From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 15:43:53 EDT
"The Petroleum Commons: Struggles in Iraq, Mexico, and the Niger Delta" A Discussion with George Caffentzis Sunday November 7th, 7pm At the Fusion Arts Museum Since 1850 petroleum (rock-oil) has appeared to the world as either private property or state property. In the histories of the petroleum industry, most of the struggles over petroleum have been seen as battles among private corporations, states, and their leaders (like John D. Rockefeller and Saddam Hussein). Those who work in extracting and transporting petroleum and those who reproduce them are rarely mentioned in the histories, but petroleum is increasingly being understood in a very different way --as common property-- by these workers. Caffentzis will explore struggles for the petroleum commons in Iraq, the Niger Delta, and Chiapas and the meaning of these struggles for the anti-war and ecology movements. George Caffentzis is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine and a coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. He is author, with the Midnight Notes Collective, of “MidnightOil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992” and “Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local & Global Struggles of the Fourth World War”. Fusion Arts Museum: 57 Stanton Street, NYC. Located one block south of Houston, F or V train to 2nd Avenue. Map: http://www.howiesolo.com/map.html $5-$10 suggested donation More info: filmsandpopcorn@w... Presented by May Day Books and the Films & Popcorn Collective
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