Swim Against The Current - Jim Hightower tour schedule

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Houston, TX: KPFT Reception -- 3/19/2008
6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Houston, TX: KPFT Event -- 3/19/2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Austin, TX: Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Fundraiser -- 3/20/2008
5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Texas Observer blog 3/18/08
Hightower Hits Houston

Regular readers will be pleased to learn that former Observer editor and syndicated columnist/rabble-rouser Jim Hightower is back between hardcovers with Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow (John Wiley & Sons). A breezily positive-thinking antidote to the necessary negativity that pervades so much of the non-mainstream muckraking media (mea culpa! mea culpa!), Swim Against the Current unearths the success stories of activists, dissidents and go-their-own-way go-getters who’ve abandoned apathy and found ways to buck whatever oppressive, greed-guided or simply wrongheaded system was telling them no. It’s downright inspirational.

And in the spirit of doing well by doing good, Hightower and co-author/accomplice Susan DeMarco are celebrating the book’s release with a "hoo-rah" and booksigning on Thursday, March 20, from 5 to 8 pm at Austin’s Boggy Creek Farm (3414 Lyons Road; 512-926-4650). There’ll be music by The Lovers and La Strada, plenty of local food and drink, and, as befits an event promoting the work of a former Texas Ag Commissioner, the $10 suggested donation benefits the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.

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