[EVENT] Dissent 60th Anniversary Celebration

[EVENT] Dissent 60th Anniversary Celebration

Join Dissent in celebrating sixty years of critical thought and politics, in honoring Michael Walzer’s six decades as writer and editor, and in building the foundation for a renewed democratic left in the twenty-first century.

Co-hosts Jules Bernstein and Randi Weingarten invite you to join Dissent in celebrating sixty years of critical thought and politics, in honoring Michael Walzer’s six decades as writer and editor, and in building the foundation for a renewed democratic left in the twenty-first century.

October 24, 2013
United Federation of Teachers Hall
New York, NY

Remarks by co-hosts Randi Weingarten, President, AFT
and Jules Bernstein

Featured speaker: The Honorable Barney Frank

Reading by C.K. Williams, Pulitzer Prize winning poet

Remarks by Michael Walzer and Leon Wieseltier
and Dissent editors Michael Kazin, Sarah Leonard, Nick Serpe, and Tim Barker

Cocktail hour starting at 6 p.m.
Remarks and Dinner starting at 7 p.m.

To learn more about support levels and to purchase tickets, please click here.

Host Committee (in formation):

Kenneth Arrow, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice
Leo Casey, Executive Director, Albert Shanker Institute
Danny Goldberg
Lawrence Gulotta, Dissent Sustainer
Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work
Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania
Moshe Halbertal
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, SEIU
Colin Johnson, Dissent Sustainer
William Kornblum, Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY
Fred Lawrence, President of Brandeis University
Jonathan S. Lee, Dissent Sustainer
Mark Levinson, Chief Economist, SEIU
Joe McCartin, Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
Ruth Messinger, Former Manhattan Borough President
Larry Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute
Jo-Ann Mort, Editorial board member, Dissent
George Packer, Staff writer, The New Yorker
Miles Rapoport, President, Demos
Benjamin Ross, Dissent Sustainer
Robert Silvers, Editor, The New York Review of Books
Ann Snitow, Director, Gender Studies, The New School
Michael Tomasky, Editor, Democracy
Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation
Elaine and James Wolfensohn

For more information, please contact Grace Goldfarb at goldfarb [at] dissentmagazine.org