FROM THE BOTTOM! JOHN ROSS REPORTS BACK FROM THE MEXICAN UPHEAVAL

Author/correspondent/poet/and globetrotting troublemaker John Ross delivers a report from the social upheaval in Mexico that followed the stealing of the 2006 presidential election, and its message for frustrated U.S. voters.

Ross will also discuss the months-long popular uprising in Oaxaca and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation’s Other Campaign and the challenges this nation-wide grassroots campaign presents to in-coming president Felipe Calderon.

John Ross will also be reading excerpts from the third book in his series chronicling the Zapatista rebellion. His new book, Zapatistas!: Making Another World Possible (Nation Books, 2006) chronicles the last six years of the rebellion ­ a phase where the Zapatistas have been below the media radar and a period where Ross argues that the Zapatistas have been “Changing the World Without Taking Power.”

Part John Reed, part magical realist poet, Ross reveals the extraordinary events in Chiapas and explores the unique political experiment the Zapatistas have pioneered.

Sunday, February 25th
8:00 PM
MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop (53rd and Ave. F)
for information or directions call 512-407-6925