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*THIS* SATURDAY, JUNE 3 -- CARRBORO BOOK FAIR @ THE CARRBORO ARTS CENTER

Readers, writers and lovers of the written word, please join us at the
2nd Annual Carrboro Book Fair!  Participating organizations include AK
Press, Mineshaft Magazine, Parcell Press, Garrett County Press, Feral
House, Daniel 13, Carolina Wren Press, John F. Blair, Crimethinc, SURGE,
The People's Channel and others.  In addition to readings by some great
authors, we'll have storytelling sessions and child care for young ones
from 11am to 2pm.

Readers will include:

Bill Powers (11 AM)
Author of the new novel "Love Is Strong As Death" and father of
William Powers, below.  William F. Powers is the author of three 
previously published books: "Free Priests: The Movement for Ministerial 
Reform in the American Catholic Church"; "Alive and Well: The Emergence 
of the Active Nonagenarian"; and "Tar Heel Catholics: A History of 
Catholicism in North Carolina". Although not autobiographical, "Love is 
Strong as Death" draws from Powers’ experiences as a Roman Catholic 
priest.  After serving in the ministry for ten years, he married and had 
a career as Professor of Sociology.

Hannah Gill (12 PM)
Author of "Going to Carolina del Norte: Narrating Mexican Migrant
Experiences."  Going to Carolina presents the stories of immigrants 
living in Orange County, North Carolina and their families in 
Guanajuato, Mexico.  Immigrants and their families reflect on why and 
how they have settled in the United States (specifically North Carolina) 
and how migration has impacted child-raising, education, gender roles, 
and class divisions in origin communities in Mexico.

Kim Arrington (1 PM)
Founder of Greased Scalp Press and author of "The Lapis Dwellers." 
Activist-singer-teacher-writer Kim Arrington is deeply committed to
her community and is fed by the twin forces of literature and 
performance.  A resident of Durham, NC, Kim founded a publishing house, 
 Greased Scalp Press, to assist first-time authors and underrepresented 
voices with the production of their books.  In August 2005 the press 
released her first volume of poetry, "The Lapis Dwellers," which was 
voted the Independent Weekly’s Best Poetry Book in the Triangle.

William Powers (2 PM)
Author of the new book "Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline 
Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization."  Long the obscure "Tibet 
of South America", Bolivia emerged as a world flashpoint during the four 
years William Powers lived there as an aid worker. CNN and the New York 
Times have shown images of Aymara women in bowler hats standing down 
tanks; citizen protests have ousted multinationals and two 
pro-globalization presidents.  In "Whispering in the Giant's Ear", 
Powers brings alive the recent struggles of the Bolivian people.

Ebony Golden (3 PM)
Author of "the sweet smell of juju funk" and founder of Betty’s
Daughter Literary Press.  Ebony has studied with Willie Perdomo, Saul 
Williams, Ruth Forman, Henry Taylor, Ishmael Reed, Lenard Moore, and a 
host of dynamite artists, activist, and teachers.  Her first poetry 
chapbook, the sweet smell of juju funk was published by her grassroots 
literary press, betty’s daughter, in April 2006.

David Carr (4 PM)
Speaking on the very important topic: "Why we need to buy and read
books."  David Carr is a professor of Library Science at UNC-Chapel 
Hill.  He also leads a book club, The American Postcards Reading Group, 
at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham.

For more information please contact Ethan Clauset at
ethan at interationalistbooks.org or 919-360-8516
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WILLIAM POWERS TOUR

William Powers, the son of our Triangle branch WILPF steering committee 
member Ann Powers, is the author of the Liberia memoir Blue Clay People 
and the just-published and very timely Whispering in the Giant's Ear: a 
Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization .  Powers has 
worked for over a decade in development and conservation in Latin 
America, Africa and Washington DC.  His essays and commentaries on 
global issues have appeared in the New York Times and on national Public 
Radio.

He will be at the Regulator on Friday, June 2, 7pm; at the Carrboro Book 
Fair on Saturday, June 3, 2pm; and at the Chapel Hill Public Library on 
Sunday, June 4, 2-4pm in a program sponsored by Balance and Accuracy in 
Journalism, Triangle branch of Women's International League for Peace 
and Freedom, and the Charles M Jones Peace and Justice Committee of the 
Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist.

For more info, visit www.williampowersbooks.com

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