Retirement Savings in the Dark
For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.

Tuesday, March 1, 7 to 8:30 PM @ Porter Square Books
25 White St. * Cambridge, Mass. 02140 * (Located in mall across from Porter Square Stop on the Red Line). Come to the after-party for special guest Sal Rosselli, president of the new National Union of Healthcare Workers in California, from 8:30 to 11 p.m. at Christopher's Bar, 1920 Massachusetts Ave.
Steve Early, longtime Boston-area union organizer and activist, discusses The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? This new book takes a critical look at the costly fights within progressive unions that erupted between 2008 and 2010 and the external threats facing labor today. For more information on the book, see www.civilwarsinlabor.org or call 617-930-7327.