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$600 OR MORE Everything offered in the $300 and up pledge as well as dinner with Paul -- complete with stories, and conversation -- following his talk and book signing. (NOTE: Reward recipient must be located in one of the tour cities and attend the event!); a signed hardcover copy of "The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power". Name and photo with special thanks on Paul's webpage (coming soon!)
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Paul Street is the author of five books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2009) and the soon-to-be-released sequel, The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2010).
Street's essays, articles, reviews, and commentaries have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Capital City Times, In These Times, Chicago History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Social History, Review of Educational, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Dissent, Black Agenda Report, Dissident Voice, Black Commentator, Monthly Review, History News Network, Tom'sDispatch, AlterNet., and (above all) ZNet and Z Magazine. From the base of ZNet, Z Magazine, and Black Agenda Report, his essays are picked up and reproduced (often in numerous languages) across the planet/World Wide Web in venues too numerous to track and mention.
Street's writings, research findings, and commentary have been featured and presented in a large number and wide variety of media venues, including The New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, the Chicago Tribune, The Times of India, Morning Star (England), Al-Alkhbar (The News in Beirut, Lebanon), WGN (Chicago/national), WLS (ABC-Chicago), Fox News, the Chicago Sun Times, the Capital City Times (Madison, WI), and the Iowa City Press Citizen.
Street has appeared in more than 60 radio and television interviews/broadcasts and on the popular live Web book-chat at "Firedog." Lake
Street possesses a doctorate in modern U.S. History (with an emphasis on the history of industrial and class relations) - a degree that he will soon be marketing on E-Bay - and once hit a 25-foot jump shot over the outstretched arm of Michigan Wolverine basketball great and future NBA veteran Ricky Green.
Street has taught various aspects of U.S. history at a large number of Chicago-area colleges and universities. He has been strongly attached to Left political and intellectual culture since he read Volume 1 of Das Kapital and Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution (the first at a snail's pace) in the basement of a house in DeKalb, Illinois in the spring of 1978. He was the Director of Research at The Chicago Urban League from 2000 through 2005.
Those who still need to get me a mailing addgress can send it to
paulstreet@live.com
Please see my last comment.
Okay this (below) went up on my Website. Please look for your name. If your (a) name is listed without a city or town right after and (b) you gave $25 or more then I still your mailing address in order to send you a copy of the book you are due (I have about 7 or 8 names like this).
Here is a list, presented in deep gratitude (thank you all!) of people who supported me in my recent book tour through http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulstreet/the-lefts-fiercest-critic-goes-street-on-obama/:
Robert Johnson, New York, NY
David Keenan, San Francisco, CA
Jerry D. Rose. Gainesville, FLA
Mary Gear Family Trust, OR
John Clark, South Africa
Ellen Eades, Seattle, WA
David Buccola, Brooklyn, NY
Jeff Batter
Mark A. Lause
Mort Brussel, Urbana IL
Fanona Grace
Roland Jesperson, Taylor ND
Terri DeMatteo, Westfield, NJ
Uffe Kaels Auring, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kimber Beachy, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Edward Robinson, Swampscott MA
Giovanni Navarrete
Patrick Graydon, Charlottesville VA
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Nate George, Cedar Rapids, IA
Dennis Leahy, Duluth, MN
Peter Borkowicz, Vancouver BC
Thomas Milcarek, Haleiwa, HI
Darlene Clausen, Iowa City IA
Matt Hoke
Mark E. Mendoza, Cincinnati, OH
Christine Gervais, Glendale Hts IL
Clifton Buck-Kauffman, Cotati CA
Lee Gloster
Mitchell Polo, Brooklyn NY
Tony Tothe, Chatham NJ
Louis Proyect, New York, NY
Duane McCormick, Henrico Virginia
Jarmila Reed
Jeff Pickens, Turnersville NJ
Michele R Dahl
Thomas Bias
Colin Brace
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Mark Segal
Dave Jones
Adam Helfgott
Kelly Locker
Jeff Mincey
Shaheen Dabestani
Josephine SinjinSmith Carnesi
Élise R. Hendrick, Cincinnati,
My mailing address is:88-25 148th street,apt.5G,Jamaica,NY 11435
Josephine Carnesi
I must get mailing addresse to send out rewards!
Please look at e-mail in-box. friends. I have sent out the information request through the Kickstarter Web site. Please prioritize the Kickstarter avenue tou can also send me mailing address through paulstreet@live.com if there is a problem with the KS Web site route for any reason.
I have 28 paperbacks and 4 hardcovers to mail out ASAP along (to a larger #) with my "Bacskatage Reflections.".
Thank you to all 59 backers who helped make this project a fundraising winner and to others who helped spread the word. With the amount raised I expect to take the book tour back into the Midwest (my own home region...I'm from Chicago and Iowa City) later this year. Anyone with suggestions on sites/venues please feel free to write me at paulstreet99@yahoo.com. Thanks again to my supporters - I am extremely grateful.
Contrbutions have continued to come in - thank you to all the backers so far! We are shooting for $3000 and perhaps beyond. I am extremely grateful to those who have offered support so far. Please let any friends who may be intetrested know that more contributions means more towns/cities. I look forward to acknowledging and making contact with backers after the closing date.
Thank you so much to Mary Gear Family Trust and to all my other contributors!-- I did not expect to meet the project goal so early! i am very grateful. This establishes that I will complete a brief tour in Washington, Philly, NYc, and Boston. We can certainly continue on if folks want to extend my talks. Christine I remember that, yes - thank you again.
There you are Paul--over the top--although I hope you continue to get pledges as your work deserves much more.
My latest on Z:
"Anti-Capitalism as Suicide Prevention: Personal Worth Against Exchange Value and Corporate Thought Control"
http://tinyurl.com/2asg64g
A LOOK BACK
On claims to be Obama's earliest and fiercest critic from the left. This, from June of 2006:
ODIOUS OBAMA'S PATH TO HELL
by: Paul Street
ARCHIVED -- JUNE 2006
http://www.zcommunications.org/odious-obamas-path-to-hell-by-paul-street
LIVE CHAT WITH AUTHOR PAUL STREET VIA SKYPE ON JULY 21
See link for details!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php...
Thank you.
Thank you, Christine!
Hey Paul, Back in the day you made a small donation to help fund my trip to the March of the Americas. It's a pleasure to "pay it forward" right back to you. Best wishes for your tour, I'm sure it will be a smashing success!