AB - Carnegie Mellon Activities Board

Wednesday, 11/19 8pm	Antonia Juhasz	THE TYRANNY OF OIL: The World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It A new book by ANTONIA JUHASZ of the Institute for Policy Studies & Oil Change International The hardest-hitting exposé of the oil industry in decades answers today’s most pressing energy questions: ~Why are oil and gasoline prices rising so quickly? ~Where will prices go in the future? ~Who’s really controlling those prices? ~How much oil is left? ~How far will Big Oil go to get it? ~And at what cost to the economy, environment, human rights, worker safety, public health, democracy, and America’s place in the world? Juhasz investigates the true state of the U.S. oil industry, uncovering its virtually unparalleled global power, its influence over our elected officials, its lack of regulatory oversight, the truth behind $150-a-barrel oil, $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, and the highest profits in corporate history. Exposing an industry that thrives on secrecy, Juhasz shows how Big Oil manages to hide its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all, consumers. She reveals exactly how Big Oil gets what it wants—through money, influence, and lies. A tool for meaningful change that blends history, original investigative research and reporting, interviews with key industry insiders, and a unique focus on activism, _The Tyranny of Oil_ is required reading for every concerned global citizen. A “timely, blistering critique... white-hot... Explosive fuel for the raging debate on oil prices.” - Kirkus Reviews	More...

Thursday, 10/6 5:00-6:30pm	Paul O'Neill	When Paul O'Neill left his position as CEO of Alcoa, he had already revolutionized buisness. He was ready for retirement and did not expect to be stepping back into the political spotlight any time soon. Flattered by the prestige of the Secretary of the Treasury position, O'Neill threw himself back into DC, only to find out that his redeeming qualities might cause his ethics to clash with the current administrations' tactics. 72nd Secretary of the Treasury, Former CEO of Alcoa, head of the RAND corporation, and subject of Ron Suskind's novel The Price of Loyalty, O'Neill proves to be one of the true political mavrick's of our time. A firm believer in policy over ideology, he is able to see both sides and understand of the politicial spectrum. Here to speak on the economy, he will be able to give careful insight into what is soon to come.	More...

Tuesday, 4/29 8 PM (Doors at 7:30 PM)	Sasha Frere-Jones	Sasha Frere-Jones is a musician and the pop-music critic of The New Yorker. He will lecture on his work, with Q&A to follow.	More...

Monday, 4/14 7 PM	Naomi Klein	Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated into 20 languages to date. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a million times. Following Naomi Klein's reception and book signing, come and see 'Our Daily Bread' in McConomy, 9:00 PM: If you've ever had to defend your eating or food-shopping habits to those that raise a cynical eye to the terms "organic," "healthy" or "fair trade," you will not want to miss this film. Nor should you let your critics miss it either. Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter kneads together a collection of documentary footage from European countries. Images of crowded cows, cramped chickens, sprayers, spritzers and pickers are but a few of the seeds he plants for the viewer to cultivate and digest independently. We are what we eat, but what are we eating? When did nourishment become so mechanized? Humans are inventive and creative beings, but when does a machine cease to be an innovation and become a harmful or inhumane excess? "Our Daily Bread" is a speechless forum that will leave you equally without words the next time you face a food aisle. Take time after the film to taste the importance of tradition. Allegro Hearth Bakery of Squirrel Hill will generously provide your daily slice of bread, hummus and cheeses prepared without the poking and prodding of mysterious mechanizations. "Our Daily Bread" Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter Austria, 2006 Runtime: 92 minutes	More...

Monday, 3/31 7 PM (Doors at 6:30 PM)	Junot Diaz	Junot Diaz is author of bestselling “Drown”, a collection of short stories about his native Dominican Republic, and the 2007 novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”. Time Magazine hailed “Oscar Wao” as “astoundingly great” the Star Tribune praised it as “a preview of what the next generation of English might look like”. Diaz is also a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.	More...