[Seattle-editorial] Derrick Jensen Lecture!

[Naina Arora]

please forward widely!

"All across the country, I ask activists and others, "Do you believe our
Culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way
of living?" Out of hundreds of people I've asked, not a single one has answered
even remotely in the affirmative."  -Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen is coming to Seattle! He will be speaking at the University of
Washington, in Seattle at Kane Hall room 120, on Thursday November 6th at 7pm.
The talk is open the public and tickets are not required. A workshop will also
be held from 3:30-5:30 at the Ethnic Cultural Center on 40th and Brooklyn.

As an activist, writer, journalist, and philosopher, Derrick Jensen explores
the complexities of violence, the nature of responsibility, and the power and
necessity of expression.

Jensen is a new American voice, writing in the tradition of Henry David
Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Audrey Lorde. In his recent book, A Language Older
Than Words (Context Books), he examines how humans retreat into silence,
denial, deception, and self-reproach in the face of deep injustice. In a series
of essays, he relates his life experiences as a small farmer and bee-keeper, a
creative writing instructor in a Federal prison, and as an activist opposing
the logging industry and the decimation of wild salmon.

But underpinning his distinctive writing lies the fact that he was severely
abused as a child by his father and that he has experienced the physically
debilitating effects of Crohn's Disease. Jensen's radical honesty about
personal and state violence, the decimation of human and natural resources, and
the psychological and spiritual processes leading to change are deeply relevant
to understanding and acting in our changing world.

Jensen has been an active commentator in the alternative press, interviewing
such figures as Ramsey Clark, Satish Kumar, Joseph Campbell, Robert McChesney,
Vine Deloria, Kalle Lasn, Frances Moore Lappé, John Zerzan, and Robert Jay
Lifton. His interviews have been collected in, Listening to the Land (Sierra
Club Books). He has two books ready for publication, one a novel about social
activism and the other on the topic of hate. For more resources on Derrick
Jensen, go to: http://www.derrickjensen.org/.

For directions to Kane Hall visit:
http://www.washington.edu/admin/parking/directions/

For more information on the lecture or workshop, please contact:
naina at u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/ursus/jensen.html