. SF: Modern Times ($15 door)
> > Info: http://www.kpfa.org ,http://www.kpfa.org, /events
> > KPFA benefit
> >
> > >From the award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling
> > >author of
> > The Great Derangement and Griftopia comes another devastating
> > portrait of
> > American values in our polarized age, a galvanizing exploration of
> > how our
> > growing wealth gap is not just warping our economy, but
> > transforming the
> > meaning of rights, justice, and basic citizenship. Rolling Stone's
> > Matt
> > Taibbi has become one of the most essential and widely read
> > journalists in
> > America. Ezra Klein in The Washington Post called his work an "
> > almost
> > startling reminder of the power of good writing."
> >
> > THE DIVIDE: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap is
> > a probing
> > investigation of one of the most pressing issues facing us today:
> > the
> > increasing wealth gap and how it is affecting our system of
> > justice. "The
> > Divide," reveals our two most troubling trends - enormous wealth
> > inequality
> > on one hand and an increasingly punitive, intrusive state on the
> > other,
> > resulting in our basic rights now being determined by our wealth
> > or
> > poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by
> > the
> > hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a
> > crime.
> >
> > Matt Taibbi, until very recently a contributing editor at Rolling
> > Stone,
> > won a National Magazine Award for his reporting on the 2008
> > presidential
> > election, and was a finalist for his coverage of Occupy Wall
> > Street. The
> > author of two New York Times bestsellers, Taibbi has just joined
> > Pierre
> > Omidyar's group of original, independent journalists (along with
> > Glen
> > Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill).
> >
> > Donald Goldmacher, Producer/Director of Heist: Who Stole the
> > American
> > Dream?, is a longtime filmmaker, labor activist, and community
> > psychiatrist
> > with decades of experience. His first film, "Do No Harm,"
> > exposed the
> > controversial marketing and research practices of the pharmaceutical
> > industry. His recent feature documentary "Ruthie and Connie: Every
> > Room in
> > the House", won over 20 festival awards and aired on HBO and
> > television
> > around the world.
> >
> > ###
> >
> > KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents:
> >
> > NOMI PRINS
> > ALL THE PRESIDENTS' BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances that Drive
> > American Power
> > Published by Nation Books/Perseus Books
> >
> > Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert
> > Monday, April 21, 7:30 pm
> > The Hillside Club
> > 2286 Cedar Street,
> > $12 advance tickets:
> > http://www.brownpapertickets.com
> > ,http://www.brownpapertickets.com, :: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus
> > Books (3 locations), Moe's, Walden Pond, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs.
> > Dalloway's Books, SF - Modern Times $15 /door
> > KPFA benefit
> > Info: http://www.kpfa.org ,http://www.kpfa.org, /events
> >
> > "Prins is a born story-teller. She turns the history of the
> > moneyed class
> > into a breathless, page-turning romance--the tawdry affairs of
> > bankers and
> > the presidents who love them. It's brilliant inside stuff on
> > unforgettable,
> > and unforgivable, scoundrels." - Greg Palast, investigative writer
> > for BBC
> > TV
> >
> > "The relationship between Washington and Wall Street isn't really
> > a
> > revolving door. It's a merry-go-round. As Prins shows, the
> > merriest of all
> > are the bankers and financiers that get rich off the relationship,
> > using
> > their public offices and access to build private wealth and
> > power.
> > Disturbing and important." -- Robert Reich
> >
> > "Nomi Prins follows the money. She used to work on Wall Street.
> > And now she
> > has written a seminal history of America's bankers and their
> > symbiotic
> > relationship with all the presidents from Teddy Roosevelt through
> > Barack
> > Obama. It is an astonishing tale." -- Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize
> > winning
> > biographer
> >
> > "All the Presidents' Bankers speaks to the raw truth today of
> > what Louis D.
> > Brandeis said a hundred years ago: "We must break the Money
> > Trust or the
> > Money Trust will break us." -- Ralph Nader
> >
> > Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow
> > at Demos.
> > She has worked as a director at Goldman-Sachs and as an analyst
> > at Bear
> > Stearns. It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and
> > Backroom
> > Deals from Washington to Wall Street, was her loudest
> > whistleblower book
> > ...so far.
> >
> > Brian Edwards-Tiekert is the co-host and co-producer on KPFA Radio'
> > s
> > morning show, Up Front, weekdays at 7 am.
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