Tonight! Screening & Discussion of Verita$, 7:30 pm, 9A Hamilton Place, Boston

[Geoff Carens]

Join the Boston IWW tonight (Friday) at 7:30 PM for a screening and
discussion <https://www.facebook.com/events/1184391911576685/> 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.

The late Shin Eun-jung’s husband, George Katsiaficas, the author of the
two-volume *Asia’s Unknown Uprisings* (PM Press), plans to join us at this
event!

Light Refreshments will be served.

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!

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More about Verita$, which is now a book published by PM Press:
http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=683

Announcing Shin Eun-jung’s Verita$: Harvard’s Hidden History:

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.

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.

About the Author: Shin Eun-jung:

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.

Introduction by John Trumpbour:

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 *How
Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire* (South End Press) and is
the author of *Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles
for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950* (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.
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