Matt Taibbi: “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”

 KPFA Radio
presents

MATT
TAIBBI

“The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of
the Wealth Gap”

 Hosted by Don Goldmacher

Saturday,
April 12, 7:30 pm

First Congregational
Church of Berkeley

2345
Channing Way, Berkeley

$12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/595708
:: 800-838-3006

or Pegasus Books (3
locations), Marcus Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL a
Bookstore. SF: Modern Times  ($15
door)  

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From the award-winning investigative journalist and
bestselling author of The Great
Derangement and Griftopia comes
another devastating portrait of American values in our polarized age, a
galvanizing exploration of how our growing wealth gap is not just warping our
economy, but transforming the meaning of rights, justice, and basic
citizenship. 

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi
has become one of the most essential and widely read journalists in
America.  Ezra Klein in The Washington Post called his work an
“almost startling reminder of the power of good writing.”

 THE
DIVIDE: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap is a probing
investigation of one of the most pressing issues facing us today: the
increasing wealth gap and how it is affecting our system of justice. “The
Divide,” reveals our two most troubling trends - enormous wealth inequality on
one hand and an increasingly punitive, intrusive state on the other, resulting
in our basic rights now being determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide
is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished,
while turning poverty itself into a crime.

Matt Taibbi, until very recently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, won a National Magazine
Award for his reporting on the 2008 presidential election, and was a finalist
for his coverage of Occupy Wall Street. The author of two New York Times bestsellers, Taibbi has just joined Pierre’s
Omidyar’s group of original, independent journalists (along with Glen Greenwald
and Jeremy Scahill) - and is now assembling topnotch talent  for First
Look’s second digital magazine. 

Donald Goldmacher, Producer/Director of Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?,  is a longtime filmmaker, labor activist, and
community psychiatrist with decades of experience.

His first film, “Do No
Harm,” exposed the controversial marketing and research practices of the
pharmaceutical industry. His recent feature documentary “Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House”, won over 20 festival
awards and aired on HBO and television around the world.