On Monday, JANUARY 11th at 7PM, This Is Forever has the pleasure of hosting Tina Gerhardt, activist, academic and free-lance journalist, as she reports to us about the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (COP15) that took place from December 7th to December 18th, 2009.
Tina arrived in Copenhagen before the summit started and left after it ended. She wrote daily about events inside the Bella Center and demos and actions outside on the streets.
She will bring us her reflections from COP15 as well as the climate justice movement. Tonight’s event will lay out in simple and understandable terms what the Copenhagen Accord includes, what it means, and how it contrasts with the science demands and what other groups of nations, such as the G77, AOSIS and the EU, as well as science calls for. Additionally, we have an opportunity to discuss actions related to the summit, exploring new directions, potentials, limits and the implications of state repression.
On the next evening, Tuesday, JANUARY 12th at 7PM, join Ben Trott, member of the Turbulence Collective, for a presentation and discussion of Issue 5 of their journal, entitled “And Now For Something Completely Different?”
Turbulence: Ideas for Movement is a journal that explores many of the political and strategic directions of the ‘movement of movements’ of the counter-globalization days and into the development of global movements today. The journal is a key space for debate and investigation into core logics, practices, and visions of an international network of movements.
The current issue discusses the condition of anti-capitalist movements in the wake of various crises: of financial capital, of the doctrines of neoliberalism, of our planetary commons and the environment, of social and political forms of equitable life, and of our movements themselves.
Ben will be presenting the arguments of the collective’s article “Life in Limbo?” that introduces the new issue as well as the political project of the journal itself.
Both events will take place at 7PM at Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street, NYC 10002. Print copies of the journal will be available to all attendees. You can find more information about Turbulence here as well as download the entire issue here.
