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DESCRIPTION:AN EVENING WITH REBEL AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST, AND POET 
 JOHN ROSS\n\n\n-Thursday, November 21, 7– 9 pm\nNew College Theater\n777 
 Valencia Street, San Francisco. \n\n\nLive Video Webcast: go to:\nclick 
 here for video \n\n\nLegendary journalist John Ross speaks on\n"The 
 Geography of Globalization in Southern Mexico”, with an update on 
 the\nZapatista Dream...\n\n\n- Sponsored by Global Exchange and New College 
 of California. \n\n\n$5 donation. \n\n\nJohn Ross will address the complex 
 issues surrounding the Plan Puebla Panama\n(PPP) and the potential effect 
 it will have on the struggle for indigenous\nrights and autonomy in 
 Southern Mexico. Ross, the author of three books on\nthe Zapatista 
 rebellion in Southern Mexico, will also offer an update on the\nhealth of 
 that near-decade-long but still-very-pertinent social 
 insurrection.\n\n\nPlan Puebla Panama (PPP) is a mega project which seeks 
 to open up the\nsouthern half of Mexico and Central America to private 
 foreign investment\nand establishing the foundation for the Free Trade Area 
 of the Americas\n(FTAA). The plan depends upon multi-lateral development 
 bank support and\nprivate investment to create infrastructure that will 
 attract industry and\nexpand natural resource extraction. With the 
 Inter-American Development Bank\nas the head of the PPP's financial 
 structure and major credit and technical\nassistance coming from the 
 International Monetary Fund and World Bank, among\nothers, controversial 
 projects have already begun.\n\n\nThis is the first step in the latest push 
 to globalize the Americas with the\nend goal of incorporating all of the 
 Western Hemisphere (except Cuba) under\nthe FTAA. Essentially the PPP will 
 create development corridors from the 9\nsouthern Mexican states of Puebla, 
 Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco,\nCampeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, 
 through the most southern Central\nAmerican country of Panama. The PPP will 
 create an elaborate infrastructure\nof ports, highways, airports, and 
 railways aimed to connect the development\nof the petroleum, energy, 
 maquiladora, and agricultural industries. While\nthe PPP's proponents 
 assert that its main objective is to improve the\nquality of life for area 
 inhabitants, critics of the Plan see it as an\nattempt to exploit the 
 abundant, cheap labor force and precious natural\nresources in order to 
 attract foreign investment eager to reap the benefits\nof an area stricken 
 with poverty and rich in biodiversity.\n\n\nJohn Ross, legendary journalist 
 and a longtime Mexico City resident, is the\nauthor of six books - 
 including “The War Against Oblivion” (2001), the eight\nyear saga of 
 the Mayan Indian rebellion in Chiapas, and “The Annexation of\nMexico – 
 From the Aztecs to the IMF” (1997).  Ross is a winner of the\nAmerican 
 Book Award for the first of his three volumes on the Zapatista\nrebellion 
 in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. A working correspondent\n(LA 
 Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Texas Observer), Ross also 
 publishes\nan on-line weekly newsletter “Mexico Barbaro.” Ross, now 65, 
 is considered a\nyounger beat generation poet and has eight chapbooks of 
 poetry in and out of\nprint. His newest book is soon-to-be-published - 
 “Murdered by Capitalism,” a\nself-described memoir of 150 years of life 
 and death on the American Left.\n\nContact: Kien, Global Exchange, 
 kien@globalexchange.org, 415-575-5545\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/13133.php
SUMMARY:John Ross on Globalization in Southern Mexico
LOCATION:New College Theater\n777 Valencia Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/13133.php
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