Event Listing - Literary Arts

Wed Mar 26 - Thu Mar 27

Global Exchange, KPFA, Stacey's and Cody's Present

Jim Hightower returns

to exhort us to Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.

Location	Date and Time
San Francisco Locations
Horace Mann Middle School 3351 23rd St # D San Francisco, CA 94110 district: San Francisco	Wed Mar 26 (7:30 PM)
Berkeley Locations
First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94704 map cross street: Dana St district: Berkeley	Thu Mar 27 (7:30 PM)

Description

Don't look around, but the corporate and political powers that be want you to put this book down, right now. It definitely is NOT on their approved list. SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT is one of those books that the power elites don't like seeing in stores -- not merely because it challenges their established order, but especially because Jim reveals paths that anyone can use to escape rigid, hierarchical structures and discover a bit more satisfaction in life.

But as a friend of Jim's puts it: "Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." It's the uplifting stories of mavericks that he tells here. They've broken free of the corporate tentacles, free of business-as-usual politics, free of top-down elites. They're figuring out new ways to do commerce, ways to create political channels that empower grassroots Americans, and ways to live their lives. As these folks show, resistance is not futile . . . it's fertile.