Kolya Abramsky on Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution
Don’t know if I mentioned it in a recent post or not, but out here in Baltimore, we’re right in the middle of a run of five AK Press related events co-hosted with Red Emma’s. We started on November 4 with Raúl Zibechi on Dispersing Power, and then followed that up with Kolya Abramsky on Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution and Ben Dangl on Dancing with Dynamite last week, and are finishing off the run with Eddie Conway (by speakerphone) last night (Tuesday), and our monthly Radical Publishing Happy Hour (read: cocktail party at the AK Baltimore warehouse!) on Thursday. Whew!
BUT, back last week, we had author and energy activist Kolya Abramsky here with us in Baltimore for a few days, and we managed to get a recording of his talk at Red Emma’s on the collection he edited for AK Press this past spring, called Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. If you haven’t checked out this book yet, you really should—it’s massive, with essays documenting and discussing energy struggles in more than 50 nations around the world. This is the definitive volume on energy struggles and the crisis of capitalism, and, as the heated debate after Kolya’s Baltimore event demonstrated, these issues are really in the fore of people’s minds right now.
Here’s a link to the audio of the talk. Be sure to check it out! And, more reports on AK events in Baltimore to come!