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DESCRIPTION:Hey all,\nI wanted to let you know about an interesting event coming up on 
 Tuesday.  John Ross, an important journalist, poet and activist who lives 
 in Mexico and has travelled to Palestine and Iraq will speaking at the 
 Oakes Learning Center on Tuesday Oct. 24 at 7:30pm.\n\n"ZAPATISTAS!" & 
 "BOMBA!" – LEFT COAST TOUR \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 –\nChronicles 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\nZAPATISTAS! Is Ross's eight published work of fiction and non-fiction 
 and follows on the heels of his highly praised autobiography "Murdered By 
 Capitalism – 150 Years of Life & Death on the U.S. Left" which earned 
 kudos from Beat Generation\nGodfather Lawrence Ferlinghetti and America's 
 most elusive novelist Thomas Pynchon who called the work "a rip snorting 
 and honorable account of an American outlaw tradition." In praising \nthe 
 volume, Harper's John Leonard noted "Ross was in no more danger of selling 
 out than he is of finding a buyer." \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\neve of Bush's genocidal war.\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\nthe old quarter of  Mexico City for the past 
 20 years.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/23/18322702.php
SUMMARY:Mexico: John Ross speaking at UCSC
LOCATION:Oakes Learning Center\nUC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/23/18322702.php
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