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The best democracy money can buy

AAA | 13.06.2003 10:36

Bestselling author and investigative journalist (BBC, Guardian) GREG PALAST talks about THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY ("Courageous reporting... read this book!" - Michael Moore, author of Stupid White Men) in London from Saturday 14th to Thursday 19th June 2003.

Ask questions to the reporter who broke the story on:

* the US Presidential Election fraud
* how Team Bush spiked FBI probes into Al Qaeda
* US involvement in the Venezuelan coup and counter-coup
* and, of course, Lobbygate...

Schedule: Saturday 14th, 11am-1pm. The Corporate/Financial Takeover of Democracy, with Le Monde Diplomatique. Café Diplo, French Institute, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7. £2/£1

Tuesday 17th, 6.30-9pm. King's College public meeting, speaking with Human Rights Campaigner Bianca Jagger on the legality of the war and the neo-conservative agenda. B5 Auditorium, Franklin Wilkins Building, Stamford St, Waterloo, SE1. £5/£3 (students), tickets must be bought in advance from Blackwell's, 100 Charing Cross Road, WC2.

Wednesday 18th, 7pm-9pm. Greg Palast on War, Imperialism and Labour, presented by Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism. Discussion about post-war reconstruction in Iraq, the New World Order and war on terror, the British role in Iraq and why New Labour aligned itself with the neo-cons. London School of Economics, Room G108, 20 Kingsway, WC2.

Thursday 19th, 4pm: Techno-Trance Peace Signing @ Access All Areas, 117 Kentish Town Road, NW1. Talk and Q&A on the fusion between the Peace and Dance Movements since the Vietnam War.
6.30-8.30: Silence of the Media Lambs, sponsored by NUJ, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Presswise. NUJ conference room, 308 Grays Inn Road, WC1.

For more info call Charley on 07970 113770 or see www.gregpalast.com

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