Speaking Visit to the San Francisco Bay Area -- All Welcome!

Dear Friends (old ones and new ones!) in the San Francisco Bay Area

I am coming your way and, in the midst of showing my four-year-old daughter what it means to Trick or Treat, I am doing a public event about Bolivia. Please join me if you can and bring friends. It will be great to see you.

Best wishes to all!

Jim Shultz


Bolivia and What it Teaches us About Real Democracy

Speaker: Jim Shultz, Executive Director of The Democracy Center, Cochabamba, Bolivia

When: Wednesday, November 8th @ 7pm

Where: New College, 780 Valencia St. between 18th and 19th Streets, in San Francisco's Mission District (16th and Mission BART), in the "Creamery" Room

Admission: Free, of course!

A Little More Information:

Since its historic water revolt against the San Francisco-based Bechtel Corporation in 2000, Bolivia has caught world attention for its popular resistance to globalization rules imposed from abroad. That attention and interest has only grown since last December's election of Evo Morales as the nation's first indigenous president.

Jim Shultz, who was a Bay Area-based social justice activist for decades, has lived in Bolivia since 1998. His reports on the Cochabamba Water Revolt brought the rebellion to world attention and his ongoing reporting on Bolivia is featured in newspapers, magazines and radio across the US, Europe and Canada. He, along with the rest of The Democracy Center team in Cochabamba, is about to publish a new book: Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization.