Democracy Center Book Tour is Coming to the U.S.A.

The Democracy Center Book Tour is Coming to the U.S.A.!

Dear Friends,

The Democracy Center's new book, Dignity and Defiance, Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization (University of California Press) is now for sale. We hope that you will buy it and read it! And the Democracy Center's U.S. tour for the book - more than 25 events in a dozen cities - begins next week. Please come and join us! Details about how to order the book and where to find us on the book tour are below. And to our friends in the media, we are happy to do interviews anywhere along the road.

Researching, writing and publishing Dignity and Defiance has been the major work of the Democracy Center for the past three years. And now we are ready to bring it to you, our friends and readers. In San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Santa Fe, Washington, New York, Boston, Twin Cities, Chicago and other stops along the way, we hope to see many familiar faces and many new ones as well. Most of the big public events listed below will also feature music, video, and refreshment. A boring book tour is not what we have planned!

We hope to see you soon!

Jim Shultz
The Democracy Center

Dignity and Defiance, Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization

(University of California Press)

"This is the little-known story of a people that has dared to fight back against the most powerful economic forces on the planet, told by writers with the courage to dig relentlessly for the truth and the humility to stand back and let their subjects speak for themselves. Enraging, unsparing, inspiring."
- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

As the U.S. enters a new political era, what can we learn from one nation's battle to define its own way forward in a globalizing world?

Dignity and Defiance is the story of one country, Bolivia, but it is representative of many countries around the world. The book tells the story of Bolivia's citizen uprisings against the privatization of its natural resources. It travels to jungles and jails to trace the human impact of the U.S. war on drugs. It pedals by bike across the Bolivian highlands to document the disaster left behind by an Enron/Shell oil spill. It digs deep to trace how IMF economic policies led to bloodshed on the steps of the Bolivian Presidential Palace.

Dignity and Defiance also tells the story, from the ground up, of how people have fought courageously to keep globalization from swallowing their lives and to make it work to their benefit - as activists, workers, and immigrants. Ultimately the book is a story of inspiration, and it goes to the heart of what has drawn so much global attention to Bolivia.

HOW TO GET YOUR COPY OF DIGNITY AND DEFIANCE

Order the book today from (click the links):

Amazon.com
University of California Press
Powell's Books

WHERE TO HOOK UP WITH THE DEMOCRACY CENTER BOOK TOUR

"Globalization on the Ground -- What Bolivia Teaches Us"

As the U.S. enters a new political era, the lessons of one country speak volumes about how the government of the U.S., U.S. corporations, and international institutions dominated by the U.S. (the World Bank, IMF, etc.) impact the lives of people in Latin America. Join us as we visit cities coast to coast and in between to talk about these lessons and what lies ahead as U.S. citizens seek to reshape the U.S.'s role in the world. In addition to co-editors Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper, we'll be joined by two great Bolivian friends, Leny Olivera of the Democracy Center, a terrific young activist, and Roberto Fernández Terán, a professor at the University of San Simón and one of our most thoughtful and insightful mentors.

Here are the main public events below. A full calendar of all the events, including a number of smaller ones not listed here, with a list of our sponsors, maps and downloadable flyers (that you can copy and post to help spread the word), can be found at this link.

February 2 - Berkeley, CA
When: 3:00 pm
Where: The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Goldberg Room. 2778 Bancroft Way @ Piedmont Ave.

February 3 - San Francisco, CA
When: 7:00 pm
Where: Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. (between 24th and 25th St.)

February 4 - Marin County, CA
When: 7:00 pm
Where: Redwoods Presbyterian Church, 110 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur

February 5 - Portland, OR
When: 6:00 pm
Where: Portland State University; Smith Memorial Student Union Building (SMSU) Multicultural Center, Room 228, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland

February 6 - Seattle, WA
When: 7:00 pm
Where: University of Washington, HUB 310

February 8 - Albuquerque, NM
When: 2:00 pm
Where: The University of New Mexico, Student Union Building (SUB), Film Center (lower level), 801 Yale NE, Albuquerque
[Part of the Sin Fronteras Film Festival]

February 9 - Santa Fe, NM
When: 6:00 pm
Where: El Museo Cultural, The Santa Fe Railyard
1615 Paseo De Peralta #B, Santa Fe

February 10 - Santa Fe, NM
When: 6:00 pm
Where: St John's College, Junior Common Room, 2nd Floor
Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, Santa Fe

February 12 - Washington DC
When: 6:30 pm
Where: Busboys and Poets, 1390 V St NW @ 14th, Washington

February 13 - Washington DC
When: Noon
Where: George Washington University (The Elliott School), 1957 E St., Suite 505, NW Washington

February 17 - New York, NY
When: 6:00 pm
Where: The New School, 66 W. 12th St., New York

February 19 - Boston, MA
When: 7:00 pm
Where: Boston University, The Jacob Sleeper Auditorium CGS building,
871 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA

February 20 - Boston, MA
When: 7:00 pm
Where: The Jamaica Plain Forum
First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU
6 Eliot St. (across from the monument),
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

February 21 - Northampton, MA
When: 3:00 pm
Where: Smith College, Neilson Browsing Room, Northampton

February 23 - St Paul/Minneapolis, MN
When: 7:00 pm
Where: Macalester College, John B Davis (JBD) Lecture Hall, Campus Center, Lower Level

February 24 - Chicago, IL
When: 6:00 pm
Where: The University of Chicago
International House, 1414 E. 59th St., Chicago

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