If you are in Australia, this is a meeting you simply must not miss. If you are elsewhere, and can find a way to get to Australia, it will be worth every effort you make …
WORLD AT A CROSSROADS CONFERENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE : SOCIAL CHANGE
Melbourne Australia
September 30 – October 3, 2011
Organized by Resistance, Socialist Alliance, and Green Left Weekly
Three days of feature talks, panel discussions and workshops, including …
- Capitalism, socialism and ecology
- People’s power and democracy
- The climate debt and the Global South
- Refugees, racism and internationalism
- Food security and survival
- Building movements that can stop climate change
- The global nuclear threat
- Indigenous resistance, land and sovereignty
- Feminism and climate change
- Imperialism, war and oil
- The market vs social ownership
- The dirty record of carbon trading
- Population and the planet
- Agri-business and sustainable alternatives
- The movement against coal seam gas mining
- …and much more
Featured speakers:
- JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, renowned US economist and ecologist, editor of Monthly Review, editor and author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with Fred Magdoff); The Ecological Rift, The Ecological Revolution, and Marx’s Ecology.
- IAN ANGUS, editor of climateandcapitalism.com and The Global Fight for Climate Justice. Author of Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (with Simon Butler), and Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative;
Plus …
- S. Arultchelvan, Joethi Sahadevan & Angeline Loh (Malaysia)
- Farooq Tariq and Sonia Qadir (Pakistan)
- Ly Pisey, Chrek Sophea & Sao Sopheap (Cambodia)
- Sue Bradford (Aotearoa/NZ)
- Derek Wall (Green Party of England&Wales)
- Drew Hutton (Lock The Gate Alliance)
- Alex Bhathal (Greens Victoria)
- Dr Andrea Bunting
- Aran Vaganam
- Ben Courtice
- Bob McMahon (Tasmanians Against Pulp Mill)
- Brianna Pike
- CamWalker & Jim Green (Friends of the Earth)
- Dave Holmes
- Gemma Weedall
- Graham Matthews
- Dr Greg Adamson
- Dr Hans Baer
- Jay Fletcher
- JessMoore
- Dotty Bamblett
- Dr Kamala Emanuel
- Dr Ken Coghill
- Dianne Stokes and Kylie Sambo (Muckaty traditional owners)
- Nat Wasley
- Nic Maclellan
- Peter Karamoskos
- Pip Hinman
- Reham Maklad
- Samah Sabawi
- Sam Wainwright
- Sam Watson
- Simon Butler
- Simon Cunich
- Sue Bolton
- Susan Price
- Timothy Lawson
- Tony Iltis
- Trent Hawkins
- Zane Alcorn
- Dave Kerin
- Australia-Asia Worker Links
- Sally Goldner
- Jeff Sparrow, editor Overland magazine
- Nala Mansell-McKenna, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
- Rachel Evans
- Rodney Augustine, Save Kimberley From Gas Mining Campaign
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
Co-sponsored by 3CR Community Radio; Action Aid International; Australia-Asia Worker Links; C.L.E.A.N. South Australia; Climate and Capitalism; Friends of the Earth Melbourne; Labour Party Pakistan; Left Unity (Adelaide); Links, International journal of socialist renewal; Monthly Review; Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM –Philippines); Socialist Party of Malaysia; Sydney University Political Economy Society; Transform Asia