<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The AWARE group who’ve been reading CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY over the summer will conclude with a final meeting on Wednesday 26 August at 6pm at 5 Litchfield Lane, Champaign. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Members and friends of AWARE are invited to attend and participate in the discussion, even if they haven’t yet read Thomas Piketty’s important book. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Beginning in September, the group will consider two texts,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~ "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” (2014) by Naomi Klein; and </div><div class="">~ "Laudato si': On care for our common home” (2015) by Francis, bishop of Rome. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Klein’s book is in the bookstores and libraries, and the pope’s encyclical is available in its entirety in several places online, e.g. </div><div class=""><<a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html" class="">http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html</a>>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The first meeting to consider the works by Frank and Naomi (his new bff) will be a month from today, Wednesday 23 September at 6pm at 5 Litchfield Lane, Champaign. I’ll send out a reminder.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>