Winona will skype into this event at 4pm central time and 3pm pst. Were happy to support this book...very important. Turn out if youre in the Bay! Join us for the Oakland book launch for A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice! The launch will include a panel of local frontline activists fighting Tar Sands in the Bay Area, as well as national perspectives, and will include: Winona La Duke (via Skype) - Honor the Earth, Book Contributor Vivian Huang - Asian Pacific Environmental Network Pennie Opal Plant - Idle No More Joshua Kahn Russell - Book co-Editor, Panel Facilitator Clayton Thomas-Muller (via video) - Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, Book Contributor Event Co-sponsors: Idle No More SF Bay, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Movement Generation, Center for Story Based Strategy, Ruckus Society, 350 Bay Area The struggle against the Tar Sands is one of the most epic of our times, and has been called the largest industrial project on earth; a strip mine spanning the size of Florida. This struggle has been captured in the new PM Press volume, A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice. The collection is one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern of frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet and climate change. More about A Line in the Tar Sands and the Contributors: Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists, government environmental scientists are muzzled, and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Yet, despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to Indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. Including leading voices involved in the struggle against the tar sands, A Line in the Tar Sands offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective resistance.
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