The Anti-War and Anti-Capitalist Movements

Tuesday, January 7 at 7 p.m.

Progressive Action Center,
1443 Gorsuch Ave (at Kirk)
South of 33rd St and east of Greenmount Ave.

Organized by Left Turn

Jonathan Neale, author of "You Are G8, We Are 6 Billion: The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests" and active member of Globalise Resistance and the Socialist Workers Party in Britain, will talk about the state of the resistance to globalization and war in Europe.

Jonathan was born in New York and lives in Britain. Since January 2001 he has been a spokesman and organizer for Globalise Resistance, an anti-capitalist group in Britain. He was one of three delegates from Britain to the Genoa Social Forum, the body that organized the protests.

He has written eleven plays, three novels and four non-fiction books. His most recent books are The Naked Mountain, about Sherpa climbers, (St Martins, March 2002); Lost At Sea, a children's novel, (Houghton Mifflin,
March 2002); and The American War: Vietnam (Bookmarks, 2000).

Jonathan lived in India for three years of his childhood, and in 1971-1973 did anthropological fieldwork with nomads in Afghanistan. In 1997 he spent three months teaching English in the school in an indigenous Pemon community in Venezuela, and wrote a play for children in England based on one of their myths. Recently he spent thirteen months in Nepal and India researching a history of Sherpa climbers. Jonathan has also traveled extensively in Polynesia, Turkey and Africa, and has a PhD in social history from Warwick University.