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A Climate of Change: Working for Peace, Environment and Social Justice
Fri, 02/12/2010 - 5:30pm
Sat, 02/13/2010 - 9:00pm
Location: 
Orson Spencer Hall
260 Central Campus Dr
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Two-day conference with speaking guests, readings and signings at Orson Spencer Hall and the adjacent University Union Building at the University of Utah Campus. Conference speakers include: Scientist and philosopher, keynote speaker Tyler Volk; labor activist, union organizer, attorney and journalist Steve Early; speaker and freelance journalist, Alison Weir; Rand Wilson, a labor movement luminary; and SLC author Barbara Richardson who will conduct a book reading and signing about the novel Guest House.
The Healthy Planet Mobilization Committee initiated this conference in cooperation with the Campus Committee for Peace and Justice at the Univ. of Utah and with the support of Utah Jobs with Justice and the Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice. Other campus sponsors include the Univ. of Utah’s Office of Sustainability, the Peace and Conflict Resolution Program and the Economics Department.
The conference is free and open to the public.
Please visit this website for the complete conference schedule and maps to the event

 

CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge (Hardcover)

By Tyler Volk
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9780262220835
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: MIT Press (MA), 10/01/2008

Bill McKibben says "Tyler Volk lays out the numbers to show
why we need a far more urgent and dramatic response to global warming
than we've attempted to date."

Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home (Paperback)

By Steve Early
$17.95
ISBN-13: 9781583671887
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Monthly Review Press, 07/01/2009

In the trenches at the Communication Workers of America for twenty years, Steve has published articles in The Nation, The Progressive, The New York Times, and CounterPunch, to name a few. One reviewer says: "Early combines a realistic understanding of union functioning with the passionate outrage of a union reformer." His passion will help forge the link between social justice and a healthy planet.

Guest House (Paperback)

By Barbara K. Richardson
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780981957715
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bay Tree Publishing, 03/01/2010