Come protest ongoing tuition and fee hikes at the Board of Governors vote Friday at 8AM (come at 7:30AM if possible!, snacks provided by other organizations). Our divestment campaigners will give a speech calling for divestment from RBC.

Intermedia Research Studio (in partnership with Climate Action @UofA)

The Studio is delighted to announce this call for two climate justice action oriented reading groups we will be convening this Winter 2024 semester.  Read both or either of these books at your leisure in the months ahead and then join us on February 8th 1-3pm and on March 7th 1-3pm at the Senate Chamber to discuss these books. (Space is limited, kindly sign up on the registration form via links below).

Ajl, M. (2021). A People’s Green New Deal. Pluto Press. 

This book addresses key issues that are largely missing from most discussions of climate action and green new deals in North America: the perspectives of the Global South. In this regard, this book is a crucial intervention in Canadian debates regarding green new deal proposals as it helps us understand “so-called Canada’s” integration in neo-colonial political economies and political ecologies. 

Publisher’s Blurb 

In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to decommodification, working-class power, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. 

Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South. As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows, A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate. 

This book is available to download through the Open Access programme: https://library.oapen.org/handle/ 20.500.12657/48775 

Or access through UofA Library: 

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Reading Group Seminar: March 7th 2024, 1-3pm Senate Chamber, Convocation Hall 

(limited seating kindly register via this link)

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/uyj92VwCCkQYtEWc8

The Climate Cafe is a new initiative the CAUA has launched this year, and so far they have achieved all our hopes for a safe and inclusive space to chat about how we can support each other through our current global weirding moment.

Come on out and join us for our next Cafe, Tuesday February 13, from 6-7:30pm, at Mood Cafe, in the Belgravia neighbourhood. The address is: 7601 115 St NW, Edmonton.

Feel free to share this invitation and bring a friend!

Intermedia Research Studio (in partnership with Climate Action @UofA)

The Studio is delighted to announce this call for two climate justice action oriented reading groups we will be convening this Winter 2024 semester.  Read both or either of these books at your leisure in the months ahead and then join us on February 8th 1-3pm and on March 7th 1-3pm at the Senate Chamber to discuss these books. (Space is limited, kindly sign up on the registration form via links below).

Alook, Angele. (2023). The End of This World : Climate Justice in so-Called Canada. Edited by Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker. Between the Lines. 

This is an essential book for understanding both the necessities and possibilities of climate justice in “so- called Canada”. 

Publisher Blurb 

The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice go hand in hand.
Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism, the labour movement, youth climate campaigns, community- engaged scholarship, and independent journalism, the six authors challenge toothless proposals and false solutions to show that a just transition from fossil fuels cannot succeed without the dismantling of settler capitalism in Canada. Together, they envision a near future where oil and gas stay in the ground; where a caring economy provides social supports for all; where wealth is redistributed from the bloated billionaire class; and where stolen land is rightfully reclaimed under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. 

Packed with clear-eyed analysis of both short- and long-term strategies for radical social change, The End of This World promises that the next world is within reach and worth fighting for. 

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Reading Group Seminar: February 8th 2024, 1-3pm Senate Chamber, Convocation Hall 

(limited seating kindly register via this link)

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/FpvG1JjMmqLFYpyN9