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At 4 PM - Jerelle Kraus is the award-winning New York Times art director whose thirty-year tenure includes a record thirteen years at inimitable Op-Ed. She’s also been an art director at Time & the art director of Ramparts magazine & of Francis Ford Coppola’s City magazine.

The New Yorker & The New York Times magazine have published her writing, including an “On Language” column that subbed for William Safire. Fluent in 4 languages, she was educated at Swarthmore & Pomona Colleges & l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received an MA from UC Berkeley & a Fulbright scholarship to Munich. She is the author of All the Art That’s Fit to Print (and Some That Wasn’t) Inside the New York Times Op-ed Page. We’re thrilled to have her back for another visit!

At 5 PM – Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for many years. He is the author of Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy and Why Unions Matter .

Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist’s Travelogue, March 19, 2007 The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight. Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics, Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001, with a pension account that had doubled during the dot.com frenzy of the late 1990s. He and his wife Karen sold their house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since then, often spending months at a time on the road. Michael and Karen spent the summer of 2001 in Yellowstone National Park, where Michael worked as a hotel front-desk clerk. They moved to Manhattan for a year, where he worked for Monthly Review. From there they went to Portland, Oregon, to explore the Pacific Northwest. After five months of travel in Summer and Fall 2004, they settled in Miami Beach. Ahead of the 2005 hurricane season, they went back on the road, settling this time in Colorado. Cheap Motels and a Hotplate is both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the small towns and big cities of the contemporary United States.

The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know – Michael D, Yates and Fred Magdoff

The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow will bring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called “experts“—still cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis and offer nothing to explain it. In this short, clear, and concise book, Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates explain the nature of the economic crisis. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate that this crisis is not some aberration from a normally benign capitalism but rather the normal and even expected outcome of a thoroughly irrational and destructive system. No amount of tinkering with capitalism, whether it be discredited neoliberalism or the return of Keynesianism and a “new” New Deal, can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the world’s people by a tiny minority of business owners. While the current economic maelstrom has laid bare the web of greed, corruption, and propaganda that are central to capitalism, only an aroused public, demanding the right to health care, decent employment, a secure old age, and a clean and healthy environment, can lead the United States and the world out of the worst crisis since the Great Depression and toward a system of production and distribution conducive to human happiness. This book is aimed primarily at working people, students, and activists, who want not just to understand the world but to change it.

We also spoke with Sophie Grig campaigner for Survival International regarding their amazing work with the Jarawa tribes of the Andaman Islands http://www.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/ SPECIAL OFFER !! The incredible, one-of-a-kind, collector’s item DI cookbook, titled “Chat Chow” is now available for pre-order sales at the amazing low price of $10.00! And that includes shipping and handling!

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