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DESCRIPTION:Media Advisory: February 26, 2011\n\nContact: Sacramento Action for Latin 
 America (SALA), 916-457-5018 or caac2 [at] copper.net\n\n\nBen Dangl to 
 discuss Dancing with Dynamite, a new book about Latin American social 
 movements\n\nAward-winning journalist Ben Dangl discusses his new book, 
 Dancing with Dynamite, on the dynamics between social movements and 
 progressive governments in Latin America at the Southside Park Co-housing 
 Common House, 434 T St. Sacramento, on Monday, March 7 at 7 pm.  Eric Vega, 
 Chicano community activist, will introduce the speaker.\n\nIn the past 
 decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing 
 left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations 
 between the streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite, 
 award-winning journalist Benjamin Dangl explores the complex ways these 
 movements have worked with, against, and independently of national 
 governments. From dynamite-wielding miners in Bolivia to the struggles of 
 landless farmers in Brazil and Paraguay, Dangl discusses the dance between 
 movements and states in seven different Latin American countries. Using 
 original research, lively prose, and extensive interviews with workers, 
 farmers, and politicians, he suggests how Latin American social movement 
 strategies could be applied internationally to build a better world now. 
 \n\nBenjamin Dangl has worked as a journalist throughout Latin America for 
 the Guardian Unlimited, The Nation, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. 
 He is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements 
 in Bolivia, the editor of TowardFreedom.com, a progressive perspective on 
 world events and UpsideDownWorld.org, a website on activism and politics in 
 Latin America. He teaches South American history and globalization at 
 Burlington College. Email: Bendangl(at)gmail(dot)com.\n\nThe event is 
 sponsored by the Sacramento Action for Latin America (SALA), formerly the 
 Central America Action Committee (CAAC). For more information, contact: 
 916-457-5018 or caac2 [at] copper.net\n\n“Ben Dangl breaks the sound 
 barrier, exploding many myths about Latin America that are all-too-often 
 amplified by the corporate media in the United States.  Read this 
 much-needed book.”—Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!\n\n“Dancing 
 with Dynamite dares to navigate the cloudy waters of Latin American social 
 movements in the wake of the neoliberal wave, something which increasingly 
 fewer thinkers and activists dare to do, but which turns out to be 
 urgent.”—Raúl Zibechi, Uruguayan journalist and author of Dispersing 
 Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces\n\n“Dangl brings complicated 
 politics to life by infusing them with the magic, mystery and unbridled joy 
 that invigorate social movements and permeate Latin American life in 
 general.”—Kari Lydersen, author of Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago 
 Factory Takeover and What it Says About the Economic Crisis.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/04/18673857.php
SUMMARY:Ben Dangl to discuss Dancing with Dynamite
LOCATION:Southside Park Co-housing Common House, 434 T St. Sacramento\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/04/18673857.php
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