A-Infos (en) Earth For Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash

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Tools For Change Activist Workshop & Lecture Series

Presents Author & Activist Brian Tokar

EARTH FOR SALE:
Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash

Since the early 1990s, activists, corporations, and government officials
have battled for the heart and soul of the environmental movement. In in
this lecture, Brian Tokar examines the economic issues, political divisions,
and world views that have shaped this conflict, and their implications for a
renewed ecological movement for the 21st century.

Tokar demonstrates how national environmental groups::from the Sierra Club
to the National Wildlife Federation::have time and time again compromised
environmental integrity to become inside players in the corrupt backrooms of
Canadian and American politics. Meanwhile, recent administrations have
called themselves defenders of the environment even as they quietly
undermined the safeguards Americans often take for granted.

But even in this world of environmental doublespeak, where corporations and
the Federal government coopt and sell out the public's support for
environmental protection, Tokar finds reason for hope. Tokar documents the
emergence of democratic challenges to corporate dominance of environmental
decision:making.

This talk reaches beyond the temporary remedies of survival:under:crisis to
showcase a new ecological vision of community and cooperation. This
important and revealing book is required reading for those interested in
ending environmental devastation and corporate cooptation, and in creating a
greener future.

Tuesday, May 26th at 7pm
1455 de Maisonneuve West
Cost: 10$ sliding scale
A fundraiser for QPIRG Concordia

for more info:

QPIRG (514) 848-7585
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~qpirg/tools/work-eng.html


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