CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW! Red Emma's is thrilled to welcome back author and filmmaker Michael Fox and his fellow editors of the new PM Press book, Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots! It's a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela's social movements, and we've just gotten the book in stock, and are happy to report that it looks phenomenal. From community media to land reform; cooperatives to communal councils, from the labor movement to the Afro- Venezuelan network, Venezuela Speaks! sheds light on the complex realities within the Bolivarian Revolution. These interviews offer a compelling oral history of Venezuela's democratic revolution, from the bottom up. Don't miss it! 

 "Michael Fox, Carlos Martinez, and JoJo Farrell cut through the mist that usually surrounds discussions of Venezuela to enter a world of impressive political and cultural diversity. Venezuela Speaks! is a geography of struggle, a sociology of passion, and an ethnography of hope, of the unrelenting insistence that people have a right to control their own lives, and that in doing so, a better world will be made." --Greg Grandin, author of Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism. 

Michael Fox is a freelance journalist, translator, reporter and documentary film maker based in South America. He is a former staff reporter for Venezuelanlaysis, a radio correspondant for Free Speech Radio News, and his articles have been published with Yes Magazine, Earth Island Journal, NACLA and The Nation online. Last year, Michael and Sílvia Leindecker, a Brazilian documentary film maker, a philosopher and independent photographer, helped to co-found the internet Radio Venezuela en Vivo, which broadcasted live coverage from Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Referendum. Based in between Venezuela and Brazil, Michael and Sílvia have for many years been researching and covering the growth in the region's participatory democracy- cooperatives, Brazil's participatory budgeting and Venezuela's communal councils. Michael's and Sílvia's first full length documentary film "Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas" is set to be released in September 2008. It takes viewers across the Americas to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy?