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New Works of Environmental Nonfiction

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a pint and listen in on dispatches from the Great Lakes and the Big Ice, important stories of environmental justice, history, and activism. Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Metropolitan Books, will be reading alongside fellow Warren Wilson MFA alumni Justin Gardiner, author of Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic by the University of Georgia Press. Contact: Justin Gardiner

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Naomi Klein in Conversation With Thom Hartmann

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

For more than 20 years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet – and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, Klein pens prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. On Fire (Simon & Schuster) gathers Klein’s impassioned writing on the staggeringly high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. Klein will be joined in conversation by Thom Hartmann, radio host and author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment.

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Keynote Lecture: Macarena Gomez-Barris

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) 511 Northwest Broadway St, Portland, OR, United States

Macarena Gomez-Barris is a cultural critic, author and Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute. She is founder and Director of the Global South Center, a hub for critical inquiry, aesthetic praxis, and experimental forms of social living. Macarena works on cultural memory, race, queer and decolonial theory, and rethinking the anthropocene. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, a book that theorizes social life through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories (Duke University Press, 2017). She is also author of Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Politics in the Américas (UC Press, 2018), Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press, 2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a…

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Lyndsie Bourgon in Conversation With Ed Jahn

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves (Little, Brown Spark), Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous communities along the way. Old-growth trees are invaluable and irreplaceable for both humans and wildlife, and are the oldest living things on earth. But the morality of tree poaching is not as simple as we might think: stealing trees is a form of deeply rooted protest, and a side effect of environmental preservation and protection that doesn't include communities…

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