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DESCRIPTION:Tired of simplistic media stereotypes and speaking only to like-minded 
 people, San Francisco radio journalist Rose Aguilar quit her job, bought a 
 Toyota van, and took off on a six-month road trip through southern and 
 mountain states. There she interviewed a wide array of people who rarely, 
 if ever, appear in the national media. They include a former Republican 
 evangelical pastor who now preaches inclusion in Tulsa; anti-war, 
 pro-choice, and green Republicans; and a Montana hunter planning to leave 
 his job as a conservationist to fight for gay rights. This political 
 travelogue challenges stereotypes and goes far beyond the sound bites and 
 statistics to reveal what "red-state" voters really care about and what 
 they expect from their political leaders.\n\nSections include:\n\n*Domestic 
 Violence Changed My Politics\n*The Last Abortion Clinic in 
 Mississippi\n*Conflicted Christians\n*Who Supports the Troops?\n*Segregated 
 Sundays\n*Overworked and Underpaid\n*Off the Front Lines and 
 Forgotten\n*Green Republicans\n*From Poverty to Politics\n \nAbout the 
 author:\n \nRose Aguilar is a radio host and journalist from San Francisco. 
 She is a contributor to the book Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots 
 Resistance in the Heartland. She hosts Your Call, a daily public affairs 
 radio show on NPR-affiliate KALW 91.7 FM, writes for Alternet.org, and 
 offers political analysis for the BBC.\n \nYour Call airs weekdays from 11 
 am – noon PST on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa 
 Cruz:\nhttp://www.yourcallradio.org/\n \n“Red Highways is riveting -- I 
 could not put it down. Alive with the voices of real people, it is both 
 heartening and heart wrenching, both enraging and inspiring, full of 
 insights and information. If you want to understand our country, and care 
 about its future, read this book!”\n-Riane Eisler, author of The Real 
 Wealth of Nations and The Chalice and The Blade\n \n“Red Highways takes 
 us out of our personal 'Green Zones' to taste the diverse complexity of 
 so-called conservative states, and challenges stereotypes reinforced by the 
 corporate media. For mindless drivel from a pundit, watch CNN; for a clear 
 view of what people of various political ideologies in the U.S. want, 
 think, and believe, read this book.”\n-Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the 
 Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied 
 Iraq\n\n“Straight-ahead reporting on a road trip into the heart of Red 
 State America for urban liberals who cannot (or dare not) make the tour 
 themselves. Full of surprises.”\n-Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting 
 with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War\n \n“The ‘red’ 
 state of Idaho is a hotbed of opposition to the Patriot Act. The ‘blue’ 
 state of Connecticut sends ardent backers of the war in Iraq to Congress. 
 America is neither so red as Republicans would imagine, nor so blue as 
 Democrats hope. It is, in fact, a rich, complicated, at times frightening, 
 at times reassuring shade of purple that Rose Aguilar captures not with the 
 jaundiced eye of a political commentator but with the nuance of a 
 novelist.”\n-John Nichols, political writer, The Nation\n \n“Red 
 Highways is a trip through the USA’s byways, far beyond what the author 
 calls “the media’s obsession with stereotypes.” Rose Aguilar takes us 
 along as the rubber meets the road—and guides us through a remarkable 
 quest for human substance instead of media clichés.”\n-Norman Solomon, 
 author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare 
 State\n \n“Rose Aguilar brings curiosity and compassion to this beautiful 
 story of a diehard liberal’s journey into the soul of middle 
 America.”\n-Harvard University Professor Linda Bilmes, co-author of The 
 Three Trillion Dollar War\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/01/18547902.php
SUMMARY:Rose Aguilar reads from "Red Highways"
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way\nBerkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/01/18547902.php
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