Haymarket Books presents
FIRE THE BOSS:
The Worker Control Solution from Buenos Aires to Chicago
with the authors and editors of
Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories: lavaca collective, foreword by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (Haymarket Books).
May 15, 2009
7 pm
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
New York City, New York
free (seating is first come, first served)
An evening with:
Naomi Klein, author of
The Shock Doctrine and
No Logo, writer of
The Take
Avi Lewis, director of
The Take and host, Al Jazeera English "Fault Lines"
Claudia Acuña and Sergio Ciancaglini of lavaca collective in Argentina
Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de Republic Windows (Chicago, Illinois)
Leah Fried, United Electrical workers union
Brendan Martin, The Working World/La Base
Including a discussion, with clips of The Take by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and selections from a documentary about The Republic Workers' struggle
Translation provided for Spanish speakers
Followed by a book signing
Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union, The Indypendent, UE (United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America), Nation Institute, Nation Magazine, and The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).
To find out more about the event, please visit
http://www.haymarketbooks.org
directions:
Cooper Union Great Hall. 7 East 7th Street New York City, New York 10003
between Third Avenue and Cooper Square (just south of Fourth Avenue)
6 train to Astor Place
R, W to 8th Street - NYU