BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18423657 SEQUENCE:18437426 CREATED:20070602T092400Z DESCRIPTION:Please announce and forward widely!\n\nDon't miss award-winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger \n(http://www.johnpilger.com/) on tour this June. He will be making \nappearances in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.\n\nJohn Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative \njournalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of \nreportage have in the words of Noam Chomsky "been a beacon of light \nin often dark times."\n\nFREEDOM NEXT TIME: AN EVENING WITH JOHN PILGER\n\nPilger will discuss his new book, Freedom Next Time (Nation Books) \nand show his film Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on \nTerror. This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Washington, looks at \nPresident Bush's "war on terror" and the "liberation" of countries \nwhere bloodshed and repression continue. Followed by audience \ndialogue and a book signing.\n\nWednesday\nJune 13\n7 PM\nDoors open 6:00 PM\n\nYerba Buena Center for the Arts (http://www.ybca.org/)\n701 Mission Street at Third\n\n$15 general, $5 students\n\nA book signing of Freedom Next Time and other books by John Pilger \nwill follow the event.\n\nPresented by The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, The \nNation Institute, and KPFA, with support from the Wallace Global Fund.\n\nFor ticket information, call 415-978-2787 or order online at \nhttp://www.ybca.org/. In person tickets at YBCA Box office located \ninside the Galleries and Forum Building, 701 Mission Street at Third. \n(Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun: noon - 5 pm; Thu: noon - 8 pm.)\n\nFor media inquiries, contact (212) 209-5407 or ruth@nationbooks.org\n\nFor more information, email pilgersf@gmail.com\n\nAbout the book:\n\n "This highly informed, thoughtful and passionate work is an \nimportant a thread in the world's growing tapestry of political \ncounter-narratives as those of Dee Brown or Howard Zinn."\n--Publishers Weekly (STARRED review)\n\n"Pilger draws on meticulous research and interviews to uncover the \nhuman cost of the skullduggery of the imperial powers in Diego Garcia \nas well as Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa, and Palestine as the U.S. \nand Britain have heartlessly put their interests ahead of those \ncitizens of weaker nations." --Booklist\n\n"Freedom Next Time allows us to hear the personal testimonies of \nthose challenging power. The array of interviews with the voiceless \nand abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of \ndisinformation we are fed by the media, and for this achievement \nPilger is surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today.\n--The Guardian (UK)\n\nFreedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire is award-winning journalist \nJohn Pilger's vital examination of five countries' struggle toward \nfreedom. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, \nelation swept South Africa as its people finally dared to dream that \na different world was possible. But as John Pilger movingly \ndescribes, true freedom remains a dream deferred.\n\nIn Freedom Next Time Pilger examines five counties -- South Africa, \nIndia, Palestine, Afghanistan and the forgotten Chagos Islands -- to \nreveal populations for whom the promise of true democracy remains \nelusive. His vivid eyewitness reporting and incisive interviews \nexpose the lies of our rulers, turning a piercing searchlight onto \nevents that would otherwise be consigned to the shadows by an \nunrecognized, yet virulent censorship.\n\nWith his signature compassion and keen eye for detail, Pilger gives \nhis reader a close study of the realities of these war-torn nations. \nIn one of the most revealing chapters, Pilger offers one of the few \njournalistic studies of Britain's forced depopulation of the Chagos \nislands in the 1960s and 1970s. He describes a document drawn up by \nBritish planners in 1968, titled "maintaining the fiction," that \nargued that the islanders were not permanent inhabitants. When Pilger \nasks Olivier Bancoult, the Chagossians' leader in exile, "What upsets \nyou most?" He replies, "the lie that we didn't exist." Today the \nisland remains a U.S. military base, to which the Chagossians have \nbeen unable to return, despite a grant from the High Court.\n\nIn Freedom Next Time Pilger gives voice to those who would otherwise \nremain silent, and in so doing salutes those who refuse to be defined \nas victims.\n\nFor more information, visit: http://www.johnpilger.com.\n\nJohn Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author, and documentary \nfilmmaker who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, \nbefore moving to London in the 1960s. He has been a foreign \ncorrespondent and a front-line war reporter throughout his career, \nand currently writes for the New Statesman, The Guardian, New York \nTimes, and Los Angeles Times, among others. He has twice won British \njournalism's highest award, Journalist of the Year, for his work all \nover the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been \nInternational Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations \nAssociation Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has \nwon France's Reporter Sans Frontieres, an American television Academy \nAward, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British \nAcademy of Film and Television Arts. He has made 57 documentary \nfilms, most of them shown on ITV network television in the UK and \naround the world. In 2003, he received the prestigious Sophie Prize \nfor "thirty years of exposing deception and furthering human rights." \nHe holds numerous honorary degrees from British, Scottish and Irish \nuniversities. He is a Frank H.T. Rhodes Visiting Professor at Cornell \nUniversity, New York. He is the author of many books including The \nNew Rulers of the World.\n\nFreedom Next Time:\nResisting the Empire\nby John Pilger\nNation Books / June 5, 2007\nISBN 1-56858-326-5 / 376 pp./ $16.95 / trade paperback\n\n\n*\n\nFor more information, visit\n\nhttp://www.johnpilger.com/\n\nhttp://www.nationbooks.org/\n\nhttp://www.cersc.org/\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/02/18423657.php SUMMARY:Freedom Next Time: An Evening With John Pilger LOCATION:Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (http://www.ybca.org/)\n701 Mission Street at Third URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/02/18423657.php DTSTART:20070614T010000Z DTEND:20070614T050000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR