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<DIV align=center><B>Dennis Brutus and </B><B>Patrick Bond<BR> </B></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>Imperialism, Subimperialism </B><B>and </B></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>Popular Resistance </B><B>in South Africa</B></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>The Brecht Forum<BR>451 West Street (new location)<BR>May 23,
7-9 pm<BR>Brutus and Bond will present new books, provide updates on the
reparations movement, and show recent video footage of rebellion and
repression<BR> <BR> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>DENNIS BRUTUS</B><BR>Brutus turned 80 last November, but
has not paused even momentarily. Early 2005 saw him moving between activist
events in Pittsburgh (where he is professor emeritus), Johannesburg, Boulder,
Malta, Bandung and San Francisco. With Jubilee South Africa, he recently
initiated the launch of a campaign against Barclays Bank, demanding reparations
for vast apartheid profits.<BR>One of the first South African poets to be widely
read in Europe and the U.S., Brutus’ work found early critical acclaim. His
first book,<I> Letters to Martha</I>, was published while he was imprisoned for
defying a ‘banning’ order by the apartheid government following his campaign to
desegregate the South African Olympic team.<BR>After being shot in the back by
Johannesburg police during an escape attempt and breaking rocks for 18 months at
the notorious Robben Island prison alongside Nelson Mandela, Brutus was exiled,
and resumed simultaneous careers as a poet and anti-apartheid campaigner. He was
instrumental in achieving the apartheid regime’s expulsion from the Olympics,
won numerous awards for poetry, and helped organize key African writers’
organizations with Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe.<BR>Upon moving to the U.S.,
Brutus served in several academic positions, including at Northwestern
University and the University of Pittsburgh, defeating efforts by the Reagan
Administration to deport him. Following the transition to democracy in South
Africa, Brutus remained active with grassroots social movements in his home
country and internationally. In the late 1990s he became a pivotal figure in the
global justice movement and a featured speaker each year at the World Social
Forum. In the anti-racism, reparations and economic justice movements, he
continues to serve as a leading strategist, working closely with the Center for
Economic Justice, 50 Years is Enough!, and the Jubilee anti-debt movement. In
South Africa, he is a key figure in the Social Movements Indaba, the coalition
of progressive activists who marched more than 25 000 people against the World
Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. Brutus’ latest book is<I>
Leafdrift</I> (Whirlwind Press, Camden, 2005).<BR></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><B>PATRICK BOND</B><BR>Bond is professor of development
studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, and directs the Centre for
Civil Society - <?xml:namespace prefix = p ns =
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href="">http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs</A>. He is a ZNet monthly commentator and
author/editor of three new books:<BR></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>ELITE TRANSITION:</B></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>FROM APARTHEID TO NEOLIBERALISM IN SOUTH
AFRICA</B><BR>(Second edition, May 2005, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Press)<BR>Elite Transition is a seminal accounting of compromises and struggles
in post-apartheid South Africa. Combining original documentation, insider
anecdotes and theoretical insights, Patrick Bond dissects a range of
socio-economic continuities from old to new South Africa. He deploys
political-economic analysis and draws upon case studies such as social
contracts, black economic empowerment, housing, the Reconstruction and
Development Programme, international financial influence, and corporate
power.<BR>The original edition provided a powerful analysis of South Africa’s
first years of democracy and an optimistic account of potentials that still
exist for a progressive, grassroots resurgence of the liberation spirit. The
updated edition includes a lengthy Afterword which maintains a scorching
critique of elitist politics and economics. Most importantly, perhaps, the book
provides context for the upsurge in popular protest against the government's
neoliberal policies since 2000.<BR></DIV>
<DIV align=center>‘an essential and invaluable contribution… great freshness and
richess of detail’ -<I> Mail and Guardian</I></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><B>FANON'S WARNING:</B></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>A CIVIL SOCIETY READER ON THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S
DEVELOPMENT</B><BR>(Second edition, April 2005, Africa World Press, UKZN CCS and
AIDC)<BR> Is the New Partnership for Africa’s Development a genuine
blueprint for Africa’s recovery?<BR>If so, why did the US State Department
describe it as ‘philosophically spot-on’, and why is it celebrated at the
Bretton Woods Institutions and Davos World Economic Forum?<I> Fanon’s
Warning</I> reproduces seminal commentaries dating to Nepad’s 2001-02 inception,
by major social movements, trade unions, intellectuals and other opinion
leaders, including enthusiastic advocates of Nepad. It includes the original
Nepad text and a paragraph-by-paragraph annotated analysis. This second edition
contains a major new Afterword essay, updating Nepad’s politics and economics
through late 2004.<BR></DIV>
<DIV align=center>‘A bold, piercing critique… a splendid ensemble of diverse
articles, statements and commentaries by civil society groups, intellectuals,
analysts and policy-makers on Nepad. The editor highlights the volume with a
closely argued, theoretically rich, and nuanced introduction… an acerbic
attack on the policies of Thabo Mbeki and his advisers.’ -<I> African
Affairs</I><BR> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>TALK LEFT, WALK RIGHT:</B></DIV>
<DIV align=center><B>SOUTH AFRICA'S FRUSTRATED GLOBAL REFORMS</B><BR>(April
2004, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)<BR>Between incomparable drawings by
Zapiro, Patrick Bond considers the dynamics of international political economy
and geopolitics.He reviews a series of contemporary examples where Pretoria is
frustrated by unfavourable power relations: US unilateralism and milit ism, the
UN's World Conference Against Racism and reparations for apartheid profits,
soured trade deals, stingy debt relief and counterproductive international
financial flows, unsuccessful reform of multilateral institutions, the New
Partnership for Africa's Development, the Johannesburg World Summit on
Sustainable Development and the World Water Forum.</DIV>
<DIV align=center><BR>'Thanks to Patrick Bond's analytical skills and brilliant
cartoons by Zapiro, the book Talk Left, Walk Right allows global justice
activists to decode rhetoric and reality: from Washington and Davos conferences
to the South African townships. Mbeki and the ANC are not hapless victims, but
are deeply implicated in promoting faraway ideologies and unaccountable powers.‘
-- Njoki Njoroge Njehu, director, 50 Years is Enough! Network, Washington
DC<BR></DIV>
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