"Dignity and Defiance, Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization"




CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio] show

Summary: <img src="http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/2008-2009/images/wbh-090224-shultzdraper.jpg" alt="shultzdraper book cover" align="left">A talk by authors Jim Shultz &amp; Melissa Crane Draper. (Moderated by Jerome McDonnell, host of Chicago Public Radio's Worldview.) Author Jim Shultz is founder and Executive Director of the San Francisco based Democracy Center and has lived and worked in Bolivia for much of the past decade, chronicling grassroots movements to control exploitation of Bolivia's natural resources, from water resources to oil and natural gas. With Melissa Crane Draper and other Democracy Center affiliates, Shultz places Bolivians' struggles in a broader context of Latin America's experiences with forces of globalization. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.