Undercover police and climate activism

June 15, 2011 19:00

Published: June 10, 2011 15:26 by Housmans Bookshop |

Published by group: Housmans Bookshop
Tagged as: environmentalism

Places: kings_cross

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'Climate Change: The Science, the Solutions and the Way Forward'
with Danny Chivers

Wednesday 15th June, 7pm

It's been a busy year for author/activist/slam poet Danny Chivers. He was one of six people charged with planning to invade Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station, but his case collapsed at the last minute due to revelations about undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. Since then, he's been arrested at the Fortnum & Mason anti-cuts demo, been thrown out of BP's AGM for an anti-tar sands protest, and has also launched his new book: "The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change". Published by New Internationalist, it's a handy pocket guide to the whole climate issue, using friendly, jargon-free language (along with a smattering of humour, poetry and unusual analogies) to explain the latest science, politics, solutions, technologies, barriers, activism, and where we go from here.

Danny will be launching his book at Housmans, at 7pm on Wednesday 15th June. Come and hear the inside story of the whole bizarre Ratcliffe affair, mixed up with slam poetry, some unlikely good news on climate change, and discussion about what our next steps should be in the struggle for climate justice.

You can read the first chapter of the book for free online, here:
http://www.newint.org/books/no-nonsense-guides/climate-change-2011/

You can see Danny's recent appearance on BBC Newsnight, here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011×3pc

You can see Danny performing some of his poetry here:

"Shop a Scrounger", anti-cuts and corporate tax-dodging poem produced by
Pete Speller and Zoe Broughton:
http://vimeo.com/17295443

"Lifestyle Choice" live at the G20 protests in London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQcGPcXpCYY&feature=related

"A Modest Proposal" by Tenner Films, on location at Dungeness nuclear
power station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqob1yIFwI&feature=related

FOR MORE INFO ON THE EVENT AT HOUSMASN PLEASE VISIT
http://www.housmans.com/events.php

 

Contact email: nik@housmans.com

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