ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS:
"War"
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 8 pm (doors at 7:30)
Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave
$5 cover
BRENDAN KOERNER: The Man Who Would Be Ang
World War II's most brutal backwater was the Indo-Burmese jungle, where 15,000 African-American GIs struggled to build a road to nowhere. Brendan I. Koerner will recount how one of those soldiers, Pvt. Herman Perry, wound up going native amidst a tribe of xenophobic headhunters.
KEN FREEDMAN: Seven Inches of Propaganda
WFMU's Ken Freedman gives an overview of American propaganda's hit records throughout the ages.
JIM FREDERICK: TBA
…and one more TBA.
Hosted, as always, by the inimitable Charles Star
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BIOS
KEN FREEDMAN is the Station Manager of WFMU, the longest running and most renowned freeform radio station in the United States. He recently founded the Free Music Archive (freemusicarchive.org), an online music library and social site based on curated music licensed under alternative copyrights such as creative commons licenses. Freedman has served on the board of public science and technology companies and is a technology advisor to the National Federation of Community (NFCB) broadcasters.
BRENDAN I. KOERNER is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. He blogs daily at Microkhan.com.
CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a lawyer sans portfolio and a stand-up comedian sans recognition who lives in Brooklyn with one each of wife, cat, and toddler. He's on the web at charlesstar.com.
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