September 7th, 4:45 PM, Jeff Conant speaks at Cornell University!
Jeff Conant discusses A Poetics of Resistance at the office of the
Committee on US-Latin American Relations at Cornell University!
September 9, 6:30 PM: Jeff Conant on CCTV in Burlington, Vermont!
Jeff Conant discusses his new book, The Poetics of Resistance, on the
Center for Media & Democracy’s CCTV with Global Justice Ecology
Project and Upside Down World. http://www.cctv.org/ for more info.
September 10, TBA: Jeff Conant at the Global Justice Ecology Project’s
annual celebration
Jeff Conant discusses A Poetics of Resistance in Hinesburg, Vermont!
September 11, 7PM: Jeff Conant at Black Sheep Books!
Jeff Conant discusses A Poetics of Resistance at Montpelier’s favorite
collectively run bookstore! http://www.blacksheepbooks.org for more info.
September 13, 7PM: Jeff Conant at Bluestockings Books!
The Poetics of Resistance Road Show hits New York City with a book
release event at Bluestockings Books on NYC’s Lower-East
Side. http://bluestockings.com for more info.
September 15, 6PM: Jeff Conant reads at the Bowery Poetry Club
Jeff Conant underscores the cultural importance of the Zapatistas with
a reading at NYC’s Bowery Poetry Club. http://www.bowerypoetry.com for
more info.
September 20, 7PM: Jeff Conant at Firestorm Books in Asheville! 2
nights!
Jeff Conant does a double-header at Asheville’s swingin’ worker-owned
bookstore & cafe, Firestorm. September 20: A Poetics of Resistance;
September 21: A Guide to Community Environmental
Health. http://www.firestormcafe.com for more info.
September 23, 7PM: Jeff Conant at Internationalist Books
September 26, 1PM: Jeff Conant, Marina Sitrin, and Ben Dangl on
Lessons from Latin America at the Radical Bookfair Pavilion in
Baltimore
Three AK gringos discuss the lessons to be learned from the Latin
American political and cultural spectrum. What could be better?! http://www.redemmas.org/bookfair for more info!
September 28, noon: Jeff Conant at Johns Hopkins University
A talk at JHU sponsored by the Program in Latin American
Studies. Location TBA.
September 28, 6PM: Jeff Conant at Busboys & Poets Books in DC!
Jeff Conant discusses A Poetics of Resistance in conversation with the
Institute for Policy Studies. Co-sponsored by Teaching for Change
Books! http://www.busboysandpoets.com for more info.
September 29, 7PM: Jeff Conant at Food for Thought Books in Amherst!
The Poetics of Resistance tour hits Amherst for a evening discussion
at Food for Thought books. http://www.foodforthoughtbooks.com for more info.
September 30, 7PM: Jeff Conant in discussion with Doyle Canning at
SmartMeme
Jeff Conant visits Boston for an event at the SmartMeme Design
Studio. http://www.smartmeme.org for more info.
She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."
The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, an essay collection compiled by Flanders, appeared in June, 2004 from the Feminist Press.
Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco.
Flanders' TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and "Paula Zahn Now" as well as "The O'Reilly Factor," and "Hannity and Colmes," "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the CBC news discussion program, "CounterSpin."
Her writing appears in The Nation, Alternet, Ms. Magazine, and elsewhere and her op-ed pieces have appeared in papers including The San Francisco Chronicle.
Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program.
Shie is also the author of Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997) about which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Katha Pollitt called it "Funny, angry, factfilled and brilliant."
