[Van-Parecon] Robin Hahnel comes to Vancouver World Peace Forum

[vancouverparecon at resist.ca]

Greetings all,

The Vancouver Parecon Collective is proud to announce that we're hosting
Robin Hahnel at this June's World Peace Forum here in Vancouver at UBC.
Robin will be speaking on the WPF theme of "Economy of Peace". We provide
an
event description below. But first we'd like to mention a few of the
latest features added to our website...


Collective member Haroon Bajwa reviews Michael Albert's latest book
"Realizing Hope": http://vanparecon.resist.ca/bajwarealizinghope.html

VanParecon Collective presented at the Canada22: Envisioning Post
Neo-liberalism conference last April 22. Material presented there is
provided in both print and audio format.
Print: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=26&ItemID=10151
Audio: http://vanparecon.resist.ca/parecon_files/postneolibpareconchris.mp3

We've also recently conducted an extensive interview with Michael Albert
on "Parecon Today":
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=26&ItemID=10164

One final reminder to please checkout our bulletin board were we discuss
vision and strategy for all matters economic, political, cultural,
kinship, social and ecological:
http://sandbox.oracleatbelfry.com/forums/vanparForum/

Now, Robin Hahnel comes to the Vancouver World Peace Forum on June 27:

There are some wars that spring up for reasons that have little to do with
the world's sole remaining super power. But most wars since the collapse
of Communism have been centered around US imperial ambitions, and even the
wars that start for other reasons often become entangled in US imperial
machinations. The first duty of all who oppose war and imperial domination
is to build a world-wide movement for peace that is so powerful that even
the world's only military super power finds it too costly to wage war. But
as long as economies are governed by competition and greed, even a peace
movement more powerful than the one we have been able to build so far will
find itself challenged over and over again to douse the flames of war.
Besides preventing wars, stopping the wars that do break out as quickly as
possible, and checkmating imperial plans, to be successful in the long-run
the peace movement must address the underlying forces that cause war. One
underlying cause of war is the economics of competition and greed.
(Sexism, racism, and militarism are others.) This means replacing the
economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable
cooperation is an integral part of a successful strategy for achieving
world peace. Robin Hahnel came of age politically in the anti-Vietnam war
movement, and has participated actively in the US anti-imperialist
movement ever since. He is also co-creator, along with Michael Albert, of
an alternative to capitalism known as participatory economics. Together
with the Vancouver Participatory Economics Collective, Hahnel will talk
about war, peace, and participatory economics. Go here to register:
http://zeus.maxintegration.net/events/fasttrack.aspx

Robin Hahnel has taught political economy at American University for 30
years. He has co-authored, along with Michael Albert, numerous books on
participatory economics. Robin has been active in many social movements
and organizations beginning with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
and the anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s, and most recently with the
Southern Maryland Greens and Green Party USA. His most recent book is
Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation published
by Routledge (2005).

Thanks!
Vancouver Parecon Collective
http://vanparecon.resist.ca/