Marjorie Cohn President, National Lawyers Guild; Professor Thomas Jefferson School of Law, author Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
Dahr Jamail Author of The Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq
Sonali Kolhatkar Co-founder of Afghan Women's Mission; host of "Uprising Radio," and author of Bleeding Afghanistan
Stephen Rohde Constitutional lawyer, former President of the ACLU of Southern California, founder of ICUJP
September 19, 2009 - Glendale College (Glendale, California), 76 minutes (DVD). Click here to view a video trailer. Dr. Gar Alperovitz spoke on the topic of his latest book, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. Dr. Alperovitz is a Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, a Founding Principal of The Democracy Collaborative, and former Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard and King's College of Cambridge University. He has served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. His numerous articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to The Journal of Economic Issues, Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History, and other academic and popular journals. Dr. Alperovitz is also author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, published in 1995, and the 2002 book, Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio).
America Beyond Capitalism
