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*Profits or the Planet: Capitalism and Ecological Crisis*<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120503507975624> *Save the date, RSVP Here*!<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120503507975624> * http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120503507975624&ref=ts Saturday May 22, 7PM at Casa **Aztlán** - 1831 South Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL* A discussion with Chris Williams followed by a fundraising party for Socialism 2010 <http://www.socialismconference.org/>. Author of Haymarket's <http://www.haymarketbooks.org/> upcoming 'Ecology and Socialism <http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Ecology-and-Socialism>,' Chris Williams is a long-time environmental activist and Vice President of the Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace University, where he teaches courses in energy and the environment, physics, and chemistry. He is also the chair of the science department at Packer Collegiate Institute. http://www.isreview.org/issues/62/feat-hothouseearth.shtml http://www.isreview.org/issues/64/feat-hothouse2.shtml http://www.isreview.org/issues/68/feat-overpopulation.shtml http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Ecology-and-Socialism [image: EcologySocialism_toHaymarket_sm.jpg] [image: logo.jpg] It is an appropriate time to be talking about environmental activism: In the past month, a coal mine and oil rig disaster have exposed both the human and environmental toll of capitalism's relentless drive for profits. The gulf disaster - which has BP and Haliburton's bloody, oily fingerprints all over it - is quickly being acknowledged as one of the worst in US history. Oil continues to flow and begins to blanket the US shoreline as officials admit that it will take months just to stop the leak. Could this be the Proposition 8 or Arizona moment for the environmental movement? After the debacle at the Copenhagen climate conference in December, it has become increasingly clear that governing elites are incapable of offering real solutions to climate change, species extinction, deforestation and a host of other pressing environmental issues unless confronted with a massive movement for socio-ecological justice. This book focuses on how we can build such a movement and avoid crossing planetary thresholds through a study of real solutions possible right now and what it would take to get them. While we work on building broad movements to attain short-term goals to slow ecological devastation, we need a long-term vision for a different world. A world based on equality, democracy and ecological sustainability where things are produced not because a tiny minority makes money, but because all humans need them. This book seeks to explore what Marx, Engels and subsequent socialists had to say about sustainability to offer us some clues as to what such a world might look like. [image: socialism2010_logo.gif] <http://socialismconference.org/> *Socialism 2010: Ideas for Changing the World - June 17-20*<http://socialismconference.org/> Chris will be joined by fellow environmental activists Heather Rogers and Ian Angus, as well as other activists from around the world in more than 100 workshops to discuss how we can build the kinds of movements that can change society and create the kind of equal, just, and sustainable world that we all want and need. Funds raised at the afterparty will go towards scholarships for those who cannot afford conference registration. For more information please see ChicagoSocialists.org ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
