JUNE 6: CHANGING THE WORLD
Cincinnati CityBeat, OH
June 6 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning author/journalist Samantha Power is the keynote
speaker tonight at the Mercantile Library’s annual Harriet Beecher
Stowe Lecture, "Writing to Change the World." Power won the Pulitzer
for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,
which looked at the 20th century through the lens of genocide – from
the Ottoman Empire’s slaughter of a million Armenians during the First
World War to Saddam Hussein’s murder of 100,000 Kurds and the ethnic
cleansing of Kosovo to the current situation in Darfur, Sudan.
"Because of her writing to change the world and because at the
Mercantile Library – which we consider the literary center of
Cincinnati – we see the need to continue the work Stowe did," says
Dale Brown, vice president of the library’s board of directors, in
CityBeat. "We look for speakers who are writing for themselves to
change the world or writing about people who have changed the world."
Power’s lecture will be in the library’s reading room at 7 p.m. The
cost is $20 for Mercantile Library members and $25 for all others.
Reservations are required. More info here.
~U Tonight is Day 8 of the Fringe Festival, heading into its final
weekend. Check up on all the productions at CityBeat’s Fringe review
blog and oyur critics’ Fringe highlights of the first week.
~U Napoleon Maddox heads an Experimental Rock show tonight at The
Gypsy Hut, a fund-raiser for the local arts organization Art Damage.
~U In local issues, I’ve written an editorial about the Hamilton County
jail tax hike in today’s CityBeat. My take: I like Todd Portune’s and
David Pepper’s plan, a huge improvement over the jail tax proposal
voters rejected last November. I still don’t like regressive sales
taxes as the funding mechanism. And I support the effort by various
groups to mount a referendum ballot drive. The Cincinnati Beacon has
more on this issue.
~U In national news, Scooter Libby got two and a half years in prison
for being Vice President Cheney’s lackey. And eternity in Hell.
~U The 10 announced Republican candidates for president had another
debate last night, with immigration reform the major topic.
There’s no debate about Hump Day. It’s downhill from here to the
weekend.
– John Fox
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
