March 5, 2003

"Global Decisions/Local Collisions"


UIC Professor Emeritus David Ranney will speak on his new book:
"Global Decisions/Local Collisions" on
Wednesday, March 5th from 1-1:50 p.m. in Lecture Center C6.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Ranney, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Urban Economic Development, argues that workers and community residents can only redirect Globalization and secure meaningful social change by linking the global with the local.
Although he has a Ph.D. and worked at UIC for more than 20-years as a researcher, writer and teacher, Ranney is not a detached academic observer. He is a former factory worker, community organizer, union member, and planning consultant. His experiences on the factory floor, working in a legal clinic that served laid-off steelworkers, and advising black and Hispanic residents battling urban renewal, are described in the book. These real-life stories are interwoven with a sharp critique of the New World Order's political philosophy, governmental policies, and international trade agreements that have become dominant in the last half century.