Events

Irwin Tang will lead a discussion on his new book, "Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters" on Thursday September 11 at Monkey Wrench Books. The book shocks and awes readers with a detailed history of Senator John McCain's racial bias, including his habit of using the racial slur, "gook." Tang links racism with warmongering and examines McCain's historic compulsion to start and maintain shooting wars in foreign countries. We'll see you at 8 pm on September 11 at Monkey Wrench Books.

Documentarian Anne Lewis presents her acclaimed film Morristown.

Morristown: in the air and sun is a working class response to globalization. It engages the audience in the issues of immigration, factory flight, and the organized demand for economic justice.

Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, Morristown: in the air and sun is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hope. These conversations are combined with scenes in factories, fields, union halls, Mexican stores, city parks, and employment agencies. The documentary travels to the U.S.-Mexican border (El Paso – Juarez) to create deeper understanding of factory flight out of Morristown, and to interior Mexico to look at the forces that cause immigration. Morristown ends with a stunning union victory at a large poultry processing plant in Morristown, Tennessee.