[van-announce] Friday: Joel Kovel and Hugo Blanco on Eco-Socialism

[Derrick O'Keefe]

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Reminder and update: This Friday's Ecosocialism forum now featuring Joel Kovel and Hugo Blanco

Ecological Crisis and Social Transformation: 
Eco-Socialism for the 21st Century 

Featuring: Dr. Joel Kovel and Hugo Blanco

Friday, September 21 
7pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings 
Room 1900 
Admission: Suggested donation $5-10 

Joel Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. In the former capacity he has published nine books and over a hundred articles and reviews, including The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World (Zed, 2002). Since 2003 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism. 

As an activist, Joel Kovel has been engaged in struggles for peace and justice since the Vietnam War era. He has worked within the antiwar and antinuclear movements, the solidarity movements in Central America and the Caribbean, the movements for democratic media, and, increasingly, for ecological transformation. Kovel joined the Green Party since 1990. In 1998, he was the Green Party candidate for US Senator from New York, and in 2000 sought their Presidential nomination. 

Hugo Blanco is a long-time organizer and peasant leader who remains today an outstanding voice of the campesino and indigenous movements in Peru, and is a leader of the Federation of Campesinos of Cuzco. He is a member of the editorial board of Sin Permiso. Blanco’s most recent writings have stressed the strategic importance of the rise of indigenous consciousness and militancy to the mounting anti-imperialist struggles in the hemisphere.

"Most current struggles of indigenous campesinos are against the killing of Pachamama, Mother Earth; against depredations by the large companies, mainly mining, but also petroleum and gas. Previous Peruvian governments were servants of feudal lords; today they serve the great multinationals. They act against the Peruvian people and against nature." --Hugo Blanco, August 16 2007, Nuestra Cultura, original link: http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=54336. 

Sponsored by: Seven Oaks Magazine (www.SevenOaksMag.com) 
Endorsed by: People's Coop Bookstore, International Socialists, Vancouver Socialist Forum, New Socialist Group. 

For more information, email info at sevenoaksmag.com. 


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