 Scholar and activist JOEL KOVEL is coming to Regina. Joel Kovel will be making two
presentations, one on Wednesday, March 24th, and again on Friday, March 26 (click 'read more' below for details).
Joel Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. He was trained as a physician and psychiatrist, but left these fields in order to be more politically active. He has written ten books, the two latest of
which – The Enemy of Nature and Overcoming Zionism – are about the issues that
concern him the most: contending with the ecological crisis, and seeking
justice in Palestine. He has run for the US Senate on the Green Party line and sought the party’s presidential nomination. Currently he edits the ecosocialist journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and does what he can to bring about a post-capitalist and post-Zionist world.
As an activist, Joel Kovel has been involved in the antiwar and
antinuclear movements, solidarity movements in Central America and the
Caribbean, the movements for democratic media, and, increasingly, for
ecological transformation. As well, 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.
A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7
pm
Regina Unitarian Centre
(Located at the Corner of
Angus Street and College Avenue)
Presented by the Anti-Capitalist Reading
Group & Briarpatch Magazine
Recent events confirm that a kind of
sea-change has occurred in the fortunes of the Israeli State, with rapidly
declining legitimacy accompanied by the growth of Boycott-Divestment-Sanction
movements to the point of sounding a major alarm in Zionist circles. This talk
will review the evidence for this and more fundamentally, assess its limits and
possibilities. These depend in part upon the basic strategic understanding and
long-range goals adopted by people in the Palestine solidarity movements.
THE TURNING POINT: ECOSOCIALISM OR BARBARISM
Friday, March 26, 2010 3:00
p.m.
Classroom Building – Room
127
University of Regina
Presented by the Department of Political
Science
We are in the midst of a crisis unprecedented
in the history of civilization, marked by an intractable contradiction between
the present capitalist mode of production and the integrity of nature. I will
discuss the character of the crisis and lay out some of the principles
necessary for its resolution. These require a fundamentally different way of
producing our lives, one in harmony with nature as against the present ecocidal
tendencies of capital. The future depends upon the outcome.
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