A Celebration and a Discussion with Author Mickey Zezima, aka "Mickey Z"
7:30pm Wednesday, July 26th The Brecht Forum 122 W. 27th St. 10th Fl. ( 212 ) 242- 4201
Join Stanley Aronowitz, Sander Hicks, Seth Tobocman & Mickey Zezima!
Saving Private Power, a provocative history of the "Good War," questions the ultra- patriotic assumptions we have been taught since birth.
Author Michael Zezima makes the case that the U.S did not enter WWII to stop fascism or to make the world a safer place. To the contrary, the U.S. business class traded with Hitler and Mussolini up to and even during the war. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh's public Hitlerphilia were symbolic of big business's admiration for Hitler's anti-communism.
Stanley Aronowitz, author of The Death & Rebirth of American Radicalism, teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. Sander Hicks is editor of the award-winning and radical Soft Skull Press. Seth Tobocman is a radical comic artist and author of You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive and War in the Neighborhood. Michael Zezima, aka Mickey Z, has worked as editor-in-chief of Curio magazine. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Z Magazine, In These Times, Street News and other publications.
This event is also a fund raiser for the striking employees of the Museum of Modern Art. After the panel, the Solidarity Singers of the AFL-CIO, as well as punk popsters White Collar Crime, will take the stage to finish the night off with songs of struggle and prophetic demand.
Also appearing that night will be Foamola, the band fronted by socialist presidential candidate and poet Sparrow. Also, Steve Colman, recent co-author of Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Café National Slam Champions.
-- SANDER HICKS EDITORIAL
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