Agriculture and Food: Sustainable or Profitable?

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AGRICULTURE & FOOD: SUSTAINABLE OR PROFITABLE?
Featuring Nancy Romer, David Barkan & Brian Tokar
(Fred Magdoff’s flight was cancelled and was not able to speak)

Nancy Romer is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and General Coordinator of the Brooklyn Food Coalition.

David Barkin is Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and collaborates with communities involved in constructing post-capitalist societies.

Brian Tokar is an activist and author, director of the Vermont-based Institute for Social Ecology, and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative, Earth for Sale, and Toward Climate Justice, has edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the recent collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis (Monthly Review Press).

Gloria Mattera: What Is Ecosocialism and How Do We Get There?

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Gloria Mattera is a public health worker and activist for peace, universal health care and community-based development. She is currently co-chair of the New York State Green Party, and she ran for City Council in Brooklyn in 2001 and 2003, for Brooklyn Borough President in 2005, and for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 2010.

Joel Kovel: What Is Ecosocialism and How Do We Get There?

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Joel Kovel is a scholar, author, and activist. His first book, White Racism, was nominated for a National Book Award, and his tenth book, Overcoming Zionism, was banned by its distributor, the University of Michigan Press. He has been fired from two prestigious professorships for his political beliefs, lectured on five continents, edited the journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and been a founder of the Ecosocialist movement, most recently, EcoSocialist Horizons.

Chris Williams: What Is Ecosocialism and How Do We Get There?

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Chris Williams is a long-time environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket). He is chair of the science department at Packer Collegiate Institute and adjunct professor at Pace University in the Department of Chemistry and Physical Science. He reported from Fukushima in December and January of 2012 and was a Lannan writer-in-residence in Marfa, Texas, in summer 2012, where he began work on his second book on the Commons.

Jill Stein: Why Capitalism Is Killing the Planet

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Dr. Jill Stein was the nominee of the Green Party for President of the United States in the 2012 election. She is a mother, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate. She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, °In Harm’s Way, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging. The reports promote green local economies, sustainable agriculture, clean power, and freedom from toxic threats.

Richard Smith: Why Capitalism Is Killing the Planet

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Dr. Richard Smith has been a mechanic, trans-African eco-tour leader, carpenter builder, and university lecturer at Rutgers. He has written extensively on capitalism and China’s environment, and on ecology and capitalism for New Left Review, Monthly Review, the Ecologist and other magazines and academic journals. He is completing a book on capitalism, global ecological collapse, and the eco-socialist alternative.