Some UPDATES on the Rick Wolff event this coming Tuesday, Jan 20th. First, Ricks appearance before the Yale Political Union will be open to the public! This was a surprise as I had been led to believe that the YPL was a bit of a closed group. The YPU event will be a debate on the subject of Nationalization of Banks with Rick taking a pro-Nationalization stance. The venue is Sudler Hall in the William L. Harkness building at 100 Law Street. This is an ideal location right next to the large Yale parking lot on Temple Street, across from the New Haven main library; and a short 5 minute drive from our potluck dinner event with Rick at the Unitarian Society at 608 Whitney Ave. The time for the dinner at the UU is 5-7pm and the time for the YPU debate is 7:30pm. Please be sure to RSVP to me by this coming Friday, if you are planning to attend the dinner. The church kitchen can accommodate heating up our dinner offerings. See below for info on Rick, an interview with Bill Moyers on YouTube, and the website for Democracy at Work. ----------------------------------- Greens and Friends, Longtime, former New Haven resident and leading Marxist economist, Rick Wolff, will be making an appearance in New Haven on: Tuesday, January 20 @ 5-7 pm ---------------------------------------- at the Unitarian Universalist Church 608 Whitney Ave, in New Haven ------------------------------------------- The event will be a potluck supper. Please bring your favorite potluck dish to share. Rick will give a short talk and will be raising money for his organization, Democracy at Work. (see link below.) After the dinner, Rick will be giving a presentation to the Yale Political Union. For those who arent familiar with Ricks name, he was a Marxist economist at Yale, and a very active member of the first iteration of the New Haven Green Party in the 80s. Since his move to NYC, he has been a leading organizer of the Left Forum; has a regular program on WBAI; has appeared on a number of high-profile TV interview programs with folks such as Glen Beck, Bill Moyers, Amy Goodman, and others; and has written a number of books, such as: Capitalism Hits the Fan, (2009) Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, (2012) Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (2012) See the following article concerning some of Ricks doings, and the You Tube video of Rick with Bill Moyers (see the link below.) Also below is a link to Ricks organization, Democracy at Work. Please RSVP ASAP so we can get an idea as to how many folks to expect. -------------------------------------------------------------- Inline image 2 Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City. In 2010, Wolff published Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It, also released as a DVD. He will release three new books in 2012: Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, with David Barsamian (San Francisco: City Lights Books), Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT University Press), and Democracy at Work (Chicago: Haymarket Books). Wolff hosts the weekly hour-long radio program Economic Update on WBAI, 99.5 FM, New York City (Pacifica Radio). He writes regularly for The Guardian, Truthout.org, and the MRZine. He has been interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show, RT-TV, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera English, Thom Hartman, National Public Radio, Alternative Radio, and many other radio and TV programs in the United States and abroad. The New York Times Magazine named him “America’s most prominent Marxist
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