Stephen D’Arcy
Stephen D’Arcy is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Philosophy at Huron University College. He is the author of Languages of the Unheard: The Ethics of Militant Protest (Between the Lines). He is also a climate justice and economic democracy activist.
Tony Weis
Tony Weis is an associate professor in Geography at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming and The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock (both with Zed Books).
Toban Black
Toban Black is a community organizer and a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, with research focused on environmental justice, the political economy of energy systems, and theories of social change.
Praise
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
SKU: 9781629630397
Editors: Joshua Kahn, Stephen D’Arcy, Tony Weis, Toban Black • Foreword by Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629630397
Published: 9/2014
Format: Paperback, ePub, mobi, PDF
Size: 9 x 6
Page count: 392
Subjects: Politics-Activism/Nature-Environment
Praise
“They (Crass) sowed the ground for the return of serious anarchism in the early eighties.” –Jon Savage, England’s Dreaming
“The tar sands has become a key front in the fight against climate
change, and the fight for a better future, and it’s hard to overstate
the importance of the struggles it has inspired.”
—Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
“Avoiding ‘game over for climate’ requires drawing a line in the tar sands sludge. A Line in the Tar Sands makes clear why and how this tar sands quagmire could be the beginning of the end for the mighty fossil fuel industry.”
—Dr. James Hansen, NASA
“From Indigenous people’s sharing of prophecy, to lock-downs and
blockades, from marches to hip-hop tours, from horseback rides to hunger
strikes, and from mass arrests in front of the White House and
Parliament to court battles, A Line in the Tar Sands examines
the ongoing struggle to protect Sacred Water and Mother Earth through
the voices and actions of the people who are living it. Read A Line in the Tar Sands and
be heartbroken to learn the extent of the destruction of Mother Earth.
Be inspired by the people working to stop the destruction.”
—Debra White Plume, Moccasins on the Ground, Owe Aku International
“The most important stories in the tar sands struggle are hidden by
the media. This revelatory book tells of Canadian duplicity, Chinese
capital, migrant workers, healing ceremonies, movement reflection and
strategy, EU lobbying, the contradictions of NGO politics, Indigenous
activism, and much more. The story of Greenhouse Goo is global. But so
it its resistance: beautiful, complex, and rich. A Line in the Tar Sands
is drawn with hope and righteous anger, celebrating the cosmologies
that the tar sands industry—and its politicians—would destroy.”
—Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
“This collaborative effort not only details the insanity of tar sands
development, it also shines a light on the Indigenous-led resistance
movement challenging the fundamentally exploitative paradigm underlying
extreme energy extraction. It provides a model of genuine solidarity in
the fight to replace oppression with a healthy and just world.”
—Tim Dechristopher, Bidder 70
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Reviews
- A Line in the Tar Sands: A Review in UnderCurrents
- A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice in Z Communications
- A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
- A Line in the Tar Sands excerpt on the Socialist Project
- Why we need to win the battle over the tar sands
- A Line in the Tar Sands: A Publishers Weekly Review