[Peace] Harvey will discuss urban inequalities and urban revolts / Thursday, Nov. 8 / 7pm / Foelinger Auditorium

[Karen Medina]

"Revolution" Lecture with David Harvey!
> Harvey will discuss urban inequalities and urban revolts past and present, including the Paris Commune of 1871 in which the working class of an isolated Paris seized control of the city and created a new type of government with workers' wages for officials and short terms that allowed leaders to be easily voted out of office.
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> The French government rallied, retook the city and summarily killed something in the neighborhood of 25,000 people in the following "Bloody Week" but their hope lives on in the inspiration they have given to revolutionary socialists ever since.


Today, Thursday, November 8, 2012
7:00pm
Foellinger Auditorium
709 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, Illinois 61801

David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York (CUNY). A leading geographer and anthropologist, he is
currently among the top 20 most cited authors in the humanities.

Moreover, throughout his whole career in academia, Harvey has been a
consistent and unrepentant supporter of the causes of the poor and the
marginalized by capitalist development.

With more than 40 years teaching Karl Marx’s Capital, Harvey has
developed one of the best introductions to Marxist social thought.
Check out http://davidharvey.org/ for a series of video-lectures!

Our meeting and discussion for this week will be attending David
Harvey's lecture! We'll gather at 6:45ish at the doors of Foellinger
and distribute information about the looming GEO strike, and signing
people up for our regional Marxism Conference (this Saturday!)