University Library News Release
Date: February 12, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jeanette Smith, NMSU Library, (505) 646-7492, jcsmith@lib.nmsu.edu
John Ross to Speak on Global Resistance
Author/poet/correspondent and globetrotting troublemaker John Ross will present "Voices of Global Resistance" on Wednesday, February 21, at 3:30 p.m. in the fourth floor gallery of New Mexico State University's Branson Library.
Ross will read poems and narratives of global resistance from Iraq to Oaxaca and Palestine to Chiapas. Ross will also present his fourth volume on the Zapatista rebellion Making Another World Possible - Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006, and perform incendiary poems from his new chapbook Bomba! His books will be available for sale and signing.
Ross, who has just returned from a reporting tour of southern Mexican hot spots, says "Mexico is in an uproar."
John Ross is the author of eight volumes of fiction and non-fiction, including the recently released Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible, his fourth volume on the Zapatista rebellion. He received both the American Book Award and the coveted Upton Sinclair Prize for Murdered by Capitalism - 150 Years of Life and Death on the American Left.
Also known as a stand-up poet and graduate of the Beat Generation, Ross is the author of nine chapbooks.
A rebel journalist with nearly fifty years on the front lines, Ross is a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Noticias Aliadas (Lima), The Nation, Counterpunch and KPFA's Flashpoints. The Mexico City daily, La Jornada, has called John Ross "the new John Reed covering a new Mexican revolution."
For more information, please contact Molly Molloy (505) 646-6931 or mmolloy@lib.nmsu.edu, or Daniel Smith at (505) 646-5492 or dlsmith@lib.nmsu.edu.
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