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CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Friday April 10 - Sunday April 12, 2009 (Easter weekend)

Sydney



The many environmental crises threatening to destroy humanity and the
planet will be a major theme of discussion at the

World At A Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century
conference in Sydney on April 10-12.



The conference will feature speakers from North America, Latin America,
the Asia-Pacific and South Africa, including

IAN ANGUS, founder of the Ecosocialist International Network, editor of
Climate and Capitalism, and author of Food Crisis: World Hunger,
Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative, How to Avoid Action
on Climate Change: The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics, and
Confronting the Climate Change Crisis.

Conference panels and workshops on environmental issues include:

"Capitalism's crises and our solutions" featuring DAVID SPRATT,
co-author of Climate Code Red, with
Reihana Mohideen from the Philippines and Michael Lebowitz from
Venezuela (Fri April 10, 9.30am).

"Challenges of building a climate change movement" featuring SIMON
BUTLER, Green Left Weekly environment issues journalist and People for a
Safe Climate activist, and DAVID SPRATT, co-author of Climate Code Red
(Fri April 10, 11am).

"Public ownership and workers' control" featuring DAVE KERIN, initiator
of worker-run cooperatives in Victoria to build solar panels; and
MICHAEL LEBOWITZ on the experiences of self-management in Yugoslavia and
Venezuela (Fri April 10, 3.30pm).

"Confronting the climate change crisis: An ecosocialist perspective"
featuring IAN ANGUS, founder of the Ecosocialist International Network &
editor of Climate and Capitalism and DICK NICHOLS, author of
Environment, Capitalism and Socialism and Socialist Alliance national
co-convenor. Introduced by STUART ROSEWARNE, co-editor of Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism (Fri April 10, 5.30pm).

"Climate refugees and the `overpopulation' debate" featuring KAMALA
EMANUEL, Democratic Socialist Perspective (Sat April 11, 11am)

"Production and consumption as a source of global warming" featuring
HANS BAER, Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, and
author of Global Warming and the Political Economy of Health (Sat April
11, 11am).

"Building a worker-green-community alliance for sustainability"
featuring TIM GOODEN, Secretary of Geelong and Regions Trades and Labour
Council; DAVE KERIN and MEL BARNES, Resistance activist in Tasmania's
Stop the Pull Mill campaign (Sat April 11, 2pm)

"Capitalism, agribusiness and sustainable agriculture" featuring TRISH
CORCORAN, KATE STOCKDALE and NICK SUDAKOFF (Sun April 12, 11am)

"Sustainable cities: The transition to public transport, accessible
housing and liveability" featuring BEN COURTICE, DSP environment
movement activist; and JOHN RICE, Adelaide Ecosocialist Network (Sun
April 12, 3.30pm)



For the full conference agenda and to register, visit
www.WorldAtACrossroads.org <http://www.worldatacrossroads.org/> or phone
(02) 9690 1977


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