<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>event for new yorkers</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <TT>Christian Parenti Book Presentation: THE SOFT CAGE 11/12/03 Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror Wednesday, November 12, 7pm Winston Unity Center 235 West 23rd St. NYC Between 7th and 8th ave. Contribution - $3. No one turned away ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Description: The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slave Passes to the War on Terror From the popular historian and journalist Christian Parenti, a vivid and chilling history of surveillance in American life-from the antebellum South to the computerized landscape of the futuristic present. The Soft Cage is the first book to detail the continuum of surveillance in the making of the United States-from the slave pass to the Social Security number all the way to the many forms of computerized monitoring now shaping the post-9/11 world. The Soft Cage explores not just the history but also the politics of everyday surveillance, and explains to readers why the question of who is watching and listening is of utmost importance today. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Parenti exposes the threat to individual privacy posed by government efforts to maintain security and corporate efforts to gather market research.... Parenti overlays analysis of class and race with concerns about surveillance of individuals to produce an absorbing look at how we are being watched, observed, and analyzed, with implications beyond concerns for privacy rights. " -- Booklist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Parenti is the author of Lockdown America. His writing appears regularly in The Nation, The San Diego Union Tribune, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics and is currently a Soros Senior Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center. He lives in Brooklyn. </TT> </BODY> </HTML>