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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">May
25th, 7:00 pm at the Odyssey Bookstore, S.
Hadley<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></DIV>
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT size=3>“Whispering in the Giant’s Ear”
is the first book relating the </FONT></I></SPAN><FONT size=3><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Indian
protests, anti-Americanism, and left-wing movement that climaxed in December
2005 with the election of an anti-U.S. coca farmer as president of
</SPAN></I><st1:country-region><st1:place><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bolivia</SPAN></I></st1:place></st1:country-region><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, the first
full Indian president of the hemisphere since the Spanish Conquest.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></FONT></DIV>
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<U>May 25th at </U></SPAN><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="19"><U><SPAN
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will be in the Five Colleges area launching his controversial and inspiring new
book at The Odyssey Bookstore (</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Village Commons,
</SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">9 College St.
South</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Hadley</SPAN><SPAN
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The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Popular Economics. Powers will read
from the book and facilitate a lively discussion. Bolivian coca tea will be
served!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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more information: <A
href="http://www.williampowersbooks.com">www.williampowersbooks.com</A></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">“Powers
did not just witness the change; he was immersed in the action, forced to juggle
the country’s internal conflict with his environmental organization’s mission of
saving the rain forest… What results is a deeply personal and informative
chronicle of Powers’ ambitions, the Indians’ ambitions and perhaps most
importantly in a country as physically diverse and dramatic as
</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bolivia</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">,
nature’s ambitions.”<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">—Publishers
Weekly</I></B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Bolivia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
the poorest South American country, is emerging as a world flashpoint with its
recent nationalization of gas and oil companies. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><st1:country-region><st1:place>Bolivia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is also ecologically significant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The Bolivian Amazon is the site of the world’s largest and most ambitious
forest-based Kyoto Protocol project, an attempt to decelerate the progression of
global warming.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Witness and participant of these on-going events is
<st1:PersonName>William Powers</st1:PersonName>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In his memoir, <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">WHISPERING IN THE GIANT’S EAR: A Frontline
Chronicle from Bolivia’s War on Globalization</B> (<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Bloomsbury; 1-59691-103-4; May 18, 2006;
$16.95; paperback original; 320 pages)</I>, Powers chronicles Boliva’s attempt
to engage the world and save its Indian culture and rainforests.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In 2001, after a two year stint as
an aid worker in brutal
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Powers
arrived in
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Bolivia</st1:place></st1:country-region> to serve
as an administrator for a large international aid agency.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One year later, after having secured two
promotions to deputy country director, Powers resigned from his post, abandoned
his almost-penthouse apartment in La Paz, and headed into the Bolivian Amazon to
work for a local NGO—FAN (Friends of Nature Foundation)—for a local Bolivian
salary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>In the rainforest, Powers befriends
<st1:City><st1:place>Salvador</st1:place></st1:City>, an extraordinary
Chiquitano Indian leader fighting to save the jungle and his people from
extinction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He and FAN join three
multinational energy corporations in a tenuous relationship to operate a crucial
Kyoto Protocol project—using forests to absorb dangerous planetary greenhouse
gasses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The project is endangered
when <st1:City><st1:place>Salvador</st1:place></st1:City> begins to leave the
forest to fight the racist Bolivian government and threatens to seize the forest
from the project for the local Chiquitanos to log and farm coca for their
survival. Powers’ hands-on experience and relationships with a vast spectrum of
Bolivians informs his memoir with the knowledge of an “insider.”</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">W<SPAN
style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">illiam</SPAN> P<SPAN
style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">owers</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> has worked for over a decade in development
aid and conservation in </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Latin America</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">, </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Africa</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">, </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Washington</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">, </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">D.C.</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">, and Native North America. His project in
the Bolivian Amazon won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard’s
John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global
issues have appeared in the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New York
Times </I>and on National Public Radio<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.
</I>Mr. Powers has worked at the World Bank, and holds international relations
degrees from </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Brown</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> and </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Georgetown</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">’s </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">School</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> of </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Foreign
Service</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">. Raised on </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Long Island</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">, he is currently on assignment with
Conservation International in </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">La Paz</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Bolivia</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">. He is the author of the
</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Liberia</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'"> memoir <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Blue Clay
People</I>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>