Wednesday, April 29, 7:00pm:
A Roundtable Discussion on:
Michael Eric Dyson's
article in the current New Republic: "The Ghost of Cornel West"
Cornel West with Carl Dix, Eve Ensler, Rev. Calvin Butts, parents of people killed by police, on April 14, NYC
A roundtable discussion will take place at Revolution Books with
Carl Dix and
Andy Zee on the
article published this week in
The New Republic about Dr. Cornel West by author and political commentator Michael Eric Dyson.
Carl Dix and Lenny Wolf have just written a response to Dyson's article at revcom.us:
From the article: "This Sunday, The New Republic posted a vicious attack on Cornel West, "The Ghost of Cornel West," by Michael Eric Dyson. This attack is not an academic dispute; it is a hit job against a deeply principled intellectual who refused to put away his critical faculties when Obama took office, who has increasingly stepped out into the struggle against murders by police and mass incarceration, and who has done so in a way that condemns and exposes the crimes -- and yes, they are crimes -- of the Obama Administration. All the sound and fury of Dyson's long rant cannot hide that essential, and shameful, fact..." -- April 22, 2015, Revolution newspaper, revcom.us
Carl Dix is a co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West, of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network. He is a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Andy Zee is the spokesperson for Revolution Books and the co-director of the film, REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion; A Film of A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN.
