<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>***FORWARD WIDELY***</b></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 16pt;">A public forum co-sponsored by the Boston International Socialist Organization and Haymarket Books</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height: 24px; font-size: 16pt;"><br></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"
class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt;">Rising profits, Sinking planet: </span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt;">Socialist solutions to the climate crisis</span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 22pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Featuring Chris Williams, author of <a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Ecology-and-Socialism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207);">Ecology and Socialism</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">(Haymarket Books, 2010)<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height:
15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Verdana">December 15, 6pm<u></u><u></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Verdana">Spontaneous Celebrations<u></u><u></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Verdana">45 Danforth St, JP<u></u><u></u></font></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Verdana">Stonybrook T Stop</font></div><div style="text-align: center; color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Verdana">*Book signing following forum*</font><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="Garamond"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 13.5pt;">Hurricane Sandy is just one of the latest disasters that has exposed the realities of the climate crisis we continue to face around the world.</span><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-size: 12pt;"> Just over the past few years we
have witnessed the BP oil spill, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima and many other incidents of environmental catastrophe that are ultimately results of a society based on profit and not human need. The social crisis that continues in NY post-hurricane Sandy has also opened up a lot of questions around climate change; who is affected by climate change? Why aren’t we putting any resources into infrastructure to prepare for these disasters? What is causing climate change? And what could a society based on human need look like in light of the amazing work done by Occupy Sandy?</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">We have seen again and again both parties commit to an agenda that is driven by profit and exploits the
environment at any and all costs. In the United States and around the world, a petroleum based economy has led to the destruction of the environment through fracking, tar sands extraction, war, etc. In a world that was democratically run by workers, resources could be used to provide basic necessities for people. What if we invested our resources into things that mattered such as sustainable energy, public transportation, education or healthcare? Under capitalism, we instead invest resources into destructive industries such as advertising and the military industrial complex.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 15.9pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana">The only way we can we challenge the climate crisis is to fight for revolutionary transformation. Capitalism is
fundamentally incompatible with a sustainable environment and we have a huge role to play in challenging the attacks on the environment and working towards building a future society based on democracy and cooperation not exploitation and competition</font></span><span style="line-height: 15.9pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana">. Join the discussion, “Rising profits, Sinking planet: Socialist solutions to the climate crisis” where we can talk about what it will take to overcome the climate crisis and what a future sustainable society could look like.</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana"><b>Check out these great resources on capitalism and ecology:</b></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;" href="http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/05/how-to-fight-climate-change" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to fight climate change</a><span style="line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> by Chris Williams (<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://socialistworker.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socialistworker.org</a> article)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;" href="http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/20/a-system-of-disasters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A system of disaster</a><span style="line-height: 15.9pt;
font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> by Mike Davis (<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://socialistworker.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socialistworker.org</a> article)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Verdana"><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://isreview.org/issues/82/rev-magdoff&foster.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Economic roots of the environmental crisis</a> by Dan Sharber (International Socialist Review article)</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><font color="#222222" size="3" face="Verdana"><span style="line-height: 21.2px;"><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ClimateandCapitalism.com</a> an ecosocialist journal reflecting the viewpoint of environmental Marxism</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); line-height: 21.2px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" href="http://wearemany.org/a/world-on-fire-capitalism-environment-and-our-future" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World on fire: Capitalism, the environment, and our future</a><span style="line-height: 21.2px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> with Dan Sharber (<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="http://wearemany.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wearemany.org</a>audio)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 15.9pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 16.2pt;" class="yiv12312778MsoNormal"><b
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