The 7th Annual Ric Pfeffer Lecture Presents

Arun Gupta:

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE NEW DEPRESSION

* How global capitalism's tremors match the waning of US hegemony
* How neoliberal policies led to cascading economic disasters
* What deeper crises neoliberals failed to stave off
* What to fear and hope for in the aftermath of the crisis

Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7-9 p.m.

2640 Space / Red Emma's
2640 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD

Arun Gupta has been an editor of The Indypendent (New York) since 2000 and was an editor of The Guardian (New York) from 1989-1992. He was active in the anti-apartheid divestment and Central America solidarity movements in the 1980s and studied philosophy, history and mathematics at the University of Maryland. He is currently writing a book on the decline of U.S. hegemony.

Ric Pfeffer, in whose honor this lecture series was established, worked as a lawyer with OSHA at the Department of Labor, where he made notable contributions to worker safety. At the time of his retirement due to illness, he was developing a standard that would have established a single universal process for managing and monitoring worker health and safety in all of the nation's workplaces—a project long supported by the labor movement.

The Ric Pfeffer Lecture is a program of Research Associates Foundation. To make a tax deductible contribution to the Ric Pfeffer Lecture, send a check payable to "Research Associates Foundation" and mail to Research Associates Foundation, P.O. Box 39448, Baltimore, MD 21212.

Information: 410.466.7344 or Pfefferlecture-AT-gmail.com

Recent article by Arun Gupta:
www.indypendent.org/2009/03/19/the-great-unraveling/