From vancouverparecon at resist.ca  Fri Jun 23 18:45:38 2006
From: vancouverparecon at resist.ca (vancouverparecon at resist.ca)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:45:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Van-Parecon] Next Tuesday, "War, Peace & Parecon",
 Robin Hahnel at World Peace Forum
Message-ID: <61558.216.232.209.56.1151113538.squirrel@mail.resist.ca>

Greetings,

We'd like to bring your attention to an event we're hosting next Tuesday
as part of Vancouver's World Peace Forum, where political economist,
author and long time activist Robin Hahnel will speak on "War, Peace &
ParEcon". See event details and description below. But before getting to
that event, first we'd like to thank everyone who came out to the
Commercial Drive Festival last week for a fun and stimulating event. We
had a great time and have posted some photos which convey that spirit on
our web site. You can view them here:
http://vanparecon.resist.ca/photoscommercialdrivefest.html

"War, Peace & ParEcon"

Event Details and Registration: This event will be held on June 27,
1:00-2:30pm at UBC-SUB 212. Click on this link to register:
http://zeus.maxintegration.net/events/fasttrack.aspx

Event Description: 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.

Van ParEcon Collective member Marla Renn recently interviewed Robin on "A
Participatory Peace: A Look Inside the Anti-War Movement". Click on this
link to read the interview:
http://vanparecon.resist.ca/marla_hahnel_interview_wpf.html

Robin Hahnel has taught political economy at American University for over
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).

For more information visit our website at http://vanparecon.resist.ca
Or send us an email at vancouverparecon at resist.ca