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Teach-In and Book Signing: An Evening with Greg Palast Co-sponsored by B-HEARD and Red Emma's
Friday Dec 9, 7PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
Tonight, Baltimore Higher Education for a Real Democracy (B-HEARD) and Red Emma's proudly co-sponsor a teach-in by Greg Palast! Best known as the investigative reporter who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida voters rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election, Palast authored the New York Times and international bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse. His latest book, Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators, is the pulp non-fiction story of British Petroleum bag men, CIA operatives, nuclear power con men—and "The Vultures," billionaire financial speculators who, through bribery, flim-flam and political muscle, take entire nations hostage for mega-profits. Join us tonight for the inside scoop on the nefarious doings of banks like Goldman-Sachs and the white collar criminal class! 7 - 10 pm, free, donations welcome!
More about Greg Palast: having directed the US' government's largest racketeering case in history (that garnered a $4.3 billion jury award) and the investigation of the Exxon Valdez, Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. "A cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes" (Jim Hightower, The Nation), Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper's. He is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.
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