Ashley Dawson, How to Win the Fight for Public Power

Friday, February 7th / 4:00 pm to 5:30pm

Northrop Frye Centre / VC 102 in the Old Vic Building, Victoria College, University of Toronto

Free and all are welcome

This event will include a screening & discussion of a short film by Ashley Dawson entitled Peaker, which focuses on dirty power plants in New York City, where Dawson lives and is an activist with the Public Power NY campaign. In addition to focusing on environmental injustices connected to fossil capital, the event will include time to workshop ideas & strategies for building out public-controlled renewables in the US, Canada, and beyond.

Ashley Dawson is an author, activist, filmmaker, and photographer. Based in NYC, Ashley teaches as a Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. Recently published books of his include Environmentalism from Below (Haymarket, 2024), People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities (Verso, 2017), and Extinction: A Radical History (O/R, 2016). He is also the co-editor of a collection of testimonies by activists resisting neocolonial conservation entitled Decolonize Conservation! (Common Notion Books, 2024).

For more info on Ashley Dawson: https://ashleydawson.info/

Event registration link: https://partiful.com/e/MOaw9ZFkIRUdqbvcDWLq