On December 12th, Sharon Delgado read selections from her new book "Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith led resistance to Corporate Globalization" at the Capitola Book Cafe. She is a Reverend of Earth Justice Ministries, a former organizer with the Resource Center for Nonviolence, and a global justice activist. Delgado outlined portions of her book, and some of the ideas and philosophies behind her resistance to corporate globalization. Read More and Listen to Audio

Delgado, an ordained United Methodist minister who lived in Santa Cruz until recently, served as pastor of First United Methodist Church on California Street in the 1990s. Rev. Sharon Delgado organized delegations to Seattle (in late 1999) and to Cancun (in 2003), where Santa Cruz residents joined people from around the world to witness and to protest the workings of the WTO.