[Van-Parecon] Today, Robin Hahnel at World Peace Forum on "War, Peace & ParEcon"

[vancouverparecon at resist.ca]

Hello,

Today the Vancouver ParEcon Collective is hosting Robin Hahnel at the World
Peace Forum to speak on "War, Peace & ParEcon". This event will begin
1:00pm at UBC-SUB 215 (please note room change).

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).


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