Politics in the Age of Scarcity Words UW Havens Center seminar: "Do Americans Hate Politics & Love Shopping?" by journalist Liza Featherstone, 4 pm, 3/16, Social Science Bldg., Room 8411; "The Crisis is Over: What Next?" by Left Business Observer publisher Doug Henwod, 4 pm, 3/17, Social Science Bldg., Room 8417; open seminar, 12:20 pm, 3/18, Social Sciences Bldg, Room 8108. Free; all welcome. www.havenscenter.org. 262-0854
When: 03/16/10 Call: 262-0854 Web: www.havenscenter.org Email: pbarrett at ssc.wisc.edu
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Liza Featherstone & Doug Henwood
The Nation, Left Business Observer LIZA FEATHERSTONE: "Do Americans Hate Politics and Love Shopping?" Tuesday, March 16, 4 pm, 8411 Social Science DOUG HENWOOD: "The Crisis is Over: What Next?" Wednesday, March 17, 4pm, 8417 Social Science FEATHERSTONE & HENWOOD: Open Seminar for Students, Faculty and Public Thursday, March 18, 12:20 pm, 8108 Social Science
LIZA FEATHERSTONE is a contributing writer to The Nation magazine. She also writes for Slate, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and many other publications, and is the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004), and co-author of Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002). Featherstone has been a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University, and now teaches at City University of New York and New York University. She is married to the journalist Doug Henwood, and is an editor on his newsletter, Left Business Observer. The couple lives in Brooklyn with their four-year- old son, Ivan.
DOUG HENWOOD is editor and publisher of Left Business Observer, which he founded in September 1986. Convinced that the 1980s experiment with free-market economics was a financial and social disaster and that much "left" writing on economics was usually dry and dated, Henwood decided that there was room for a newsletter addressing both these deficiencies. Almost from the first issue, the newsletter was a critical success. LBO covers economics and politics in the broadest sense. Recent and persisting obsessions include the meaning of Bushism; income distribution and poverty in the U.S. and elsewhere in the First World; the globalization of finance and production; the worldwide attack on pensions; the 1990s boom and its gloomy aftermath; the economics of energy. Every issue includes a report on the world's financial markets and central banks. Besides editing LBO, Henwood is a contributing editor of The Nation, and hosts a radio weekly program on WBAI (New York). His book Wall Street was published by Verso in June 1997; it went out of print in 2005 and is now available for free download. His social atlas of the U.S. (in the Pluto atlas series), The State of the USA, was published by Simon & Schuster in the fall of 1994. His latest effort, After the New Economy, was published in late 2003 by The New Press. He's now in the early stages of a book on the current American ruling class, whoever that might be.