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DESCRIPTION:A San Francisco radio host grown tired of media stereotypes, Rose Aguilar 
 held an auction to raise money, bought a van, and set out on a six-month 
 road trip through the red-state South and West to find out what voters and 
 non-voters really care about. \n\nAlong the way, she met pro-choice 
 Republicans, an evangelical conservative bishop who now preaches inclusion 
 in Tulsa, OK, a woman who changed her politics after running a domestic 
 violence shelter in Jackson, MS, a hunter in Montana who is thinking about 
 leaving the conservation movement to fight for gay rights in Montana, and 
 green Republicans. \n\nEqual parts travelogue, political reportage, and 
 personal discovery, Red Highways challenges conventional wisdom, gives a 
 voice to people we rarely hear from, and calls for a more thoughtful and 
 productive dialogue between Red and Blue America. Now that the election is 
 over, it's time to build coalitions! \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\nAguilar breaks 
 shallow stereotypes by traveling through states that usually vote 
 Republican—Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, and Montana—to talk to 
 people of all political stripes about the issues they truly care about and 
 what they expect from politicians. \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*Native America \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\nAdditional Praise: \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/2009/01/12/18562410.php
SUMMARY:Rose Aguilar reads from "Red Highways"
LOCATION:Book Passage\n51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\nCorte Madera, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/12/18562410.php
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