Permanence : La B.O.U.M. présente "This system is killing us" de Xander Dunalp

L'évènement aura lieu en anglais. Event in English.

[English below]

La B.O.U.M. vous invite à venir découvrir et discuter du nouveau livre This System is Killing Us avec son auteurice Xander Dunlap. Ça parlera écologie, colonialisme et capitalisme.
La présentation et la discussion seront en anglais, une traduction pourra être organisée pour la partie discussion en fonction des nécessités, n'hésitez pas à demander à l'avance.

Horaire :
18:00 :
-début de la permanence, possibilité d'emprunter des livres à la B.O.U.M.
- Info kiosque spécifique pour choper des brochures en lien avec les thèmes de la présentation
- Repas soupe prix libre en soutien à « Justice Pour Adil »
19:30 :
- Présentation puis discussion

The B.O.U.M will host an event to discover and discuss about the book This System is Killing Us with their author Xander Dunlap. The discussion might go around ecology, colonialism and capitalism.
The presentation and the discussion will take place in english, a translation could be organized for the discussion depending on the needs.

Schedual :
6pm :
-opening of the library, borrowing books
- Infokiosque with zines about topics connected to the presentation
- Soup support price for « Justice pour Adil »
7.30pm :
- Presentation and discussion

Source of the text below - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348827/this…

About the book : This System is Killing Us is an insider look at the catastrophic effects that energy infrastructure and mining are having on communities, their land and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land defenders across the world to uncover evidence of the repression people have faced in the wake of untamed capitalist growth.

From Zapotec and Ikoot people struggling against wind energy projects in Oaxaca, Mexico to the violence of the Hambach mine in the German Rhineland, Dunlap presents the truth that lies behind the green re-branding of capitalism that social movements in the Global North have been slow to challenge.

By centring the struggles of people whose lives are being systematically destroyed, Dunlap reveals blind spots within the current official debates around climate change. The book also speaks to the feuds between socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe, by understanding the successes and failures of those 'on the front lines', it becomes clear that decentralised-and ideally viral-self-organisation could be the only way out of this socioecological nightmare.

*All royalties from the book are being donated to the Stop Cop City Movement and Atlanta Solidarity Fund*

About the author : Xander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University, USA, and a visiting research fellow in the Global Development Studies Department, University of Helsinki, Finland. Their work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in Latin America, Europe and the United States. They have written numerous books, most recently Enforcing Ecocide : Power, Policing and Planetary Militarization. They are a long-time participant in anti-police, squatting and environmental movements.