NIBS Turns 25
Book Ticket Here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/quarter-century-of-nibs-in-conversation-with-jeff-sparrow-tickets-217288986207
Must be fully vaccinated to attend this event.
15th December 6pm-730pm Meeting Room 1 Trades Hall
Upstairs from NIBS
Naarm's / Melbourne's radical left bookshop turns 25. Jeff Sparrow discusses his new book "Crimes Against Nature" with former NIBS coordinator Seb Prowse.
Join us to celebrate NIBS turning 25 this December.
Former NIBS coordinator Seb Prowse will be in conversation with Jeff Sparrow about his new book "Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating." This book will be available at the event.
Celebrate the NIBS volunteers, the community at NIBS and of course the radical left ideas. We hope to see you all there.
Jim Crosthwaite will also speak to the history of NIBS. Current volunteers will speak about their experience at NIBS.
Drinks, nibbles and books available for the night.
More info to come closer to the date.
About the book:
Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming - the one in which we are all to blame - and inverts it, to show how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will. From histories of destruction, it distils stories of hope, highlighting the repeated yearning for a more sustainable world.
In the era of climate strikes, viral outbreaks, and Extinction Rebellion, Crimes Against Nature moves from ancient Australia to the 'corpse economy' of Georgian Britain to the 'Kitchen Debate' of the Cold War, to present an unexpected and optimistic environmental history - one that identifies ordinary people not as a collective problem but as a powerful force for change.
About the Author
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster, and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a columnist for The Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at Melbourne's 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland literary journal. His most recent books are Fascists Among Us- online hate and the Christchurch massacre; Trigger Warnings- political correctness and the rise of the right; and No Way But This- in search of Paul Robeson. He lectures at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.