Video from the City from Below Conference of Professor Harvey’s remarks at the opening plenary. Baltimore, April 18, 2009. Read the transcript. Watch the rest of the plenary.
DAVID HARVEY
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography;
Author of The Limits to Capital (Verso, 2007)
in conversation with
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Editor of CounterPunch and columnist for The Nation
Moderated by
LAURA FLANDERS, GRITtv
A Jobless Recovery is NO RECOVERY! The banks are booming on public cash, and Wall Street bonuses are soaring while workers’ wages flat line. Is this the future of capitalism? Are we living it right now? Or is there another way? Another future? Join us on September 22 at CUNY’s Proshansky Auditorium for a conversation about the crisis now with Counterpunch co-editor and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn and CUNY professor and author David Harvey. Moderated by bestselling author and host of GRITtv Laura Flanders.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 7.30 pm
Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Grad Center
365 Fifth Ave., at 34th St.
New York, NY 10001
Book-signing reception to follow.
Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited authors in the humanities.[1] In addition, he is the world’s most cited academic geographer (according to Andrew Bodman, see Transactions of the IBG, 1991, 1992), and the author of many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. His work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate, most recently he has been credited with helping to bring back social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism, particularly in its neoliberal form.
Bristol’s own permaculture guru Mike Feingold leads a tour around his no-dig permaculture allotment
Mike Feingold takes you around ‘planet zog’, his allotment. Mike is one of the tutors on the Permaculture Design Course that I’ve recently completed in Bristol. I’m now distressing my very own boiler suit, so I can be just like Mike.
(South Bronx, N.Y. – August 28, 2009) – For the second consecutive year, ReBuilders Source and Green Worker Cooperatives have teamed up to bring the Timpson Place Block & Barbecue Party on Saturday, September 12. This year’s theme: ReBuilders Source is the Construction Industry’s Resource.
Meet Our 2009 Graduates GWC is proud to announce the Spring 2009 Graduating class of Co-op Academy.
They are transitioning to become members of ReBuilder’s Source, Aquatechture (Solar Manufacturer) and La Obrera(Green Diner)
Janco Damas
Joel Frank
Don Butterfied
Advocating Zero Waste
GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to incubating worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives in the South Bronx. Our approach is a response to high unemployment and decades of environmental racism. We don’t have the luxury to wait for new alternatives. That’s why we’re creating them. We believe that in order to address our environmental and economic problems we need new ways to earn a living that don’t require polluting the earth or exploiting human labor.
Building an alternative green economy in the South Bronx is not a solo endeavor. Help support our work today by making a donation. All donations are tax-deductible and should be made out to Green Worker, Inc.
Green Worker Cooperatives Co-op Academy Graduates Create Green Businesses
Green Worker Cooperatives is proud to announce our Co-op Academy graduates, Eddie Charles, Don Butterfield, Chris Michaels, William Cerf, Joel Frank, Janco Damas, Jerry Kahn, and Jerome Villanueva.
Green Worker Cooperatives is a local, green, and democratic worker co-op business incubator. Its goal is to create jobs and keep Bronx communities clean for the people who live in them. The Green Worker Co- op Academy is a program that ran for 16 weeks. This intensive business program has taught participants how to develop South Bronx based environmentally-friendly businesses. Students learned about issues dealing with the most beneficial ways to run a worker co-op. In addition, the participants were taught how to prepare a real world business plan. Graduate Jerome Villanueva said, “As a worker-owner you are hands on, you help out and you get dirty, here the community will actually see the owner.”
Registration for the Fall 2009 Coop Academy class can be done if you attend an Open House at 461 Timpson Place in Bronx NY on August 22nd.
The graduates of the most recent Co-op Academy class have already started expanding their ideas into reality. Aquatecture and La Obrera are two worker co-ops currently in the incubation stage. Chris Michaels and William Cerf have begun steps to launch their 24/7 green diner in the South Bronx. Don Butterfield and Eddie Charles are the founders of Aquatecture, a worker-coop to introduce solar energy and renewable energy in the Bronx. Jerome Villanueva, Janco Damas, and Joel Frank are the new transitioning worker owners at ReBuilders Source.
Rebuilders Source is a re-use store that takes in donated used or new building materials and sells those materials for far below retail price. Rebuilders Source latest transitioning member, Janco Damas states, “We need to encourage responsible disposal of all these materials.” This is the first worker-owned building material center in the world. It is a viable alternative for contractors and homeowners from putting perfectly good building materials into the landfill.
Registration for the Fall 2009 Coop Academy class can be done if you attend an Open House at 461 Timpson Place in Bronx NY on August 22nd. Visit www.greeenworker.coop to register to attend the Open House or to view videos of our graduates.
GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to incubating worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives in the South Bronx. Our approach is a response to high unemployment and decades of environmental racism. We don’t have the luxury to wait for new alternatives. That’s why we’re creating them. We believe that in order to address our environmental and economic problems we need new ways to earn a living that does not require polluting the earth or exploiting human labor.
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Green Worker Cooperatives
461 Timpson Place
Bronx, New York 10455
People are always saying the tragedy of climate change is that those who contribute the least to the problem — the poor — are punished the hardest. There is truth to this; third-world, small-scale farmers whose fields experience climate changes too strong to adapt to don’t have industrial agriculture’s luxury of abundant surplus to cover their margin of error, or mass pesticide correction (fossil fuel use) to control the infestation of new pests that thrive in the new weather, or abundant water supplies that can be taken from the nearest neighborhood in short periods of dryness.
But with just one of these advantages taken away — through peak oil, erosion, severe drought or the like — the playing field will be evened. Those who educate themselves to adapt to a lifestyle of lower-energy inputs for higher gains are those who will thrive. Backyard farmers will benefit, while Food For Less and Wal-Mart devotees may be scratching their heads and rubbing their bellies.
Last week, I drove into West Oakland, California to meet with Patrick O’Connor of City Slicker Farms, an organization that works mainly with low-income families to increase “food self-sufficiency in West Oakland by creating organic, sustainable, high-yield urban farms and back-yard gardens.” CitySlickerFarms.org With curly hair, humility and heart, Patrick told me the vision he sees unfolding. Lower-income families taking responsibility for their own food. Unlike other programs he’s seen, he notes that the tendency of residents to maintain their gardens is high. Of course, all the cliches of the confidence building, community bonding, consciousness breakthroughs and other cb’s ring true.
They’re not doing this because their clients can’t afford food — they’re doing this because everyone should be eating local and learning to garden on some scale; their clients just happen to be unable to afford it.
We need more City Slicker Farms. Start slicking, or help someone else slick by getting in their yard and showing them this here video.
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