Friday, July 31, 2009

Watch or Listen to Cornel West and Carl Dix


Watch or Listen to the ground-breaking Dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix on The Ascendancy of Obama... and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation.
AVAILABLE at the Revolution Books NYC website:
www.revolutionbooksnyc.org
Also, Listen to the nationally broadcast interview with Carl Dix and Cornel West on Democracy NOW, July 22 with Amy Goodman, http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/22/cornel_west_and_carl_dix_on

Cornel West and Carl Dix will break the silence and address from their different philosophical perspectives what the election of Obama really means for people in the U.S. and around the world. And they will exchange over the need for resistance and the prospects for and path to liberation for the oppressed in the U.S. and indeed, for all of humanity.

CORNEL WEST is one of America's most provocative public intellectuals and has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." Dr. West currently teaches at Princeton University.

CARL DIX is a longtime revolutionary and a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. In 1970 Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6, six GI's who refused orders to go to Vietnam. He served two years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for this stand. In the aftermath of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia, Carl initiated the Draw the Line statement, a powerful condemnation of the attack. He co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality in 1996. Carl coordinated the Katrina hearings of the 2006 Bush Crimes Commission.