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Juan González Talk and Book Signing at the University of Maryland

College Park, MD

September 30, 2017 | Saturday | 5:00 pm

University of Maryland

Adele Stamp Student Union
3972 Campus Dr
College Park, MD 20742 ( see map )
The University of Maryland’s Department of Anthropology is hosting a conference on the “Latino Diaspora and the Great Central American Migration.” The conference will include a 5 p.m. screening of the “Harvest of Empire” film by Democracy Now!’s Juan González followed by a public talk on his new book RECLAIMING GOTHAM: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities. Juan will sign books after the talk.

Juan González

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Juan González has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years and was a staff columnist at the New York Daily News from 1987 to 2016. He is a two-time recipient of the George Polk Award for commentary (1998 and 2010), and the first reporter in New York City to consistently expose the health effects arising from the September 11, 2001...