Lands, Trees and Justice: Politics and the Environment
Alexander Cockburn
Tuesday, 07 Nov 1989 at 3:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Alexander Cockburn writes columns for The Nation, Wall Street Journal and many other major and alternate publications. He has appeared on Nightline and The Phil Donahue Show and his books include Political Ecology and The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. Raised in Ireland and educated at Oxford, his father was the distinguished radical journalist Claud Cockburn.Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis
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