End the Day of Action/Unity Rally with a lecture by Gar Alperovitz

December 3rd, 2011 · · Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series 4 comments

The Day of Action/ Unity Rally is TODAY! (Twitter #99Unity). Occupy Boston is working closely with community groups and activists to create an event that both celebrates diversity and unity in the struggle for the 99% (Schedule here). As part of the Day of Action, the Free School University Economics Forum, Dollar and Sense Magazine, and the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series present:

 

Gary Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism

 When they say, “there’s no alternative…”

Saturday, December 3, 2011, 6:00 p.m at Encuentro 5, a short walk from Dewey Square.  As discontent with the economic and political status quo mounts in the wake of the “great recession”, America Beyond Capitalism is a book whose time has come. Gar Alperovitz’s expert diagnosis of the long-term structural crisis of the American economic and political system is accompanied by detailed, practical answers to the problems we face as a society. Unlike many books that reserve a few pages of a concluding chapter to offer generalized, tentative solutions, Alperovitz marshals years of research into emerging “new economy” strategies to present a comprehensive picture of practical bottom-up efforts currently underway in thousands of communities across the United States. All democratize wealth and empower communities, not corporations: worker-ownership, cooperatives, community land trusts, social enterprises, along with many supporting municipal, state and longer term federal strategies as well. America Beyond Capitalism is a call to arms, an eminently practical roadmap for laying foundations to change a faltering system that increasingly fails to sustain the great American values of equality, liberty and meaningful democracy.

Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of numerous books, including Unjust Deserts (with Lew Daly), Making a Place For Community (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio), Rebuilding America (with Jeff Faux) and, in connection with foreign policy, Atomic Diplomacy and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.