Capitalism vs "Mother Earth"

State School Teachers Union Function Room, 150 Adelaide Tce, East Perth (enter from carpark off Bennett St)

Gemma Weedall is an activist with the Climate Emergency Action Network of South Australia (CLEAN SA). She participated in the 20000-strong World People's Conference on Climate Change and the rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba (Bolivia), April 2010, and will discuss building the global movement for climate justice.
Jess Moore is the national coordinator of the socialist youth organisation Resistance, and a climate activist in Wollongong. She will be speaking about the incompatibility of environmental protection and the profit-driven global capitalist system.
Del Weston is an environmental researcher and activist, recently returned from South Africa. She is writing her doctoral thesis on the political economy of climate change, and will be speaking about the social and ecological impact of the fossil fuel industry on South Africa.

Part of the Socialist Ideas Conference - People-Power in the 21st Century: towards socialism and sustainability. Organised by Socialist Alliance.

See here for the full agenda.