Charlie Hardy, author of Cowboy in Caracas on a Midwest tour: Venezuela’s Democratic Revolution & Chavez: A View from Venezuela
Tuesday Feb. 16, 2:20-3:30pm
Dominican University. 7900 W. Division, Parmer 108
Wednesday Feb. 17, 2:30-4:30pm
Harper College room J149, 1200 W. Algonquin, Road, Palatine
Thursday Feb. 18, 12noon
8th Day Center for Justice, 205 W. Monroe , #500
Thursday, February 18, 7pm
Access Living, 2nd fl. Conference Room, 115 W. Chicago Ave.
Friday, February 19, 4-6pm
Venezuela Consulate, 20 N Wacker Dr., Suite 1925
Sunday, February 21, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
Milwaukee Latin America Solidarity Committee
Monday, Feb. 22, 5:40 -7pm
Northeastern Illinois Univ, 5500 N. St. Louis, Golden Eagles Room
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Charlie Hardy is still available for further speaking engagements and interviews
Charlie Hardy, a former Catholic priest from Wyoming , works with the poor of the barrios of Caracas Venezuela . Hear about the Bolivarian revolution from their viewpoint. Saul Landau described Charlie’s book as “an antidote to the poisonous US government mantra against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Ironically, Cowboy isn't about Chávez, but about the exciting processes he has helped initiate and about the awakening of Venezuela 's poor whom the US media neglects.”
"Charles Hardy has given us a unique perspective on the Chávista revolution as viewed from a cardboard shack on a hillside barrio in Caracas . Writing in a graceful and conversational style in a series of vignettes, Hardy conveys with genuine affection and admiration the dignity and courage of the ordinary people of Venezuela --people whom the Western media, ensconced in fine hotels or tony apartments, only know as maids and waiters. A reader comes away understanding both why Hugo Chávez is loved by these people--and why the U.S. Government is trying so hard to oust him. With the Bush administration still trying to demonize Chávez and his backers, this book is a must read for all Americans--a must read that you won't be able to put down."--Dave Lindorff, columnist for Counterpunch and co-author with Barbara Olshansky, of The Case for Impeachment ( St. Martin 's Press, 2006)
"Before we take one more bite of the toxic propaganda sandwich our government offers us to nourish their view that Hugo Chávez is a monster suppressing the poor of Venezuela , read this fine book by Charles Hardy, a former Catholic priest from the United States who spent 8 years tending and nurturing the poor in the cardboard slums of Caracas . Even if you choose to ignore that Chávez was democratically elected three times by his own people and defended by them from a US instigated coup, this book will make indelibly clear, the
economic horror and chaos foisted on the Venezuelan people by the IMF, World Bank, and free-market privateers. When you understand the grinding, debilitating poverty our nation and its institutions have wrought on the Venezuelan people, it will take you a long way toward appreciating the Presidency of the man they consider their savior, Hugo Chávez. Read this important book, and drop the propaganda sandwich in the trash where it belongs."--Peter Coyote, actor/writer
If you would like to interview, meet with, or invite Charlie Hardy to speak, call Stan Smith, 773-376-7521, or email Stansfieldsmith@ yahoo.com. (Latin American Solidarity Coalition, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5) |
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