TODAY: Online/Phone Interview with Brian Tokar. What is climate justice?
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- please distribute widely -What is climate justice? What is the climate justice movement? How did it start, what has it done and where is it going? Why is it important that we understand its trajectory? With abrupt changes to earth's systems, the continuing destruction wrought by global capitalism, and the absolute failure of world governance in the face of the global emergency, why must we all be part of the climate justice movement? How has this movement been influential in the COP global climate talks and in the present debates within the U.S. presidential elections? Should it be working at that level, or is it much more important that we talk about front-line activism? Come, participate in the discussion as this month's SCNCC interview welcomes Brian Tokar and activist, academic, writer and historian of the climate justice movement.
North American Web/Phone Conference
Monday, Sept. 5 (Labour Day!!!) - 8:30pm (eastern) or 5:30pm (pacific)
Join a special on-line and phone-in interview with Brian Tokar
Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a well-known critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s. He has been the director of the Institute for Social Ecology and is currently a Lecturer in Environmental Studies at UVM. Brian's books include The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change, which was reissued in an expanded and revised edition by the New Compass Press in 2014. He edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited a recent collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (with UVM Professor Emeritus, Fred Magdoff). His articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and Green Social Thought, and on popular websites such as Counterpunch, ZNet, Common Dreams, Popular Resistance, and Toward Freedom.
Brian has lectured throughout the U.S., as well as internationally, received a Project Censored award for his investigative history of Monsanto (originally published in The Ecologist), and was an organizer of the annual “Biojustice” protests focused on the biotechnology industry from 2000 - 2007. He is a board member of 350Vermont, as well as a contributor to the Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement, A Line in the Tar Sands, and other recent books. Brian also represents UVM's part-time faculty on the Executive Council of the faculty union, United Academics.
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SCNCC Interview with Brian Tokar
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