From: wipeltz@aol.com
Date: Sat Apr 20 2002 - 17:32:56 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/02 4:08:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dreier@oxy.edu
writes:
<< Writer and activist Barbara Garson has written a new book, MONEY MAKES THE
WORLD GO ROUND, about the global economy that is attracting a lot of
attention among fair trade and anti-sweatshop activists. Information about
the book (with blurbs from Howard Zinn and others) and about Barbara Garson
is attached. She'd like to come to California for a speaking tour next fall,
which could help support various struggles. Occidental College is willing to
be part of a speaking tour if other institutions are willing to participate.
If you are interested, please contact her at: bagarson@yahoo.com. Please
forward this to anyone else who might be interested. Thanks.
Peter Dreier
Occidental College >>
I'd like to add a testimonial from Albany NY. SUNY-Albany brought Barbara
Garson here for 3 days, with classroom appearances at Union College and
SUNY-A, a talk-and-panel-discussion at SUNY-A, and a talk at a Labor-Religion
breakfast. Based on the two talks I heard, she's an engaging person and
speaker - both entertaining and informative (as is her book), and she fields
questions well.
She follows the trail of her money through institutional channels and into
projects that directly affect people and their environments. Along the way,
she provides necessary background information about things like the Federal
Reserve, Fed Funds, the IMF, corporate and mutual fund strategies, and
currency flows, so that someone new to the subject can understand some of the
major hows and whys of the system. So the book functions as a primer on the
global economy while maintaining a lively journalistic/ethnographic focus on
real people and places. I think that readers and listeners tend to come
away with the view that there's a warped dynamic at work, caused by money
being always frantically on the move and desperate to find employment to meet
its own short-term needs.
At our Labor-Religion breakfast, we had as guests a class of high school
seniors in a special business management/finance program - a rather
conservative bunch of young students. Their teacher said later that they all
found Barbara Garson to be interesting and informative, although some of them
were in basic disagreement about any systematic criticism of our corporate
economy. I judge from that that she is quite effective with a pretty wide
range of audiences - she brings new insights to folks like us, and she makes
definite inroads into the consciousness (and conscience) of those who are
disinclined to agree with us.
Bill Peltz/Albany NY
Coordinator, Capital District Labor-Religion Coalition
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