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From: "David B. Briones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: April 26, 2007 9:58:45 AM PDT
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Subject: [narconews] Al Giordano’s Northeast Tour Expands in May 2007
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April 26, 2007
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May 2 at Robin’s Bookstore in Philly, May 4 at Red Emma’s in
Baltimore, and More Events Added
By Chris Fee
Narco News Newsroom Coordinator
Following a series of lectures, workshops, fundraising events and
book readings in New England and New York, Narco News founder and
publisher Al Giordano's Northeast tour has been extended into the
month of May, heading farther both south and north.
At each stop, he brings collector's edition proofs of Nancy Davies'
"The People Decide: Oaxaca's Popular Assembly" (2007, Narco News
Books, with appendix by George Salzman and a preface by Al) and DVDs
of video newsreels from Narco News' 2006 coverage of the Zapatista
Other Campaign in Mexico.
More important, Al reports, is that he is meeting so many Narco News
readers and co-publishers face-to-face, and is hearing ideas,
proposals and contributions that help us do this work of reporting
about the drug war and democracy from Latin America. I saw how it
happens in New York last week. More on that in a moment, but first...
Here are some of the upcoming events that Al will attend:
Wednesday, May 2: A talk at Robin's Bookstore in Philadelphia (6
p.m., at 108 South 13th Street), the city's oldest independent
bookstore, about the social struggles in Oaxaca and the rest of
Mexico highlighting the experiences of Nancy Davies and other Narco
News reporters that continue to bring and translate the news.
Collector's edition proofs of "The People Decide: Oaxaca's Popular
Assembly" will be made available there.
Thursday, May 3: An "Authentic Journalism 101" workshop in
Philadelphia that is open only to affiliate organizations and
individuals of the Media Mobilizing Project.
Friday, May 4: A book event at Red Emma's Bookstore and Coffee House
in Baltimore (7 p.m. at 2640 St. Paul Street) where you can also grab
a copy of the collector's edition of Davies' book:
"From the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas to the streets of insurgent
Oaxaca, from the killing fields of the war on drugs to the heights of
the new Latin American popular insurgency, Al Giordano and Narco News
have for the past seven years been the most consistently dead-on
sources of information about developments south of the U.S. border.
Combining journalistic integrity with a commitment to justice, Narco
News has been an essential tool for anyone wanting to break through
the corporate media's veil of ignorance and disinformation regarding
Latin America. On his first U.S. tour in ten years, founder and
editor Al Giordano will be offering his perspective on authentic
journalism and recent developments in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin
America."
Mid-May: Events to be announced in New York City and Cape Cod in
Massachusetts (contact Al directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're
in either of those areas and want to be involved).
May 19: Narco News will have a table at the Montreal Anarchist Book
Fair, "the largest anarchist gathering in North America." (9 a.m. to
6 p.m. at CEDA, 2515 Delise, near the Lionel-Groulx metro stop). If
you can help staff the table please contact Al at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
May 21: Reunion of the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance and
the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in the Montpelier, Vermont area.
(If you are a video photographer in that region, and can help Al
conduct some interviews there for the The Village Square Clamshell
Alliance archiving project, please write him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
May 22:Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont, on "Oaxaca, Chiapas,
and the Other Campaign: Organizational Models from Below." Nancy
Davies' book will also be available there:
"With a new and repressive regime above, and increasingly rebellious
social movements from below, Mexico is on the verge of a wider
conflict. Al Giordano will share his eyewitness observations from ten
years on the ground in Mexico, and travels during 2006 throughout the
Mexican Republic reporting on Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos's
national "Other Campaign" tour. He will provide background and
context about the Popular Assembly movement in Oaxaca, document the
electoral fraud of July 2006 that imposed an illegitimate president
on the country, and offer some possible scenarios of what could come
next. Also, he'll show two or three brief video newsreels from Narco
News' 2006 Other Campaign coverage."
Al's first extended visit to the United States in the past decade has
brought us back in contact with valued old friends and collaborators
and made us many new ones. We are therefore considering the
possibility of sending him on a September-October tour in other parts
of the country. If you are a student or professor at a university and
would like to sponsor a lecture or workshop by Al in the fall, please
contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had the pleasure of attending the Narco News Seventh Anniversary
Celebration in New York on April 18, where I met an amazing group of
colleagues. Journalists from our Other Journalism with the Other
Campaign project spoke: Kristin Bricker, Joshua Bregman, Simon
Fitzgerald, Barrett Hawes, R.J. Maccani and Mark Swier told of their
experiences last year accompanying Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos on
his national tour of Mexico and reporting it through Narco News. The
gracious hostess Marianne Vitale served up a delicious feast of
seafood and vegetarian fare. I met Michele Stoddard of The Fund for
Authentic Journalism there, and investigative journalists including
Mike Ruppert, Cynthia Cotts, Paul DiRienzo, and Joannie Moossy, the
photojournalist Lionel Delvigne, and also Johanna Lawrenson of the
Abbie Hoffman Activist Foundation. Cha-Cha Connor (of Supermodels for
Oaxaca) and Kelley Gaunt performed great music with Al and his Dobro
guitar. And so many other talented and committed people came from far
and wide. I agreed with Mike Ruppert who commented that the event
"gave us hope," which is no small thing in this day and age.
Now that I'm back "somewhere in a country called América," I know now
more than ever that these kinds of gatherings north of the border are
so vital to our work down here. They not only help keep the project
going financially, but they also deepen our international "safety
net" of friends and allies, and provide us with fresh plans and ideas
that come from all of you who attend them. I'm sure it will be that
way, too, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Montreal, Montpelier and the
next stops along the tour. We hope you can be part of it.
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