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SUMMARY:On the Political and Social Thought of Murray Bookchin and his Rel
 evance in Rojava and Beyond - Janet Biehl
DTSTART:20151022T160000Z
DTEND:20151022T180000Z
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CONTACT:Odette Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Today many people readily acknowledge that the force driving c
 limate change and threatening complex life-forms on planet earth is capita
 lism. But back the 1950s\, when Murray Bookchin not only raised the alarm 
 about environmental ills but diagnosed their root cause in the market-driv
 en economic system\, his was a lonely voice. And as early as 1964\, he war
 ned that in order to avoid what was then called “the greenhouse effect\,
 ” our society would have to step down from fossil fuels in favor of rene
 wable energy. His solution: a radical political\, technological\, and ecol
 ogical decentralization. Janet Biehl\, author of Ecology or Catastrophe: T
 he Life of Murray Bookchin\, will describe the work of this insufficiently
  known thinker and his growing relevance today to movements calling for ra
 dical citizens’ assemblies. \n\nCo-organized by the Global Capitalism an
 d its Critics Discussion Group and the Critical Theory / Practice Seminar 
 Series\n\n
LOCATION:Sociology Department Committee Room\, Free School Lane
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