Montreal, Qc, Ca
On Thursday May 15, at UQAM, John Zerzan will give the first of three conferences presenting some of his ideas. The theme is "The Earth's Global Crisis, Radical perspectives".

Anarchist theorist and author of:

Elements of Refusal (1988)
Future Primitive (1994)
Running on Emptyness: the Pathology of Civilization (2002)
Against Civilization; Readings and Reflections (2005)

His new book Twilight of the Machines is due out this year.

Zerzan is also editor of Green Anarchy, the largest circulation English-language anarchist magazine in North America. He's a writer for Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, and he hosts "Anarchy Radio" in his home town of Eugene, Oregon. He has international speaking engagements, with recent talks in Turkey, Est and Western Europe, Brazil, and of course in the USA and Canada.

The first conference is on Thursday May 15, doors 7 p.m. starts 7:30 p.m.
UQAM, 200 Sherbrooke W, Sherbrooke Pavillion hall SH-R810
Place-des-arts metro.
$5 contribution suggested

His second talk on Friday May 16, "Pretentions of Modernity", takes place in NDG, at the Co-op de la Maison Verte.
May 16, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
5785 Sherbrooke W.
For more information: www.cooplamaisonverte.com

The third event takes place at the Anarchist Bookfair on the theme of "Anarcho-Primitivism, Archeology and Anthropology":

Anarcho-primitivism is a current in anarchy emphasizing the critique of the various manifestations of domination in civilisation. This includes the pervasive use of techniques, division of labour, capitalism, industrialism, statism, class society. Anarcho-primitivsm attempts to trace a geneology of how these facts of civilisation developed. Drawing from recent archeological and anthropological research, anarcho-primitivsm looks at practices of early humanity, and attempts to to draw out their liberatory possibilities for a "future primitive".

Workshop on "Anarcho-Primitivism, Archeology and Anthropology"
Sunday May 18, 10 a.m.
2515 Delisle, Lionel-Groulx metro

The UQAM conference and the Bookfair Workshop are presented by the green-anarchist group La Mauvaise Herbe.

"It may be that our only real hope is the recovery of a face-to-face social existence, a radical decentralization, a dismantling of the devouring, estranging productionist, high-tech trajectory that is so impoverishing." (What is anarchism?)

"Ever-growing documentation of human prehistory as a very long period of largely non-alienated life stands in sharp contrast to the increasingly stark failures of untenable modernity." (Why Primitivism?)

There are many references online to Zerzan, and he even generates lively debate within the anarchist community. Here are two links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan
www.johnzerzan.net
Some of his presentations and documentaries in which he participates can be found on Youtube.com

"John Zerzan can now credibly claim the honor of being America's most famous anarchist. His writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious."-Derrick Jensen, Utne Reader

For more information contact la Mauvaise Herbe: mh (at) riseup.net