Live from Berkeley, California at 2 pm PDT, 5 pm EDT Saturday, a memorial service for Michael Parenti, the great historian, social critic, author and lecturer. Speakers include Dennis Kucinich, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Christian Parenti and Marcie Smith.
Michael Parenti. (Willa Madden/ Wikimedia www.willamadden.com in 2004)
Lovely memorial. Before he died, I knew of Michael Parenti only through his speeches. And what a great speech-maker he was. Lucid and passionate.
Michael Parenti was an outstanding leader. His death is a loss to the world.
A fantastic memorial and tribute to an outstanding working class intellectual and activist. Thank you for sharing this.
The memorial was perfect. I was lucky enough to be there. Christian Parenti and his wife Marcie Smith did. a perfect job.
Too few like him. He said on point. Most do not. The world will miss such a voice for us.
Thank you CN for giving us a heads up on this.
I feel very fortunate and honored to have received an uplifting email from Michael Parenti, attended numerous of his California talks during the late 70’s and early 80’s, as well as read many of his books and writings.
A human being who actively, against the formidable odds, attempted to lead the way for humanity to actually become more civilized than proclaimed.
He was authentic leadership personified.
He was. You are right. What else to say.
Ew… Jimmy Dore?
Why not Angela Davis, or Chris Hedges, or Tim Wise, or Finklestein, or Richard Wolfe or Naomi Klein or Abby Martin?
Because none of the above are communists like Parenti was. Jimmy Dore is a strong leftist and anti imperialist. The others are not.