Friday, May 25th
DAM NATION: DISPATCHES FROM THE WATER UNDERGROUND
Booklaunch with editors Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Laura Allen, and July Oskar
Cole
at AK Press 674-A 23rd Street, Oakland 94612 (btwn MLK & San Pablo)
7:30 PM, FREE (but we'll be accepting donations)

RIVER LOVERS! GREYWATER PLUMBERS! INNOVATIVE IRRIGATORS! WATER DRINKERS!
We've got a book for you! Join us for the Bay Area release of DAM NATION, a
new book on water movements and river restoration worldwide. DAM NATION
combines environmental victories in the sustainable-use movement with
hands-on, participatory options for country and city dwellers. Through their
own experiments with alternative water systems and thousands of hours of
interviews with innovators from around the world, the authors create a
comprehensive plan for re-using household water, constructing miniature
wetlands, and improving our communities' physical and political healths.

"The politics of water - as this brilliant anthology makes clear - are the
politics of human survival. Read this, and believe me, you'll never flush
with the same equanimity again."
-Mike Davis, author of CITY OF QUARTZ and DEAD CITIES

This release event will include:
*Slide show featuring anti-dam struggles, ecological sanitation, and river
restoration projects
*Discussion of local restoration work and regional initiatives
*The secrets of guerrilla greywater plumbing
*Special showing of DEMISE OF DAM NATION--a compilation of cinematic dam
failures and catastrophes.

For more information on the book, go to:
http://akpress.org/2007/items/damnationdispatchesfromthewaterunderground

More information: 510-208-1700 or http://www.akpress.org