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Suren Moodliar is the editor of the journal [https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csad20 Socialism and Democracy] and coordinator of [https://encuentro5.net/ encuentro5], a movement-building space in downtown Boston. He is the coauthor of [https://www.routledge.com/Dying-for-Capitalism-How-Big-Money-Fuels-Extinction-and-What-We-Can-Do/Derber-Moodliar/p/book/9781032512587#:~:text=%22This%20must%20read%20cogent%20book,up%20your%20sleeves%20and%20engage.%22 ''Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It''] (Routledge, 2023).
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Suren Moodliar is one of the Boston area's most effective political organizers, responsible for many endeavors, including facilitation and support of innumerable grass roots projects. He is editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy and coordinator of encuentro5, a movement-building space in downtown Boston. He is the coauthor of [https://bookshop.org/p/books/dying-for-capitalism-how-big-money-fuels-extinction-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-charles-derber/19631919?ean=9781032512587 ''Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It'']. He works with unions, citizen groups, government officials and a wide spectrum of individuals on countless social justice issues.
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LA Progressive
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October
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Many Americans'''—'''even those who recognize capitalism’s destructive impacts'''—'''find the idea of discarding capitalism for a more just system unimaginable. Yes, capitalism is part of the problem. But, they think, realistically, the world is not going to invent anytime fast a visionary postcapitalist system. Meanwhile we barrel toward environmental destruction. If we’re going to be pragmatic, as millions of concerned Americans believe, we should listen to the growing number of capitalist leaders and companies who are taking climate change seriously and proposing their own solution: green capitalism.
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Common Dreams
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November
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Perhaps more than any other day, Thanksgiving embodies the underlying embrace of endless growth and voracious consumption: normally the year’s biggest travel day, its reliance on massive amounts of fossil fuel makes the holiday a climate changing event.
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Charles Derber
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Routledge
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July
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This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students, activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world has faced. The authors challenge the widespread notion that a green and peaceful set of technological reforms in the current economic and political system'''—'''perhaps a “green capitalism”'''—'''can prevent disaster. ''Dying for Capitalism'' analyzes the “triangle of extinction” that links capitalism, environmental destruction, and militarism as a system that cannot sustain life on the planet. The authors analyze how the extinction triangle evolved historically, how it functions globally as integral to the world capitalist order, and how the United States has become the dominant “extinction nation.” They also show how recent anti-democratic and anti-scientific cultural and political forces intensify denial of the threat and subordinate health and survival to profit and extreme concentrated power. The book offers a “slender path” of social and political transformation that can prevent catastrophe. The path requires moving beyond current ruling systems. But possibilities of survival arise from action at local, state, regional, and global levels through multiple strategies and movements that already exist. The authors draw on the history of abolitionism and emancipation from slavery in the United States to show how a system that appears unchangeable can be transformed, while describing organizations, movements, and practices that are models of hope and a shift from the triangle of extinction to the “circle of creation.”
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Joseph Nevins
Eleni Mackrakis
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University of California Press
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July
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''A Peopleʼs Guide to Greater Boston'' reveals the region’s richness and vibrancy in ways that are neglected by traditional area guidebooks and obscured by many tourist destinations. Affirming the hopes, interests, and struggles of individuals and groups on the receiving end of unjust forms of power, the book showcases the ground-level forces shaping the city. Uncovering stories and places central to people’s lives over centuries, this guide takes readers to sites of oppression, resistance, organizing, and transformation in Boston and outlying neighborhoods and municipalities'''—'''from Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. It highlights tales of the places and people involved in movements to abolish slavery; to end war and militarism; to achieve Native sovereignty, racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation; and to secure workers’ rights. In so doing, this one-of-a-kind guide points the way to a radically democratic Greater
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Noam Chomsky
Charles Derber
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Routledge
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December
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In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats from nuclear weapons and from climate change'''—'''including how the concerns emerged and evolved, and how the threats can interact with one another. The introduction and accompanying interviews place these dual threats in a framework of unprecedented corporate global power which has overtaken nation states’ ability to control the future and preserve the planet. Chomsky argues for the urgency of international climate and arms agreements, showing how global popular movements are mobilizing to force governments to meet this unprecedented challenge to civilization’s survival.
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