Derrick will be speaking on Genocide in a Capitalist World. The reception is at 6:30 PM, and the talk is from 7 PM to 9 PM in Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240 at University Park Campus at USC. Map is here (http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/#upc/). Cost is recommended donation at the door--all proceeds will go to Raise Hope for Congo, a campaign of The Enough Project to end violence against women in Congo. No one will be turned away because they can't pay.
The event will center on questions of genocide and will feature multiple speakers talking about issues of violence against women, the politics of naming a genocide, environmental degradation, and water poverty that come with genocide and extreme violence. We will be examining the death urge of this culture and of capitalism, and why a system that can never be sustainable and relies on the importation of resources from poorer parts of the world is necessarily rooted in violence. We will also discuss the question of complicity, and how every member of this society has a responsibility to end this destructive cycle. The primary focus of the night will be to come up with concrete things we can do to resist.
Contact Anna with questions at (818) 633-6880.
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