Thursday, November 29, 2007  Spoken Word, Borders and Juan
Felipe Herrera  187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border:
Undocuments 1971-2007 by Juan Felipe Herrera November 15, 2007
978-0-87286-462-7 $16.95   Catch the 187 Express! Addressing
immigration issues with dynamic innovation, the 187 Express tour
launched on Nov. 15, 2007 at City Lights Books in San Francisco.
Herrera, frequently accompanied by guest artists, will present a
mix of spoken word performances, music, and poetry throughout
the Border States and up and down California.  Herrera has spent
the last three and half decades assembling the collection found
in 187 Reasons – at rallies, walkouts, under fire and on the
run, in cafés, under helicopters and in the midst of thousands
of marchers for civil rights and new immigration policies.
Raised in the fields of California in a family of migrant
workers, Herrera has blended art and activism for over 30 years
as a pioneer of the Chicano spoken word movement. Juan Felipe
Herrera is Professor of