Crime of Empire Launched in LA

Ricco Alejandro Santos's new book challenges conventional view of the world and globalization and gives its readers an exciting and productive intellectual opportunity to sharpen one's analysis and perspective on today's burning global issues.

By Bulatlat.com

The Center for Philippine Studies in conjunction with Philippine Science High School batch '71 and classmates of the author of the book being launched held a well-attended and successful forum and book launching entitled, "Globalization And Third World Poverty" last Oct. 4 at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, Los Angeles, California.

The center point of the discussion were cases against globalization and third world exploitation as discussed in the book, Crime Of Empire: A Case Against Globalization and Third World Poverty as a World System, authored by Ricco Alejandro M. Santos.

The book challenges conventional view of the world and globalization and gives its readers an exciting and productive intellectual opportunity to sharpen one's analysis and perspective on today's burning global issues.

The forum cum book launching was also highlighted by a power point presentation of Crime of Empire and a panel discussion with Carol Almeda of Migrante International and Paula Solomon of UCLA Labor Center as panelists.

A video greeting by author Santos was also shown.

Santos also wrote Beyond the Surface:  A Theoretical  Framework for the Analysis of Modes of Production in the Philippines, a political-economic study published in Davao City (Philippines) in 1990. 

A research consultant for a number of non-government organizations, Santos designed a mode of production survey for Moro and non-Moro areas in Mindanao in 1986-1988, covering more than 1,200 respondent households.  He has also been writing for people's organizations.

He is also a member of the Center for Anti-Imperialist Studies (CAIS). He writes economic analyses for Bulatlat.com. Bulatlat.com.

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