Saturday, February 11, 7:00 pm:
Robert Scheer
Award-winning columnist and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street,
Robert Scheer is editor-in-chief of the Webby Award-winning Internet magazine, Truthdig, and has built a
reputation for strong social and political writing during his 45 years as a journalist. Scheer is also co-host of the weekly political radio program
“Left, Right & Center” on NPR and a professor at the University
of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
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Free Library - Oak and Lincoln
Come at 6:30 to snack and socialize- Bring something to share
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The future at the APAF:March 10 TBA
April 14: Stephen Zunes, “Future of Democracy in the Middle East”
May 12: Prof. Dick Roman, University of Toronto, “How Bill Clinton and NAFTA screwed the American–and Mexican,
and Canadian Working Class–and got rich while doing it” New book on NAFTA available for sale.
June 9: Professor Jack Rasmus, “Obama’s Economic Plan: Recovery for the Few and Continuing Poverty and suffering for the Many.”
(New Book–published in June and available for sale at this forum.)
[For an interview with Vanessa Graber, community radio director at the Prometheus Radio Project, on Low Power radio, click HERE.]
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