Tuesday, 14 Feb 2006
Technology in the Global Economy Today: Overaccumulation Crises, "Casino Capitalism," and Uneven Development - Tony Smith
Tony Smith has taught philosophy and political science at Iowa State University since 1980 and has been involved with the Radical Philosophers Association, Union of Radical Political Economists, Conference of Socialist Economists, and Philosophers for Social Responsibility, among others. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Iowa Policy Project, a non-profit and non-partisan organization for the production and dissemination of research on significant public policy issues in Iowa. He has written four books, including The Logic of Marx's Capital (1990) and Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (2000). His research interests include a critical comparison between Marxian and competing accounts of globalization and the development of a systematic reconstruction of the globalization debate. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Voices from Iraq - Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly co-founded Voices in the Wilderness, a group which bears witness to the suffering the UN imposed sanctions have visited upon the people, especially the children, of Iraq. She has been to Iraq twenty-two times since January 1996, when the campaign began, and is the author of Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison.