NEW YORK CITY
JUNE 7
7 pm
New York University
Tischman Auditorium
with Amy Goodman
LOS ANGELES
JUNE 11
7 pm
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center
SAN FRANCISCO
JUNE 13
7 pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
CHICAGO
JUNE 16
11:30 am and 7:30 pm
Socialism 2007 Conference
Chicago Crowne Plaza O’Hare
FILMMAKER AND AUTHOR
JOHN PILGER
ON TOUR
Download the official tour flier here.
JOHN PILGER is one of the world’s preeminent investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In his new book, FREEDOM NEXT TIME, he looks at five countries in which a long struggle has taken place yet the people are still waiting for freedom.
In addition to discussing his new book, Pilger will be screening his new film, THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY, for the first time in the U.S. Two years in the making, it is his first major film for the cinema. It explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and Chile.
“JOHN PILGER’S work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration.”
—NOAM CHOMSKY
Sponosred by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change and The Nation Institute with support from the Wallace Global Fund.
For more information about the tour, visit www.cersc.org or e-mail info@cersc.org.
NEW YORK CITY
FREEDOM NEXT TIME: AN EVENING WITH JOHN PILGER AND AMY GOODMAN
Pilger will discuss his new book, Freedom Next Time (Nation Books), with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! They will consider Iraq, Palestine, India, South Africa, and the island of Diego Garcia, where the long struggle for freedom has taken place, but the people are still waiting for its dream to be realized.
Thursday
June 7
7 PM
Doors open 6:15 PM
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
$5 admission; free for students with ID
A book signing of Freedom Next Time by Pilger and Static by Goodman will follow the event.
Presented by The New School, the Center for Economic Research and Social Change, and The Nation Institute, with support from the Wallace Global Fund.
For ticket information, contact (212) 229-5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu.
For media inquiries, contact (212) 209-5407 or ruth@thenation.com.
For more information, visit http://www.newschool.edu/publicprograms or e-mail pilgerny@gmail.com
LOS ANGELES
FREEDOM NEXT TIME: AN EVENING WITH JOHN PILGER
Pilger will discuss his new book, Freedom Next Time (Nation Books) and show his film Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror. This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Washington, looks at President Bush’s “war on terror” and the “liberation” of countries where bloodshed and repression continue.
Monday
June 11
7 PM
Doors open 6:00 PM
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (http://www.jaccc.org)
The JACCC is located at: 244 S. San Pedro Street (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, just blocks away from the Los Angeles Music Center and the new Disney Hall. Followed by audience dialogue and a book signing.
$5 admission
A book signing of Freedom Next Time and other books by John Pilger will follow the event.
Directions, maps, and parking info at: http://www.jaccc.org/directions.htm
Presented by The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, and The Nation Institute, with support from the Wallace Global Fund.
For ticket information, call or visit the JACCC. Box office: 213-680-3700 (Box Office Hours: Monday - Saturday: Noon - 5 pm)
For media inquiries, contact (212) 209-5407 or ruth@thenation.com.
For more information, email pilger.la@gmail.com
SAN FRANCISCO
FREEDOM NEXT TIME: AN EVENING WITH JOHN PILGER
Pilger will discuss his new book, Freedom Next Time (Nation Books) and show his film Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror. This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Washington, looks at President Bush’s “war on terror” and the “liberation” of countries where bloodshed and repression continue. Followed by audience dialogue and a book signing.
Wednesday
June 13
7 PM
Doors open 6:00 PM
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (http://www.ybca.org/)
701 Mission Street at Third
$15 general, $5 students
A book signing of Freedom Next Time and other books by John Pilger will follow the event.
Presented by The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, The Nation Institute, and KPFA, with support from the Wallace Global Fund.
For ticket information, call 415-978-2787 or order online at http://www.ybca.org/. In person tickets at YBCA Box office located inside the Galleries and Forum Building, 701 Mission Street at Third. (Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun: noon - 5 pm; Thu: noon - 8 pm.)
For media inquiries, contact (212) 209-5407 or ruth@thenation.com.
For more information, email pilgersf@gmail.com
CHICAGO
FREEDOM NEXT TIME: A DISCUSSION WITH JOHN PILGER
In his morning session, Pilger will discuss his new book, Freedom Next Time (Nation Books) and also engage in a conversation with Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, followed by audience dialogue and a book-signing.
In his evening session, Pilger will speak at a rally with other prominent international activists fighting for justice.
Saturday
June 16
two appearances at the Socialism 2007 conference (http://www.socialismconference.org/): 11:30 AM (followed by book signing) and 7:30 PM
Chicago Crowne Plaza O’Hare
5440 North River Road, Rosemont, IL 60018
http://www.crowneplazaohare.com/
Regular registration - whole conference: $85
Weekend Rate - Saturday and Sunday only: $70
Single day: $35
Single session: $10
Presented by The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, The Nation Institute, with support from the Wallace Global Fund. Co-sponors Obrera Socialista, Socialist Worker, International Socialist Review, and Haymarket Books.
For ticket information, call 773-583-8665 or e-mail info@socialismconference.org
For media inquiries, contact (212) 209-5407 or ruth@thenation.com.
For more information, email info@socialismconference.org
About the book:
“This highly informed, thoughtful and passionate work is an important a thread in the world’s growing tapestry of political counter-narratives as those of Dee Brown or Howard Zinn.” —Publishers Weekly (STARRED review)
“Pilger draws on meticulous research and interviews to uncover the human cost of the skullduggery of the imperial powers in Diego Garcia as well as Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa, and Palestine as the U.S. and Britain have heartlessly put their interests ahead of those citizens of weaker nations.” —Booklist
“Freedom Next Time allows us to hear the personal testimonies of those challenging power. The array of interviews with the voiceless and abused provides an indispensable corrective to the litany of disinformation we are fed by the media, and for this achievement Pilger is surely the most outstanding journalist in the world today.” —The Guardian (UK)
Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire is award-winning journalist John Pilger’s vital examination of five countries’ struggle toward freedom. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, elation swept South Africa as its people finally dared to dream that a different world was possible. But as John Pilger movingly describes, true freedom remains a dream deferred.
In Freedom Next Time Pilger examines five counties -- South Africa, India, Palestine, Afghanistan and the forgotten Chagos Islands - to reveal populations for whom the promise of true democracy remains elusive. His vivid eyewitness reporting and incisive interviews expose the lies of our rulers, turning a piercing searchlight onto events that would otherwise be consigned to the shadows by an unrecognized, yet virulent censorship.
With his signature compassion and keen eye for detail, Pilger gives his reader a close study of the realities of these war-torn nations, In one of the most revealing chapters, Pilger offers one of the few journalistic studies of Britain’s forced depopulation of the Chagos islands in the 1960s and 1970s. He describes a document drawn up by British planners in 1968, titled “maintaining the fiction,” that argued that the islanders were not permanent inhabitants. When Pilger asks Olivier Bancoult, the Chagossians’ leader in exile, “What upsets you most?” He replies, “the lie that we didn’t exist.” Today the island remains a U.S. military base, to which the Chagossians have been unable to return, despite a grant from the High Court.
In Freedom Next Time Pilger gives voice to those who would otherwise remain silent, and in so doing salutes those who refuse to be defined as victims.
For more information, visit: www.johnpilger.com.
John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter throughout his career, and currently writes for the New Statesman, The Guardian, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, among others. He has twice won British journalism’s highest award, Journalist of the Year, for his work all over the world, notably in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has been International Reporter of the Year and winner of the United Nations Association Peace Prize and Gold Medal. For his broadcasting, he has won France’s Reporter Sans Frontieres, an American television Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Richard Dimbleby Award, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He has made 57 documentary films, most of them shown on ITV network television in the UK and around the world. In 2003, he received the prestigious Sophie Prize for “thirty years of exposing deception and furthering human rights.” He holds numerous honorary degrees from British, Scottish and Irish universities. He is a Frank H.T. Rhodes Visiting Professor at Cornell University, New York. He is the author of many books including The New Rulers of the World.
Freedom Next Time:
Resisting the Empire
by John Pilger
Nation Books / June 5, 2007
ISBN 1-56858-326-5 / 376 pp./ $16.95 / trade paperback
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