Announcement

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Baltimore's Indypendent Reader has two amazing reasons to celebrate. Firstly, we are releasing our first national issue. This issue documents The City from Below Conference. The conference took place right here in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27-29, 2009. As sponsors, we were much more than simply delighted when The City from Below Conference turned out to be an incredible success!

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Aware and Outraged: Silence is For Suckers
An Evening with Ron Kipling Williams

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 8pm.

$5 Donation

Hamilton Art Gallery
2927 Hamilton Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21214

A Portion of the Proceeds Will Go to Support the Hamilton Arts Collective

Join award winning performance artist, journalist and community activist Ron Kipling Williams for an evening of radical spoken word performance.

Williams blends almost twenty years of performance and activism to give his

THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE NEW DEPRESSION
o How global capitalism's tremors match the waning of US hegemony
o How neoliberal policies led to cascading economic disasters
o What deeper crises neoliberals failed to stave off
o What to fear and hope for in the aftermath of the crisis

Sunday, April 5, 2009, 7-9 p.m.

2640 Space / Red Emma's
2640 St. Paul Street
Arun Gupta has been an editor of The Indypendent (New York) since 2000 and
was an editor of The Guardian (New York) from 1989-1992. He was active in

KEVIN FUNK and STEVEN FAKE are co-authors of the forthcoming book, The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA, to be released in October 2008 by Black Rose Books.
They are activists and political commentators whose writings have been published in such media as Foreign Policy in Focus, Common Dreams, CounterPunch, ZNet, and Black Commentator; they have been interviewed on Sirius Radio and other outlets. More info on the book and authors: http://www.scrambleforafrica.org/main/