Please join the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives for an upcoming event featuring Christian Parenti, who will be in town to talk about his new book on the geopolitics of climate change, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (which Mike Davis has called “a brilliant weather report from the near future of world politics”). Christian’s publicist approached us when his book was released, and we had previously arranged a skype call between him and the Climate Justice network, but
since he is coming to Vancouver have joined forces with the organizers for this event, conveniently occurring during the Durban climate change talks.
DATE & TIME: Friday, December 2 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: SFU Woodward’s Campus,149 West Hastings – Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (3rd Floor), Goldcorp Centre for the Arts – map
ADMISSION: $10 – Book On-line or at the Door – (also by donation at the door). You can reserve online here.
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Christian Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics. The author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and The Freedom. Parenti has written for Fortune, The New York Times, Los AngelesTimes, Washington Post, Playboy, Mother Jones, and The London Review of Books. He has held fellowships from the Open Society Institute, Rockefeller Brother Fund and the Ford Foundation; and has won numerous awards, including the 2009 Lange-Tailor Prize and “Best Magazine Writing 2008” from the Society for Professional Journalists. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
