Freedom Next Time: An Evening With John Pilger

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Don't miss award-winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger
(http://www.johnpilger.com/) on tour this June. He will be making
appearances in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.

John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative
journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of
reportage have in the words of Noam Chomsky "been a beacon of light
in often dark times."

FREEDOM NEXT TIME: AN EVENING WITH JOHN PILGER

Pilger will discuss his new book, Freedom Next Time (Nation Books)
and show his film Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on
Terror. This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Washington, looks at
President Bush's "war on terror" and the "liberation" of countries
where bloodshed and repression continue. Followed by audience
dialogue and a book signing.

Wednesday
June 13
7 PM
Doors open 6:00 PM

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (http://www.ybca.org/)
701 Mission Street at Third

$15 general, $5 students

A book signing of Freedom Next Time and other books by John Pilger
will follow the event.

Presented by The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, The
Nation Institute, and KPFA, with support from the Wallace Global Fund.

For ticket information, call 415-978-2787 or order online at
http://www.ybca.org/. In person tickets at YBCA Box office located
inside the Galleries and Forum Building, 701 Mission Street at Third.
(Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun: noon - 5 pm; Thu: noon - 8 pm.)

For media inquiries, contact (212) 209-5407 or ruth [at] nationbooks.org

For more information, email pilgersf [at] gmail.com

About the book:

"This highly informed, thoughtful and passionate work is an
important a thread in the world's growing tapestry of political
counter-narratives as those of Dee Brown or Howard Zinn."
--Publishers Weekly (STARRED review)

"Pilger draws on meticulous research and interviews to uncover the
human cost of the skullduggery of the imperial powers in Diego Garcia
as well as Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa, and Palestine as the U.S.
and Britain have heartlessly put their interests ahead of those
citizens of weaker nations." --Booklist

"Freedom Next Time allows us to hear the personal testimonies of
those challenging power. The array of interviews with the voiceless
and abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of
disinformation we are fed by the media, and for this achievement
Pilger is surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today.
--The Guardian (UK)

Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire is award-winning journalist
John Pilger's vital examination of five countries' struggle toward
freedom. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990,
elation swept South Africa as its people finally dared to dream that
a different world was possible. But as John Pilger movingly
describes, true freedom remains a dream deferred.

In Freedom Next Time Pilger examines five counties -- South Africa,
India, Palestine, Afghanistan and the forgotten Chagos Islands -- to
reveal populations for whom the promise of true democracy remains
elusive. His vivid eyewitness reporting and incisive interviews
expose the lies of our rulers, turning a piercing searchlight onto
events that would otherwise be consigned to the shadows by an
unrecognized, yet virulent censorship.

With his signature compassion and keen eye for detail, Pilger gives
his reader a close study of the realities of these war-torn nations.
In one of the most revealing chapters, Pilger offers one of the few
journalistic studies of Britain's forced depopulation of the Chagos
islands in the 1960s and 1970s. He describes a document drawn up by
British planners in 1968, titled "maintaining the fiction," that
argued that the islanders were not permanent inhabitants. When Pilger
asks Olivier Bancoult, the Chagossians' leader in exile, "What upsets
you most?" He replies, "the lie that we didn't exist." Today the
island remains a U.S. military base, to which the Chagossians have
been unable to return, despite a grant from the High Court.

In Freedom Next Time Pilger gives voice to those who would otherwise
remain silent, and in so doing salutes those who refuse to be defined
as victims.

For more information, visit: http://www.johnpilger.com.

John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author, and documentary
filmmaker who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia,
before moving to London in the 1960s. He has been a foreign
correspondent and a front-line war reporter throughout his career,
and currently writes for the New Statesman, The Guardian, New York
Times, and Los Angeles Times, among others. He has twice won British
journalism's highest award, Journalist of the Year, for his work all
over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been
International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations
Association Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has
won France's Reporter Sans Frontieres, an American television Academy
Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British
Academy of Film and Television Arts. He has made 57 documentary
films, most of them shown on ITV network television in the UK and
around the world. In 2003, he received the prestigious Sophie Prize
for "thirty years of exposing deception and furthering human rights."
He holds numerous honorary degrees from British, Scottish and Irish
universities. He is a Frank H.T. Rhodes Visiting Professor at Cornell
University, New York. He is the author of many books including The
New Rulers of the World.

Freedom Next Time:
Resisting the Empire
by John Pilger
Nation Books / June 5, 2007
ISBN 1-56858-326-5 / 376 pp./ $16.95 / trade paperback


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http://www.johnpilger.com/

http://www.nationbooks.org/

http://www.cersc.org/