Feb 10: John Ross Speaks at New College: "The Evo/Zapatista Divide"

Friday, February 10th at 7 PM
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco

JOHN ROSS speaks on
Which Way for Latin America's Indians? - The Evo/Zapatista Divide

With introductory remarks by Tim Redmond, Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian

Poet/correspondent/author/activist John Ross will speak on Which Way for Latin America's Indians? – the Evo/Zapatista Divide at the New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street on Friday, February 10th.

Ross, who has been traveling with the Zapatistas in Mexico, will also report back on their Other Campaign, an anti-electoral effort featuring Subcomandante Marcos that is shadowing Mexico's 2006 presidential elections.

John Ross, an independent muckraker, has been reporting from the underbelly of Latin America for the better part of four decades. His work appears regularly in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Noticias Aliadas (Lima), the Texas Observer, Counterpunch (on line), and La Jornada in Mexico City. Ross is the author of three award-winning volumes on the Zapatista rebellion which he has covered since its early hours and is currently working on a fourth, Making Another World Possible – Zapatista Chronicles 2000-2006 to be published by Nation Books this fall.

Which Way for Latin America's Indians? is sponsored by the New College Media Studies Program, Global Exchange, Media Alliance, Chiapas Support Committee, AK Press.

There is a $5 dollar donation at the door but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For further information call Jon Garfield at 415-437-3425.