Friday, September 30 – Monday, October 3, 2011

Only the Friday night free public meeting is at the Sydney Myer Asia Centre, Melb Uni

The rest of the conference, Saturday through Monday, will be at Victorian Trades Hall

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Featuring:

JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, renowned US economist and ecologist, Monthly Review editor and author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (with Fred Magdoff); The Ecological Rift, The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis; Marx’s Ecology; Ecology Against Capitalism; and The Vulnerable Planet.

IAN ANGUS, a founder of the Ecosocialist International Network and editor of climateandcapitalism.com. Author of Confronting the Climate Change Crisis: An Eco-socialist Perspective; Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative; and The Global Fight for Climate Justice.

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Three days of feature talks, panel discussions and more than 20 workshops to discuss solutions for a world in crisis

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

Agribusiness and sustainable alternatives

The movement against coal seam gas mining

…and much more



Right click here to download the full conference agenda in PDF format

Organised by Green Left Weekly, Resistance and the Socialist Alliance

Sponsored by the Office for Environmental Programs, Melbourne University

Co-sponsors: Monthly Review, Friends of the Earth (Melbourne), climateandcapitalism.com, Links International Journal for Socialist Renewal, Labour Party Pakistan (LPP), Sydney University Political Economy Society, Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM), Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM – Philippines), Australia-Asia Worker Links, Left Unity Adelaide, Adelaide Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN), Community Radio 3CR, Transform Asia, Action Aid International and Melbourne University Student Union.

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Free Public meeting “ Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe”

with John Bellamy Foster – 7pm, Friday September 30

Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne Uni:

Free – please register to guarantee your place

Whole conference (including Friday public meeting):

solidarity $100 / waged $60 / concession $20

Per day (Sat, Sun, Mon):

solidarity $55 / waged $35 / concession $15



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PHONE: (03) 9639 8622 or Viv Miley +61 408 398 724 or Peter Boyle +61 401 760 577

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