Columnist Robert Scheer will speak about “The Role of Dissent in a Free Society” at the summer luncheon of the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club on Saturday, July 12. The event which starts at 11:30 a.m., is open to the community and will be located at the Palisades Women’s Club.
Scheer is a renowned journalist with 30 years of experience. He was a Vietnam correspondent and editor of Ramparts magazine, and a national correspondent for the LA Times. Currently, Scheer writes a weekly column for The Times, is a contributing editor for The Nation magazine and teaches a course on media and society at USC’s Annenberg School for Communications. He also speaks on KCRW’s “Left and Right Center” with Matt Miller, David Fromm and Arianna Huffington every Friday afternoon.
Scheer is an author and has written six books. His three most famous are, “Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power,” “With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War” and “America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals.”
Reservations for the luncheon are required. The event costs $20 for adults and $10 for students. Reservations can be made by calling Marge Zifferblatt at (310) 454-0174.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 5, 2003. Read the original PDF.