News & Events

February 1, 2007

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Carl Young, Interim Director of Communications
425.352.8256
cyoung@cascadia.edu

Dr. Michael Parenti to Discuss "Culture and Class Power" at Cascadia Community College

Bothell, WA - Dr. Michael Parenti, political scientist, historian, and socialist scholar will give a public presentation on "Culture and Class Power" at Cascadia Community College. The talk, which is free of charge and open to the public, will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 1:30pm in room 005 of building UW2 on the campus shared by Cascadia Community College and University of Washington Bothell.

Writer and scholar Cornell West calls Michael Parenti a "towering prophetic voice in American life" adding that "[w]e need him now more than ever." Dr. Parenti is a graduate of Yale University, and has authored more than twenty books. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: a Peoples History of Rome­ was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and chosen as "Book of the Year" (2004) by the Online Review of Books.

Dr. Parenti’s most recent book, The Culture Struggle, is about the role culture plays in social power and political struggle. Parenti has lectured throughout the United States and abroad to enthusiastic audiences on such issues as: imperialism, empire, U.S. foreign policy, class and class struggle, democracy and wealth, and the history of Western interventionism.

Dr. Parenti’s visit is sponsored by the Theory/Politics/Critique (TPC) Collective, a Cascadia Community College student club, and Cascadia Student Government (CSG). For more information about this event contact Brian Ganter at bganter@cascadia.edu or Gunnstein Raknes gunnsteinraknes@student.cascadia.edu.

Campus directions available on-line at www.cascadia.edu or by phone at (425) 352-8000.

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