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Greg Palast in Cambridge Friday!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saurabh Asthana)
Mon Mar 3 16:54:42 2003
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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:48:58 -0500
From: Saurabh Asthana <graft@genovevo.net>
Please forward widely.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 23, 2003
** GREG PALAST BOOK TOUR **
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m.
First Parish Church in Harvard Sq.,
Cambridge, MA
Suggested donation - $10 to $12.
"World's greatest investigative reporter" to speak in
Cambridge
Palast authored NY Times bestseller about the theft of
the 2000 presidential election
Investigative reporter Greg Palast will speak on
Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m. at the First Parish Church
in Harvard Square, as a fundraiser for the Boston
Independent Media Center.
Palast broke the story of how Katherine Harris and Jeb
Bush removed thousands of Black and Democratic voters
from Florida's registration rolls prior to the 2000
presidential election. The series of revelations first
appeared in The Nation, The Washington Post, Harper's,
The Guardian, and in Salon.com which named the exposé
"Politics Story of the Year."
Palast went on to pen the NY Times bestseller, "The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative
Reporter Exposes the Truth About Globalization,
Corporate Cons and High Finance."
The new, special US edition of "The Best Democracy
Money Can Buy" is out in paperback from Plume-Penguin,
featuring more than 100 pages of new investigative
material, including:
Who is ringing the cash register on the USA Patriot
Act.
Why the Bush administration is silent about Saudi
support for terrorism.
The real story of Iraq's nuclear program: "Follow the
money -- YOUR money."
These provocative exposes -- as well as groundbreaking
reports on the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade
Organization, Wal-Mart and more -- are included in
this collection of Palast's most incendiary stories.
Greg Palast is an award-winning reporter for BBC
Television and The Guardian of London and a columnist
for the London Observer. His extraordinary reports
have been front-page news in Europe, yet blocked out
of mainstream media in the United States. The
Cleveland Free Times calls Palast "The world's
greatest investigative reporter you've never heard
of."
Palast says the major U.S. news outlets neglect real
investigative reporting and shy away from controversy,
but he adds, "The public is HUNGRY for truth."
The event is a fundraiser for the Boston Independent
Media Center (http://boston.indymedia.org). The IMC is
a global network of collectively run media outlets for
the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate
tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and
inspiration for people who continue to work for a
better world, despite corporate media's distortions
and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free
humanity.
For more information about the Boston Independent
Media Center, please call 617-623-8462, e-mail
imc-boston-office@indymedia.org, or visit our web page
at boston.indymedia.org.
For more information about Greg Palast, visit
www.gregpalast.com.
