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As Franz Kafka put it, you may not destroy someone's
world unless you are prepared to offer a better one. But no redemption can be found in the avoidance of difficult
issues. Redemption comes only after we have moved through the
horrors of our present situation to the better world that lies beyond it. By confronting the problem as
courageously as we can and at the same time presenting alternatives, our barriers to clarity, including our false
hopes, may crumble to reveal previously unseen possibilities. |
Derrick Jensen,
A Language Older Than Words
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Events
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| Weekly Meetings
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Every Friday evening at 8PM, 2-D Co-op, 2 Dickinson Street.
The Co-op welcomes people to come to dinner at 6:30 before the meeting.
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Weekly Anti-War vigils
Every Saturday afternoon at 1 pm, in Palmer Square in Princeton.
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Local activists from a number of central New Jersey groups converge for a visible show of opposition to the threats
of war in the Middle East. For more information look at the webpage of our coalition member, the
Princeton Peace Network.
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February 10, 2003
Lecture: 7:30 pm, McCosh Hall Room 10
Activist Workshop: 2:00 pm, Murray Dodge Cafe
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Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen will speak on the roots of violence in our culture and sources of resistance.
Jensen is the acclaimed author of The Culture of Make Believe and A Language Older Than
Words. He interweaves the deeply personal, the political, the historical, and the philosophical, as
he attempts to understand the atrocities that characterize so much
of our culture. Jensen believes that only through
understanding these atrocities, and by feeling the sorrow and despair caused by
them, then moving through that despair, will we be able to make significant
movement toward halting them. For more information about Jensen's work click
here. Derrick Jensen's appearance is part of our
speaker series Progress and its Discontents. If you have accessibility concerns contact us at sgilmore@princeton.edu or (609)683-0229.
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February 11, 2003
7:30 pm, Betts Auditorium
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Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance will speak on Public Policy
and the Economic Health of a Small Town. This event is presented by the Student Volunteer Council.
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February 15, 2003
New York City
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The World Says No To War
Another World Is Possible is participating in the giant New York City anti-war march sponsored by United For Peace. For
information about the march click here. For local
transportation options email Another World Is Possible.
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| March, 2003
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David Quist
Berkeley biologist David Quist co-published the recent controversial Nature paper on evidence
of genetic contamination in Mexican maize, which was attacked by corporate-funded scientists. He will speak
about his results and the scientific community's institutional reaction to this publication. An open
discussion period will follow. David Quist's
appearance is part of our speaker series Progress and its Discontents.
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See our expanding reading list and book recommendations here.
If you are looking for the New York "Another World is Possible"
Coalition who organized the anti-WEF protests, please go
here
Another World Is Possible
Over the past several years, resistance to the faceless institutions
that govern the global economic systems has been steadily growing and becoming more visible,
from massive demonstrations in India and Southeast Asia to large-scale popular protest
throughout Latin America. Since recent protests in Geneva, London and Seattle, first-world
urban protests have become central in undermining these institutions' carefully constructed
public image. Another World is Possible was started last year as a coalition of Princeton groups and individuals
to involve students
in these protests and to educate the community about the issues behind them.
Currently we continue to participate in large globalization protests, while also exploring the
deeper issues behind them—drawing links between racism, sexism, environmental destruction,
industrialization and exploitation of workers. Through this exploration we move forward to
positive, life-affirming visions for the future. This year, along with publicizing and
participating in this September's World Bank-IMF protests in Washington DC, we will be
participating in a local campaign to convert the university's coffee purchases to sources
that guarantee fair prices to the producers. Also this year we are planning a speaker
series organized around the theme of "progress and its discontents".
Coalition Members
Contact
Emily
to add your group.
Links
 The Peace Research Institute in Oslo has studied the major wars of the1990s
(overwhelmingly civil wars, not inter-country wars) and found that they share certain
characteristics: they have taken place in countries with high levels of poverty and
land degradation, low freshwater availability, high external debt, falling export income
from primary commodities and a history of vigorous IMF intervention -- all conditions
heightened, if not totally caused, by the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO.
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Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke,
Global Showdown
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