The Palmerton Area Democratic Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Palmerton Hotel, 302 Delaware Ave., Palmerton.

Bowmanstown resident Ben Price will discuss his new book “How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property.” This event is free and open to the public.

Price will also explain “how the Fourteenth Amendment that emancipated African-American slaves from their status as property was used by a reactionary Supreme Court to grant legal ‘personhood’ to private corporations.”

Optional dinner and a social hour will precede the meeting at 6 p.m.

RSVP for dinner to Sue Olivia at 610-826-7975 or solivia@ptd.net with menu choices by 8 p.m. Monday.

Meetings are held monthly at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month from September to May.

Newcomers are welcome.

For more information, contact Club President Sarina Berlow at sarinaberlow@gmail.com, or 610-597-0106.