Darkness at Noon

A copy of last night’s very engaging forum is now available for download and podcast.

 

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I’ll be on 3CR tonight at about 5:35 so be sure to listen in if you’re in Melbourne. It’s 855 on your am dial.

I’ll be talking with David about tonight’s forum with Robyn Eckersley.

I just came across this post at My 2.2 cents.

It’s a worth while reminder of Howard’s record on reconciliation.

Treat now. Sovereignty now.

Well, one of my heroes, Lawrence Lessig has switched issues from copyright to lobbyocracy corruption.

…and he’s still brilliant:

Well it’s finally been called but you already know that and I just feel like I really should acknowledge it.

The Centre is specifically non-party but it’s a no brainer that we are anti-Howard. The problem with this is it leaves you desperately hoping that Rudd will win but we don’t endorse him in any way. In fact I suspect it is also a no-brainer that we are highly skeptical of the man who is certainly to the right of what I’d hope a Labor party would be.

So the directors will all vote in various ways and one of us isn’t even a permanent resident (yet) so can’t vote at all.

For all of it though I’m a bit of a political junky (why else would I be a director of this organisation) so I do quite enjoy an election in a seemingly sadistic manner. Let’s hope it’s the beginning of the end for Howard.

As the market is flooded with everything from “Green bags” to environmentally responsible investment funds it becomes clear that capitalism is desperately trying to adapt to the pending social and environmental disasters of global warming and peak oil while still ensuring you consume.

In our second last forum for the year we explore the way in which capitalism is defending itself from environmental collapse and ask if a green capitalist economy is possible?

Speaker: Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley was educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, and taught political science at Monash University from 1992-2001 before joining the University of Melbourne in 2002. Her research interests include global politics, environmental politics and political theory (particularly theories of justice and democracy). She is on the editorial boards of Environmental Politics; Environmental Values; Ethics, Place and Environment; Global Change , Peace & Security; Global Environmental Politics; International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development; New Political Economy; Organization and Environment; and Politics and Ethics Review.

When: Tue 30th October, 6:30 for a 7pm start.
Where: Stork Hotel [504 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne]
Cost: $5 (free for ACDJ members)
Contact: centre@democracyandjustice.org

Thanks to LP, my attention has been drawn to the fact that 4 Green’s Senators have decided to start a blog – something that I think should be applauded.

The post even mentions “open source democracy”.

Yeeeeessss, go on….

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A pod cast of our latest forum is now available below – it was a really great forum so I hope you enjoy it.

 

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