Insightful Panel of Speakers:

Charlie Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston College and has written 20 books – on politics, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, culture and conversation, and social change. He writes for and has been reviewed in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Truthout, and other leading media. His books are translated into Chinese, Korean, Tamil, German and Polish- and he is a bestseller in South Korea, done extended book tours in German bookstores and blues coffee houses, and has lectured in Italy for seven years. Derber is a public intellectual – shortlisted in 2006 for best book in current affairs – who believes that serious ideas should be written in an accessible and entertaining style. In addition to Welcome to the Revolution, his most recent books include Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States; Capitalism: Should You Buy It?; and The Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions – Piketty and Beyond.

Katherine Asuncion, Dreamer and leader of the Student Immigrant Movement 

Mike Prokosch, an organizer, carpenter, calligrapher, and popular economics educator who co-founded Dorchester People for Peace and the short-lived New Priorities Network to move money from the Pentagon to our communities.

Moderator: Suren Moodliar, coordinates encuentro5 [http://encuentro5.org] in downtown Boston. He is also the vice-president of the Liberty Tree Foundation [http://libertytreefoundation.org] and incoming editor of Socialism and Democracy [http://sdonline.org]. With co-author, Joseph Nevins he is writing, A People’s Guide to Greater Boston; he is also a contributor to Charlie Derber’s Welcome to the Revolution [http://UniversalizingRes