Meeting: "Flames of revolt in China"

Natural disasters in China have led in the past to rulers being toppled. The manmade disaster exposed by China's earthquake-schoolchildren crushed under the weight of shoddy buildings erected by well-connected insiders-has deepened popular revulsion against China's rulers.

News & Letters writer Bob McGuire will discuss the cost of China's expansion and power, of just who is paying the price: the children killed in the recent earthquakes; the workers, including child laborers; displaced peasants and farmers; the people of Tibet; even the people of Darfur.

An open discussion will follow the presentation

MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008
6:30 PM

NEWS AND LETTERS COMMITTEES
36 S. WABASH, ROOM 1440

(312) 236-0799; arise (at) newsandletters.org


To read Bob McGuire's article on China in the April/May issue of News & Letters, go to:

www.newsandletters.org/issues/2008/Apr-May/Lead_Apr-May_08.htm