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DESCRIPTION:STEALING ELECTIONS NORTH AND SOUTH – MEXICAN RESISTANCE TO U.S. 
 IMPOSITION \n\nA talk by JOHN ROSS\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th 7:00 PM\n\nNEW 
 COLLEGE THEATER, 777 VALENCIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO\n\nIn an electrifying 
 series of reports from Mexico City this summer, author- poet -correspondent 
 John Ross chronicled the resistance of "los de abajo" ("those down below") 
 to the stealing of the 2006 presidential election from leftist Andres 
 Manuel Lopez Obrador and the imposition of right-winger Felipe Calderon in 
 a fraud-marred election that Washington had to win.  Ross, a daily 
 participant in the seven week-long encampment that closed down the Mexican 
 capital, will report back on on-going resistance to the imposition of 
 Calderon, five months of fight back in Oaxaca, Marcos & La Otra, and the 
 death of the Mexican political class – and what it all means for 
 pissed-off U.S. voters.   \n\nSponsored by New College of California Media 
 Studies MA Program.  \n\n$5 donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. 
 \n\nContact: Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425; jon@newcollege.edu .\n\n\nJOHN 
 ROSS is a contributor to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Texas 
 Observer, Noticias Aliadas (Lima), and La Jornada in addition to the 
 on-line left journal Counterpunch.  He has lived in the old quarter of 
 Mexico City for the past 20 years.\n\nTagged by La Jornada, Mexico's left 
 wing daily, as "the new John Reed", author-poet-correspondent-and 
 globetrotting troublemaker John Ross will kick off his 2006 Left Coast tour 
 this October and November with multiple presentations from his hot off the 
 press ZAPATISTAS! Making Another World Possible – Chronicles of 
 Resistance 2000-2006 (Nation Books, New York) and BOMBA! (Calaca de Pelon, 
 Mexico City), his newest and most explosive chapbook of poetry.  \n\nWinner 
 of both the American Book Award and the ACLU's coveted Uppie (for Upton 
 Sinclair) prize, Ross's fourth volume on the Zapatista rebellion, an 
 uprising he has covered since its earli4est hours, chronicles the most 
 underreported and mystifying period of the Mayan rebels' on-going struggle 
 for autonomy, in addition to examining international resistance to 
 neo-liberalism and Bush's war on terror as seen through the Zapatistas' 
 eyes.  The new volume also details the massive fraud in Mexico's July 2nd 
 presidential balloting.  \n\nBOMBA! the author's ninth chapbook of personal 
 and political poetry is dedicated to the struggle of the Palestinian people 
 for a homeland and is inspired by Ross's visits to Palestine to pick in the 
 olive harvest and to Iraq where he was a human shield on the eve of Bush's 
 genocidal war.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/12/18319992.php
SUMMARY:John Ross: "Stealing Elections North and South - Mexican Resistance to US Imposition"
LOCATION:New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/12/18319992.php
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