Ric Pfeffer Memorial Lecture Fund
The Ric Pfeffer Lecture fund was established in memory of Ric Pfeffer, former Johns Hopkins professor, activist attorney in the field of worker health and safety, and founding member of the Progressive Action Center (PAC). The lecture fund honors his legacy by providing support for radical and progressive lectures which help people in the Baltimore area analyze current conditions and promote activism.
Read more about Ric: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1318/index.php
Ric Pfeffer Lecture Committee: Charles D'Adamo, Sylvia Gillett, Janie Gordon, Claudia Leight, Kostis Papadantonakis, Alexi Pappas, Dean Pappas, Alexei Pfeffer-Gillett
Past Pfeffer Lectures:
David Harvey: "The New Imperialism"
October 25 2002
More info: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/2096/index.php
Richard Rubenstein: "Religion and Social Conflict"
October 17 2003
Howard Zinn: "Reinventing Peace: Making It a Reality After 9/11"
December 8 2004 (co-sponsor Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium) "Howard Zinn Strategizes with Baltimore's Left" (Discussion prior to the lecture)
More info: http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/9074/index.php
Linda Rae Murray: "Health Coverage for All: Job Health & safety, the Uninsured and the Role of Unions"
December 4 2005
Vicente Navarro: "Unmentionable Causes of Worldwide Inequality and Poverty"
March 2 2007
Related article: "The Worldwide Class Struggle"
Phyllis Bennis: "Challenging Empire: the US in the Middle East"
December 6 2007
Arun Gupta: "The Early History of the New Depression"
April 5 2009
Listen to the lecture: http://www.rafbaltimore.org/media/audio/2010/02/arun_gupta_normalized.mp3
Medea Benjamin: "From Afghanistan to Gaza: Working toward a More Peaceful World"
January 31 2010
Listen to the lecture: http://www.archive.org/details/Medea_Benjamin_at_2640_January_31_2010
Vicente Navarro in conversation with Ric Pfeffer
Ric Pfeffer, a founder of both the Progressive Action Center and Research Associates Foundation, discusses the Days of Rage in Chicago (1969), the US?China Friendship Committee, experience at Johns Hopkins University (1970s), the founding of the Progressive Action Center (1982), legal work on occupational health and safety at US Dept. of Labor. A conversation with Vicente Navarro of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Listen to the conversation: http://www.archive.org/details/VicenteNavarroInConversationWithRicPfeffer
