Surrey

STOP SIGNS: CARS & CAPITALISM

Book Launch & Panel Discussion

7:00pm
Tuesday June 28 2011

STOP SIGNS: Book Launch & Panel Discussion
TUESDAY JUNE 28th @ 7PM -
Kwantlen Polytechnic University Surrey

STOP SIGNS: CARS & CAPITALISM
on the road to social and economic decay
(by Bianca Mugyenyi & Yves Engler)
http://stopsigns.fairtrademedia.com/

Featuring a panel discussion with author Yves Engler,
joined by Kwantlen criminology faculty member Jeff Shantz,
on how billions of public funds are going through GATEWAY
projects to private capital corporations, and Richelle Giberson
on the local struggle against the South Fraser freeway.

TUESDAY JUNE 28th @ 7PM -
Kwantlen Polytechnic University Surrey
Conference Room B - G1205, @ corner of 126th St & 72nd Ave
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Hosted by the Critical Criminology Working Group at Kwantlen

In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile: A quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn down, remade and planned with their needs as the overriding concern; wars are fought to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise them; cathedrals are built to worship them. In Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay, authors Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi argue that the automobile’s ascendance is inextricably linked to capitalism and involved corporate malfeasance, political intrigue, backroom payoffs, media manipulation, racism, academic corruption, third world coups, secret armies, environmental destruction and war. An anti-car, road-trip story, Stop Signs is a unique must-read for all those who wish to escape the clutches of auto domination.