<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>Join the Boston IWW tonight (Friday) at 7:30 PM for a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1184391911576685/" target="_blank">screening and discussion</a>
of Shin Eun-jung’s Verita$, a film that exposes Harvard University’s
300+ year history of wide-ranging political influence beyond its
Cambridge gates. The Salem Witch Trials, the execution of Sacco &
Vanzetti, pseudo-scientific eugenics, CIA Black Ops, attacks on labor
organizing, and local institutional expansion/gentrification, are only a
few examples of topics covered by the film.</p>
<p>The late Shin Eun-jung’s husband, George Katsiaficas, the author of
the two-volume <u>Asia’s Unknown Uprisings</u> (PM Press), plans to join us at
this event!</p>
<p>Light Refreshments will be served.</p>
<p>Encuentro 5 is located at 9A Hamilton Place, steps from Park Street
Station on the Red Line. The space is accessible by a short flight of
stairs but is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. E5 is a safer
space, please respect the people and the place. Thank you, see you
there!</p>
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<p>More about Verita$, which is now a book published by PM Press: <a href="http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=683" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=683</a></p>
<p>Announcing Shin Eun-jung’s Verita$: Harvard’s Hidden History:</p>
<p>We hope you might be interested in knowing that Shin Eun-jung’s
long-awaited book that critically examines Harvard’s monumental but
disconcerting global influence and power is being launched August 15th.</p>
<p>The “hidden history” announced in the book’s title begins with
analysis of Harvard’s involvement in the Salem witch trials and the
trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. Similarly disquieting, Harvard provided
students as strikebreakers in both the 1912 Bread and Roses textile
workers strike and the 1919 Boston police strike. Harvard administrators
and scientists promoted eugenics in the early twentieth century and had
a deep impact on Nazi Germany’s race theories. Its contemporary ties to
U.S. foreign policy and neoliberalism are also profound. Harvard’s
management of Russian economic reform left nightmarish memories, and the
university was compelled to pay more than $26 million after the U.S.
government sued it. The book also examines Harvard’s investment policy
for its massive endowment, its restrictive labor polices, and its
devastation of the adjoining Allston-Brighton neighborhood into which it
is expanding.</p>
<p>About the Author: Shin Eun-jung:</p>
<p>Shin Eun-jung was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1972. Her
hometown’s historic uprising in 1980 had a profound effect on her life. A
student activist, she later worked as a television news writer for nine
years. From 2000 to 2004, she directed the Gwangju Human Rights Film
Festival, which screened documentaries from around the world. This book
is based upon the award-winning film of the same title. Verita$ won Best
Director of a Documentary award at the 2011 New York International Film
Festival; it was screened at the Society for Cinema Studies, the
International Labor and Video Festival in Turkey, the San Francisco
Labor Fest, and in its Korean version at the Seoul Marginal Film
Festival. The Korean version of the book was a bestseller among
nonfiction titles. Until she suddenly passed away in November 2012, she
was hard at work translating the book into English.</p>
<p>Introduction by John Trumpbour:</p>
<p>Born in North Carolina, John Trumpbour earned a BA in history at
Stanford University and later received a PhD in history at Harvard. He
edited <u>How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire</u> (South End
Press) and is the author of <u>Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and
European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950</u>
(Cambridge University Press), which won the Allan Nevins Prize from the
Society of American Historians. He is currently Research Director for
the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.</p></div></div>