The Forbidden Bookshelf

Our special guest speaker for this evening's chapter meeting is Mark Crispin Miller (http://markcrispinmiller.com/), a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University. In his presentation, Prof. Miller will address the question, "How are books suppressed in the United States?".

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While the state is not allowed to ban them outright, many books--we cannot know how many--have been disappeared by powerful interests using a broad range of tactics. Prof. Miller will discuss this sort of censorship, by way of introduction to Forbidden Bookshelf (http://www.openroadmedia.com/forbidden-bookshelf), the new book series (http://www.openroadmedia.com/blog/2014-06-10/Open-Road-Media-Announces-Creation-of-Forbidden-Bookshelf) that he's editing for Open Road Media (http://www.openroadmedia.com/).

Prof. Miller is the author of several books (http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Crispin-Miller/e/B001IU4XLI), including "Boxed In: The Culture of TV", "The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder", "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order" and "Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform". He is also the editor of "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008" and the Forbidden Bookshelf series (https://www.facebook.com/forbiddenbookshelf), published by Open Road Media. His essays and articles have appeared in many journals, magazines and newspapers throughout the nation and the world, and he has given countless interviews worldwide.

Please note that because this meeting is being held in a restaurant, food and adult beverage of your choice will be available for purchase. To allow our speaker to be uninterrupted, let's do food service early, say until 7:15 or so. Because we must vacate the room at 9:00 PM, we can always eat later, downstairs. Some of us will always stay late. We can't stop sharing our Humanist Philosophy. Hoping to see you at the meeting!

This will be the final HSMNY chapter meeting in calendar year 2014. In January, we'll return to our usual second Thursday and fourth Thursday of the month schedule. We look forward to seeing you again next year.

For questions, call Beth Lamont at 914-588-5284 or e-mail HSMNY Executive Director Stephen James at info.hsmny@corliss-lamont.org .

Note: This HSMNY Chapter Meeting Announcement Notice can be found on the HSMNY Web site at http://bit.ly/1vzjojh .