[act-ma] 2/20 Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's challenge to globalization at JP Forum.

[Charlie Welch]

Co-editors of the book "Dignity and Defiance," about Bolivia's 
'rebellion from below', will be speaking in Boston/Jamaica Plain on 
February 20th

Speakers: Co-editors, Jim Shultz & Melissa Draper and collaborator
Roberto Fernández Terán

Jamaica Plain Forum
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eliot Street (at the Monument)
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

For more information: http://jamaicaplainforum.org/

About the book:  Dignity and Defiance is a powerfull, well-crafted,
eyewitness account, of Bolivia's rebellion from below. Readers will
find compelling first person accounts of Bolivia's historic water
revolt; of a massive Shell-Enron oil spill and its aftermath; of a
nation's battle to control its oil and gas; and of one people's
dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund. Here too is the story of those
seeking out globalization's opportunities, from indigenous weaving
communities to emigrants, transplanted to three continents.

Bolivia's story is emblematic of the major political and social
transformation underway throughout Latin America today. This book
brings readers into that story at a human level, through the eye of
skilled writers who blend together deep research and compelling
narrative to bring a nation's story to life.