Wednesday, May 26 7:30 pm The Brecht Forum, 122 West 27th Street, New York
Laura Flanders is one of the most successful left/feminist journalists working in the US today -- her work shows that it is possible for progressive perspectives to find a wide audience, even in the age of Murdoch and Fox News. Join us for a conversation about her new book...
>From the workplace to the war zone, the Bush administration has wrapped
female-friendly rhetoric around some of the most hard-core policy since
Ronald Reagan. Some well-placed women have helped to pull off that con job.
Invaluable to the president, underscrutinized in the press, the
Bushwomen‹the women appointed to the inner circle of the president's cabinet
and sub-cabinet‹are cast in the public mind as moderate, malleable,
maverick, irrelevant or benign. Their carefully crafted images tap into
stereotypes, while the reality of their records has remained out of
sight...until now.
Laura Flanders reveals the cynical crusade to put a female face on
anti-feminist policy. She investigates Bush's women, and reports on how they
rose to power and what they've done. She examines why Chevron named a tanker
after National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; how financial ties to big
tobacco corporations got Secretary of the Interior Gale Ann Norton dubbed
"The Woman from Marlboro Country"; how Labor Secretary Elaine Chao bullied
union longshoreworkers to benefit her trading-with-China family and friends.
The host of "The Laura Flanders Show" on Air America Radio, a lively attempt to reclaim the airwaves from ClearChannel, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, she's also the host of ³Your Call,² heard weekdays on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco and on the internet. She writes regularly for Tompaine.com, The Nation, Ms. Magazine and Znet. Her op-ed pieces have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle.
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