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Worcester State College Press
Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REFORMED ECONOMIC HIT MAN FEATURED (WORCESTER – March 21, 2005) Nationally acclaimed author and lecturer, John Perkins is concerned that the money being sent into the tsunami stricken areas will end up in the pockets of the rich. He should know; for decades he was an Economic Hit Man (EHM). As a former chief economist for MAIN, a consulting company in Boston, his job was to go into poor countries and offer money to build infrastructure. The poor countries could never pay back the loans, never received the jobs to build, and ultimately fell under the influence of U.S. interests. As the featured lecturer of the annual Sarah Sharbach Memorial Lecture, Perkins will appear at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 11, 2005, in the Multimedia Auditorium (Room 102) of the Ghosh Center for Science and Technology at Worcester State College, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester. The event is free and open to the public. Perkins will be available to sign copies of his book. Perkins’ controversial, tell-all memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, has been a New York Times bestseller for weeks. He tells the story of how he was enticed by the NSA (National Security Agency), trained, and ultimately succeeded as one of the top EHM in the world. After September 11th, he decided to drop the veil of secrecy and ignore the threats and bribes to not write his memoirs. He wanted to expose the fact that EHM are more ubiquitous today than ever before. In his book, he describes the dangerous path his country is taking as it moves away from the original ideals of the American republic and into a quest for global empire. “It really is déjà vu, except this time with a natural disaster to start the process,” he said. “If you notice, it is the government and private citizens who are donating most of the money. If there is a group that has been too quiet, it is the large corporations, waiting to take advantage of this new and unexpected pot of gold.” This annual lecture is named in memory of Sarah Sharbach, Ph.D., who was a history professor at WSC specializing in Latin American and Native American peoples until her untimely death last year. She also had a passion for social and economic justice. This lecture is sponsored by WSC’s Women’s Studies, the Departments of Philosophy, Communications and History; and the Center for the Study of Human Rights.
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