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JUN. 20 2011 @ Tecolote Bookstore (5pm)

Date: June 20, 2011 Time: 5pm – 7pm Address: Tecolote Bookstore,470 E Valley Rd in Montecito For directions & to RSVP call Anita Green at 310-869-4119 Please join us for some wine and hors d\'oevres to hear about this unique anthology of 45 factual stories written and edited by the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers and with a forward by best-selling author Raj Patel. Jared Sacks, the book\'s compiler and founder of the charity Children of South Africa (CHOSA), will be with us all the way from Cape Town, South Africa. He will speak about this community\'s struggle against forced evictions, institutional racism and poverty and what we can do to support their movement for social change. -- Proceeds from book sales will go to the Symphony Way community. Donations to CHOSA will support grassroots initiatives empowering communities to take care of orphaned and other vulnerable children in South Africa. Acclaim: “A beauty, extraordinary in every way.\' Naomi Klein, best-selling author of \'The Shock Doctrine\' and \'No Logo\' “This is a story of horror conjugated with hope, compellingly told with a brutal directness and an eloquence.” Peter McLaren, Professor in the Graduate School of Education, UCLA “A magnificent and moving account ... A clarion call for basic human rights and for human dignity.” Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor of Geography & Development Studies, UC-Berkeley “This book carries not only the suffering of the Symphony Way communities but of the millions of poor people of the world.” S\'bu Zikode, leader of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement, South Africa


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JUL. 15 2011 @ The Hard To Find -7190 Hollister Goleta, CA (9pm)