[opirgyork] Workshop: Renewable Energies, Capitalist Crisis and Class, Struggles: the View from the Global South

[OPIRG York]

Thursday March 10th — Two Toronto Events with Kolya Abramsky, editor of
“Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the
Transition to a Post-Petrol World”

As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a
global struggle is intensifying over who controls this sector, and for
what purposes. The question of "green capitalism" is unavoidable for
capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. From all sides
we hear that it's time to save the planet in order to save the economy,
but what lies before us is the next round of global class struggle with
energy at the center, as the key means of production and subsistence.

Please join us for Kolya Abramsky, editor of the new
anthology, “Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in
the Transition to a Post-Petrol World” for a FREE

Workshop on “Renewable Energies, Capitalist Crisis and Class
Struggles: the View from the Global South”

12:30pm-3:00pm, York University Student Centre, Room 313. (Sponsored by
OPIRG York)

Kolya Abramsky is a former visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced
Studies in Science, Technology and Society, in Graz, Austria, where he
received the Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change
Research, and in 2006 was coordinator of the Danish-based World Wind
Energy Institute, an international effort in non-commercial renewable
energy education, involving different renewable energy centers from
around the world. Abramsky has worked for over a decade with a range of
grassroots social and environmental organizations around the world doing
educational work, international mobilizations, publications and
translations. He is currently coordinating Towards a Worldwide Energy
Revolution, a global project that aims to bring together people from a
wide range of organizations and struggles to build long term alliances
in order to prepare for an anti-capitalist transition to a new energy
system.

More information about the book “Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution”

There are no easy answers in this battle for control of the world's
energy system. “Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution” is not a book of
sound bites. It unpacks the seemingly innocent terms "energy sector" and
"energy system" by situating the current energy crisis, peak oil, and
the transition to a post-petrol future within a historical understanding
of the global, social, economic, political, financial, military, and
ecological relations of which energy and technology are parts.

With over fifty chapters written by contributors from approximately
twenty countries, /Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution/ forms a
collective map of the most dynamic struggles within the energy sector.
Visit:
www.akpress.org/2009/items/sparkingaworldwideenergyrevolution 
<http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/sparkingaworldwideenergyrevolution>
<http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/sparkingaworldwideenergyrevolution 
<http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/sparkingaworldwideenergyrevolution>>

This event is sponsored by OPIRG York (www.opirgyork.ca 
<http://www.opirgyork.ca>
<http://www.opirgyork.ca>) OPIRG Toronto (www.opirgtoronto.org 
<http://www.opirgtoronto.org>
<http://www.opirgtoronto.org/>
) and Upping the Anti: A journal of theory
and action
(www.uppingtheanti.org <http://www.uppingtheanti.org> 
<http://www.uppingtheanti.org/>).

For more information please email uppingtheanti at gmail.com 
<mailto:uppingtheanti at gmail.com>