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Friday, March 21st - 7 PM at First Unitarian Church Downtown Portland at SW 12th Ave. and Main Street Meet David Cay Johnston, author of

FREE LUNCH How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Government Expense (And Stick You With The Bill) “Free Lunch consists of 26 chapters, each a case study of a corporation enriching itself through lax or solicitous government: beggar-thy-neighbor state and local tax breaks to lure businesses, government subsidies for sports stadium construction, electricity deregulation and so on…. The stories, generally convincing, are rendered in an unremitting tone of blunt, you’re-getting-shafted outrage.” -Jonathan Chait, The New York Times Book Review “Angry and brilliant.” -Froma Harrop, Providence Journal “Johnston's red-hot argument puts him right in the middle of the economic populism burning through Election '08.” -Tom Ashbrook, WBUR Radio / On Point “A powerful, if sprawling, populist kick in the gut.” -Eamon Javors, BusinessWeek “All of us should read David Cay Johnston’s new book before we vote.” -Kel Munger, Sacramento News & Review “[Johnston] does a masterful job of lining up previous reports like guns in a firing squad aimed at most Americans. When a reader is done, he feels like a poor slob damned to be running through a never-ending gantlet of pickpockets.” -Avrum D. Lank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “David Cay Johnston is a muckraker of a kind we don’t often see anymore…The New York Times’ Pulitzerwinning tax correspondent is committed to exposing the malfeasances of the rich and powerful, and his indefatigable reporting consistently turns up evidence that justifies his fury.” -The Week “Johnston has performed a great public service by pointing out how far we have drifted from our historic commitment to honest government and opportunity for all.” -John Strawn, Portland Oregonian

Presented by the Economic Justice Action Group of First Unitarian Church of Portland Suggested $5-$20 donations. No one turned away.