I had the pleasure of hearing Jim Hightower speak today!

He was absolutely brilliant. If you have a chance to see him GO!! :^D

~Jen

Jim Hightower's Explosive New Book: 'Thieves In High Places'

AUSTIN, TX - August 7 - Jim Hightower, America¹s most popular populist and all around political sparkplug, is back with 'THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES: They¹ve Stolen Our Country and It¹s Time to Take It Back'. Starting on Monday, August 18, he'll take his uniquely optimistic message of grassroots politics to audiences across the country with a 25-city tour.
Click here to view Hightower's upcoming tour schedule, which includes stops in New York, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Philadelphia and Austin, Texas .

In every town, Hightower will be collaborating with local grassroots activist groups to raise awareness on key issues, plus he'll be teaming with TrueMajority and GOTV organizers to channel energy from the crowds into direct political action.

"This book is a rallying cry to take our country back from the corporate and political kleptocrats that are squeezing the heart out of our America -- small businesses, middle-class workers, family farmers, and other enterprising, grassroots folks," Hightower says.

"My hope is that THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES will awaken readers not only to what we're losing in America, but more importantly, to the phenomenal future we have if we only reassert our democratic values and focus on our grassroots strength," he says. "My basic message is one of hope, that individual citizens can make a difference."

For more information on THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES, click here.

America is at an historic divide between rulers and rulees‹and the rulees are restless. Hightower¹s THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES is an epistle to the American people about vision and choices. The question Jim Hightower is asking is: What kind of country do you want America to be? Not only for you, but for your childrenŠand theirs?

In THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES Hightower takes on the Bushites, the Wobblycrats, and the corporate Kleptocrats, digging up behind-the scenes dirt that the corporate media overlooks‹like BushCo¹s "Friday Night Massacres", what¹s happened to our food, and the Bush plan for empire. Hightower exposes invasions of privacy, the military budget (and where the money is going), sprawl, deregulation, and how Wal-Mart has reshaped the American business landscape (not for the better) and shows us how a small yet powerful elite in our country have taken control of the small farmers, main street businesses, consumers, the working class and the poor.

But it is not all bad news, THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES highlights the grassroots organizations that are making a difference in this country, standing up to corporations, fighting to keep libraries open and taking on Wal-Mart. Drawing on his Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour, Hightower continues to tap into the thriving activist networks that are our country¹s grassroots muscle, and his book tells their uplifting stories of retaking control of their communities and how to turn our complaining into positive reforms.

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, columnist, and the bestselling author of If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates and There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. More than one hundred thousand people subscribe to his monthly Hightower Lowdown Newsletter, while his radio show is aired on more than one hundred public and commercial radio stations.

For more information on the Hightower Lowdown, his syndicated radio commentaries, newspaper columns, speaking schedule or CDs, click here.

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