Dear Friend,
This promises to be an /extraordinary/ weekend October 25th and 26th with 45 scholars, authors and activists including *Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Helen Caldicott, Jerry Mander*, and many others sounding the alarm about *Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth* http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAA1FAFULTAxWAAMA . See details below. *We, The World* http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0CTQwPCx8NAw9SDw has frequently collaborated with the organizers *International Forum on Globalization http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwRFAFULTAxWAAMA , the New York Open Center http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwVFAFULTAxWAAMA , the Species Alliance http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwZFAFULTAxWAAMA * and many of the featured speakers. So we are particularly excited to Co-Sponsor this major event!
We recommend forwarding this to your friends and colleagues who live in the New York region. And if you are in NYC yourself, we hope to see you there! Details below.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at *http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0CTQwPCx8NAw9SDw *
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*The International Forum on Globalization and the Techno-Utopia Project
in collaboration with*
*The International Center for Technology Assessment, The New York*
*Open Center and The Schumacher Center for New Economics *
*presents*
http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwdFAFULTAxWAAMA
Saturday Oct. 25
10am to 10pm
Sunday Oct. 26
10am to 7pm
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwBFAFULTAxWAAMA
7 E. 7th Street http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwFFAFULTAxWAAMA
New York, NY 10003 http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwJFAFULTAxWAAMA
Mountaintop Removal
Cyber Human
TEACH-IN:
Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwdFAFULTAxWAAMA
45 Leading scholars, authors and activists will convene at The Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, for a public "teach-in" on the profound impacts-- environmental, economic and social-- of runaway technological expansionism, and cyber immersion; the tendency to see technology as the savior for all problems. A change of direction is required, returning the fate of nature to the center of economic and social decision makiing.
Buy your tickets here! http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAA1FAFULTAxWAAMA
$45 for Saturday
$40 for Sunday
$75 for both
$25 for students/seniors
Contacts:
Brown Paper Tickets http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAA1FAFULTAxWAAMA | 800.838.3006
International Forum on Globalization http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwdFAFULTAxWAAMA | 415.561.7650
New York Open Center http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwNFAFULTAxWAAMA | 212.219.2527 x2
SPEAKERS
*Speakers include: Jeannette Armstrong, Debbie Barker, Shannon Biggs, Chet Bowers, Tom Butler, Helen Caldicott, Eileen Crist, Marcy Darnovsky, David Ehrenfeld, Aiden Enns, Joshua Farley, Bruce Gagnon, John M. Greer, Susan Griffin, Patricia Gualinga, Clive Hamilton, Randy Hayes, Richard Heinberg, Craig Holdrege, Michael Huesemann, Wes Jackson, Andrew Kimbrell, Dave King, Lisi Krall, Winona La Duke, Neisen Laukon, Jerry Mander, Bill McKibben, Stephanie Mills, Anuradha Mittal, Pat Mooney, Ralph Nader, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Koohan Paik, Douglas Rushkoff, Linda Sheehan, Vandana Shiva, Katie Singer, Gar Smith, Atossa Soltani, Charlene Spretnak, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Jim Thomas, Bruce Thompson, Mary Reynolds Thompson, Doug Tompkins, Severine von Tscharner-Fleming, Ralph White, Langdon Winner et. al. For brief bios of speakers, click here http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAwxFAFULTAxWAAMA . Full Bios/Program/Speaker schedule TBA soon. Plus films, workshops and bookstore.*
Buy your tickets today http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0HAA1FAFULTAxWAAMA !
We thank our co-sponsors, ABC Carpet & Home, Agrarian Trust, Amazon Watch, The Foundation for
Deep Ecology, Foundation Earth, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, The Greenhorns, Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture, Navdanya, The Oakland Institute, The Pachamama Alliance, Post Carbon Institute, Species Alliance, the
United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) and *We, The World* http://outreach.wetheworld.net/lists7/lt.php?id=MR0CTQwPCx8NAw9SDw
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