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David Graeber - West Coast Speaking Tour, January 2012
Posted Monday January 9th by Jen Angel
As we posted earlier, we have been working a bit with Melville House on helping to publicize David Graeber's book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. It has been getting amazing press, and now David will be speaking at schools and bookstores on the West Coast in January! Mark your calendars!
Tuesday, January 24, 4:30 pm - Portland, Oregon: Reed College, Room: Psych 105
Tuesday, January 24, 8 pm - Portland, Oregon: Alberta Rose Theater, sponsored by Reading Frenzy
Wednesday, January 25, 7 pm - Seattle, Washington: Elliott Bay Books
Thursday, January 26 - San Francisco CA: City Lights Books (with Rebecca Solnit), details TBA
Friday, January 27, 12 pm - San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Art Institute
Saturday, January 28, 4 pm - Corte Madera, CA: Book Passage
Monday, January 30 - San Francisco, CA: California Institute of Integral Studies
Tuesday, January 31, 1 pm - Mountainview, CA: Google Authors Program
Tuesday, January 31, 6:30 pm - San Francisco, CA: University of San Francisco
Wednesday, February 1, 7:30 pm - Los Angeles, CA: Skylight Books
Here's a clip from the Nov 11 review in the New York Times:
“Graeber’s most important contribution to the movement may owe less to his activism as an anarchist than to his background as an anthropologist. His recent book DEBT: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House, $32) reads like a lengthy field report on the state of our economic and moral disrepair. In the best tradition of anthropology, Graeber treats debt ceilings, subprime mortgages and credit default swaps as if they were the exotic practices of some self-destructive tribe. Written in a brash, engaging style, the book is also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of debt — where it came from and how it evolved. Graeber’s claim is that the past 400 years of Western history represent a grievous departure from how human societies have traditionally thought about our obligations to one another. What makes the work more than a screed is its intricate examination of societies from ancient Mesopotamia to 1990s Madagascar, and thinkers ranging from Rabelais to
Nietzsche — and to George W. Bush’s brother Neil.”
—Thomas Meaney, New York Times Book Review (Read the whole article)
San Francisco Social Media for Social Justice: Intensive Workshop with Deanna Zandt - March 5, 2012
Posted Wednesday January 4th by Jen Angel
San Francisco Social Media for Social Justice: Intensive Workshop with Deanna Zandt - March 5, 2012 You know about social media. You know that you've got to get on board with it for your organization, or for your own activist work. You may have even signed up for Twitter or Facebook already, but you don't know where to start. What […] Keep reading
This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement
Posted Saturday November 19th by Jen Angel
With the Occupy movement being just over two months old, Yes Magazine has come out with the first substantive book! Called This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, the book includes original/exclusive material as well as some of the best existing pieces on where this movement came from, what it means, and where it is going. Along […] Keep reading
