Recently, MRP author Alan Wieder talked to longtime radio host Marc Steiner of WEAA 88.9 FM about his new book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation… | more…
The position requires three days per week, pays $25k/year, and includes medical and dental benefits, and employer contribution to a pension plan.
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Wednesday, September 28 at The Workmen’s Circle, 247 W. 37th Street, 6-8:00pm
Thursday, September 29 at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, 7-9:30pm… | more…
“On August 29 of this year the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) recommended to the International Geological Congress (IGC) that the ‘Anthropocene’ – the epoch when human activity has had a significant impact on the ecosystem – should have formal recognition. Ian Angus’s book is therefore highly relevant – the AWG hopes that recognition will be forthcoming at the next IGC, which will take place in Delhi in 2020….”… | more…
“A growing number of scientists, environmentalists and other experts have come to the conclusion that the human race has had such a deep and fundamental impact on the planet that we have effectively entered into a new geological age in the history of the Earth. They argue that the changes that have been brought about by human activity over the past 200 years, but more specifically since the end of the Second World War, has had a permanent effect on our ecology. We have, they say, moved from the Holocene to the Anthropocene epoch, one which future scientists will be able to pinpoint just by studying these effects on our environment….¶ Ian Angus will hold a book launch for Facing the Anthropocene at Octopus Books, 251 Bank Street, 2nd floor, Ottawa, on September 27 at 7 pm.”… | more…
On September 21, Alan Wieder, author of Studs Terkel, Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation, sat down with David Whettstone in a studio of Washington D.C.’s WPFW. There, on “Community Watch and Comment,”they talked about Studs and played some of his old radio clips.… | more…
Alan Wieder talks about Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation with Dan Polletta of Cleveland’s WCPN/WCLV ideastream… | more…
This summer, a panel of geologists voted to recognize today as an age where human activities match or exceed natural forces and are globally significant. They named it the Anthropocene. On September 13, Ian Angus, an author and eco-socialist activist, spoke at a colloquium organized by UBC’s geography department, addressing this proposed geological epoch and introducing his new book, Facing the Anthropocene.… | more…
in which Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, talks to Jennifer Estendorp of Inside Ottawa Valley
“What is the Anthropocene you ask?
‘Geologists divide the history of our world into increments, based on what they know about eras,’ explained Ian Angus, local author. ‘Currently, we’re in the Holocene epoch.’… | more…
“Over half a century ago, as Latin American households were celebrating the start of a new year, some good news arrived from Cuba: a guerrilla army with a social base among the peasantry triumphed on the Caribbean island, liberating the country from the tyrannical Batista regime. A political process began that not only aimed to overthrow a dictator, but sought to follow a consistently revolutionary line: genuinely transform society for the benefit of the great majority….”… | more…
We are never going to get a better truth-telling antidote than the one John Marciano provides. Longtime activist and scholar, author of Civil Illiteracy and Education, the battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth and co-author of Teaching the Vietnam War, Marciano knows his stuff.… | more…
