Political Ecology - System Change not Climate Change Book Launch
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Maritime Labour Centre
1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver
Canada's Veteran Publisher of Dissident Literature Celebrates its 50th year:
Join urban-ecology activist and Black Rose Books co-founder, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, as he launches his latest book "Political Ecology: System Change Not Climate Change." A message from Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart will open the launch on the topic of BRB’s 50 years in publishing.
Following a review of "Political Ecology: System Change Not Climate Change," will be a panel discussion including professor emeritus Peter Prontzos, and authors Larry Gambone, James Baugh, Sierra Club BC co-chair Christine Leclerc, David Spader, and Dimitrios Roussopoulos.
The panel discussion will consider the necessary paths that humanity must take, politically and ecologically, to effectively engage in ”System Change Not Climate Change.”
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Canada's Veteran Publisher of Dissident Literature Celebrates 50 years
Urban-ecology activist and Black Rose Books co-founder, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, will be launching his latest book Political Ecology: System Change Not Climate Change at Vancouver’s Maritime Labour Center on June 5th, 2019. A message from Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, on the topic of BRB’s 50 years in publishing, will open the launch around 6:30pm. Speakers scheduled for this event include professors and seasoned activists who will discuss the necessary paths that humanity must take, politically and ecologically, to effectively engage in ”System Change Not Climate Change.”
This fall, the non-profit will have published its 503rd book. It all started back in 1969 with Black Rose Books’ first release, The New Left in Canada, which sold 7000 copies. In its second year, the publisher released a Black-Canadian manifesto written by protesters from Montreal’s Sir George Williams University affair. The authors, which included for example Roosevelt Williams who would later become the Prime Minister of Dominica, and human rights lawyer and academic Dennis Forsythe, titled the book with the racist chant that was yelled at them by onlookers as flames engulfed what is now the Concordia University Hall Building: Let the N*****s Burn!: The Sir George Williams Affair and its Caribbean Aftermath.
A few years later, Noam Chomsky was finding himself too controversial for his US publishers, and, through a mutual connection, found a home at the Montreal publisher who went on to publish many of Chomsky’s works, including “The Culture of Terrorism,” “Language and Politics,” and the book accompaniment to the documentary, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media – the most successful documentary in the history of the National Film Board of Canada, and which was shown on major television stations throughout the world.
The founder of Black Rose Books – long time peace, housing, citizens’ rights, and ecological activist Dimitri Roussopoulos – states that:
“The idea of a non-authoritarian, non-exploitative society touches every facet of modern life, from economics to ecology, international politics, media, social ethics, urban planning, municipal politics, education, religion, and more. For this reason, Black Rose Books publishes books on a large range of subjects with the hope of bringing about the vision of Murray Bookchin, the genius author who also suggested to us the name Black Rose Books back in 1969. Bookchin’s philosophy of “social-ecology” states that our ecological crisis is in fact a social crisis, and that we will never fix this crisis of dominating and exploiting nature until we realize that we must stop dominating and exploiting each other. Our immediate goal must be to create ecological and democratic cities, this is a realistic roadmap to major renovation.”
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For more information and high res images, please contact:
Dan Reid: dan@blackrosebooks.com
