The New International Bookshop

Thursday, November 26, 2015

New International Bookshop, 54 Victoria St, Trades Hall 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

 NIBS will host a public screening, in the book shop, of the new film ‘This Changes Everything,’ – the documentary inspired by the release of Naomi Klein’s new book.

Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.

Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

See the trailor here:
http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/about/

Admission: $10

To guarantee your seat, book online via the following link

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/this-changes-everything-movie-screening-tickets-6988269101

August is the anniversary of the end of World War 2. Official events are celebrating the victory of “democracy” and “freedom” over fascism and tyranny. But for the rulers of the Allied nations the war was never about de-mocracy or freedom. In some ways there were parallel wars: apart from the clash of imperialisms, there were opposition actions fought by ordinary people, mobilised by anti-fascist, democratic sentiments. Edited by Donny Gluckstein, the book contains 11 chapters on different countries. Four authors are Australian and they will all be present to speak and sign your copy of the book.

SPEAKERS
Book launch – Donny Gluckstein (video)
Resistance in Japan – Kaye Broadbent
Resistance in Australia – Tom O’Lincoln

Special launch discount price $25!
To purchase the book at the launch rate contact NIBS by 21 August. After this date RRP $45

In addition to the book launch, there will be the launch of INTERVENTIONS – a new socialist publishing venture.
Launch of INTERVENTIONS – Jeff Sparrow
What is INTERVENTIONS? – Janey Stone

When: Friday 21st August 6:30pm for 7pm start

Where: New International Bookshop

RSVP on facebook here

Entry free. Nibbles provided. Drinks at bar prices. Booking not required.

Tim Muzio, senior lecturer in international relations and political economy at the University of Wollongong in Australia, will give a talk about his new book “The 1% and the Rest of Us”. In the book Tim explores what it means to be part of a socio-economic order presided over by the super-rich and their political servants.

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the discounted rate of $35.

Admission: $5

When Thursday, September 10, 6:45pm

Where: The New International Bookshop, 54 Victoria St, Carlton

For more information contact the bookshop

Petros Constantinou is a long-term socialist activist from Greece. As a member of the anti-capitalist coalition Antarsya, the Greek socialist organisation, SEK, and a councillor for Athens, Petros has been a part of the momentous struggle of Greek workers against austerity in the midst of capitalism’s greatest crisis since the Great Depression. Now, as the newly-elected left party Syriza tries to manage the crisis, come and hear Petros speak on the way forward for the fight against austerity.

Cost:
Waged – $5 at door
Unwaged/students – by donation

Co-Hosted by The New International Bookshop & Solidaritywww.solidarity.net.au

For more info contact 9662 3744 or nibscoordinator@gmail.com