Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism Edmonton Book Launch

Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
Edmonton book launch with co-author Yves Engler
Sunday, July 3 (7:00 pm)
Law Centre Room 201A
Corner of 111 Street and 89 Avenue, University of Alberta Campus
(Click here for map)
FREE

 

An Edmonton Bike Month event sponsored by the Council of Canadians-U of A Chapter and Edmonton Bicycle Commuters.

Invite your friends to the Facebook event.

In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile: A quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn down, remade and planned with their needs as the overriding concern; wars are fought to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise them; cathedrals are built to worship them.

In Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay, authors Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi argue that the automobile’s ascendance is inextricably linked to capitalism and involved corporate malfeasance, political intrigue, backroom payoffs, media manipulation, racism, academic corruption, third world coups, secret armies, environmental destruction and war. When we challenge the domination of cars, we also challenge capitalism.

An anti-car, road-trip story, Stop Signs is a unique must-read for all those who wish to escape the clutches of auto insanity.

To learn more about the book and the North American tour, visit http://stopsigns.fairtrademedia.com/

Praise for Stop Signs

“Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler’s Stop Signs is at one and the same time an entertaining, fact-filled anthropological tour of the land of Homo Automomotivis, and the first all-out global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.”
-John Bellamy Foster, co-author, The Ecological Rift

“With wit and originality, Mugyenyi and Engler weave travel tales into a convincing argument against the auto economy, culminating with a fresh call to leave car culture behind.”
-Katie Alvord, author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile

“This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the impact of the private automobile on our urban transportation options.”
-David Cadman, Vancouver city councilor, International President ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability

”You come away shaken, but ready to roll up your sleeves and to contribute, however modestly, to constructing a new world in the 21st century.”
-Richard Bergeron, Montreal city councilor, urban planner and author

About the authors of Stop Signs

YVES ENGLER is the author of four previous books, including The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, which was a finalist for the Mavis Gallant non-fiction award.

BIANCA MUGYENYI coordinates campaigns at Concordia University’s Centre for Gender Advocacy.