Derrick Jensen to speak at AK Press

AK Press and Subversive Soundz present:

Author Derrick Jensen
on Dismantling Civilization

Saturday, November 6th
7pm
AK Press

Derrick Jensen is the author of books A Language Older than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, Listening to the Land, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution, and most recently, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests and Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance and the Culture of Control with co-author George Draffan.

From Derrick Jensen: "We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity. So began my first book, Listening to the Land . Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of being? My work and life revolve around these questions."

Jensen is a writer increasingly recognized as a major new voice of cultural dissent. A Language Older Than Words has become an underground best seller on college campuses and The Culture of Make Believe was one of two finalists for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, which cited it as "a passionate and provocative meditation on the nexus of racism, genocide, environmental destruction and corporate malfeasance, where civilization meets its discontents."

"A typical Jensen event is multidimensional and feels a bit like traveling beneath the earth among tree roots, as they twist their way into soil, rock, river beds and accompany fish, insects, discarded tires, cellophane wrappers, animal minds, history, and human instinct on a strange and interlocking journey."

Event includes special guest Agent Apple of the Biotic Baking Brigade.

$5-10 sliding scale donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. A benefit for Break the Chains prisoner support (http://www.breakthechains.net).

AK Press is located at 674-A 23rd. Street, Oakland, CA between MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980.

Wheelchair accessible.

For more info contact: AK Press at 510.208.1700,
akpress [at] akpress.org, http://www.akpress.org, or
subversivesoundz [at] yahoo.com

also see http://www.derrickjensen.org