"Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole" discussed at the InfoShop on May 7, 2007, 12:00-2:00pm in JB1-080

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cordially invites you to a book launch:
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| | Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, |
| | Consumed examines phenomena as seemingly |
| | disparate to show how the freedoms of the |
| | free market have undermined the freedoms of |
| | the deliberative adult citizen. With |
| | brilliance and depth, Barber confronts the |
| | likely consequences for our children, our |
| | liberty, and our citizenship, and shows |
| | finally how citizens can resist and overcome |
| | the "civic schizophrenia" in which our |
| | impulses as consumers are forever in conflict |
| | with our convictions as citizens. |
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Monday, May 7, 2007 from 12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building
Lower Level Auditorium JB1 - 080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

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Author
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin Barber is a Professor at the University of Maryland, as
well as president and director of the international NGO CivWorld,
and its annual Interdependence Day event, and distinguished senior
fellow at Demos. An internationally renowned political theorist,
Mr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship
to issues of politics, culture and education in America and abroad.
Mr. Barber consults regularly with political and civic leaders in
the United States and around the world.

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accessible space at headquarters, providing internal and external
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and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
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