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DESCRIPTION:Sonia Shaw, author and independent journalist, will speak on:: Oil in the 
 Age of Depletion: A Renewed Assault on Human Rights and the Environment  
 Sonia Shah author of Crude: The Story of Oil (Seven Stories Press, 
 September 30, 2004) will be speaking on Oil in the Age of Depletion: A 
 Renewed Assault on Human Rights and the Environment.  In Crude, author and 
 independent journalist Sonia Shah presents the first concise history of 
 this, the world's most coveted and contentious mineral.  But this portrait 
 of the fuel that defined an age is shot through with a history of 
 destruction and conflict as myriad as oil's use.  As the stakes of such 
 dangerous engagement rises, still the frenzy for oil  by worldwide 
 producers and Western consumers ramps up. Yet crude's reign, Shah suggests, 
 is in its twilight.  With peak production in the Middle East projected in 
 the next five to fifteen years, this finite natural resource that empowered 
 superpowers and defined the most  strategic regions on the earth, is 
 dwindling.   And the consequence for this New American Century may 
 determine how we live in  the next.    Sonia Shah is an independent 
 journalist whose writing has appeared in Salon.com, The Nation, The 
 Progressive, Knight-Ridder, and elsewhere. She is the editor of both the 
 critically acclaimed Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire 
 (South End Press, 1997) and Between Fear and Hope: A Decade of Peace 
 Activism (Fortkamp, 1992). A former editor at South End Press and Nuclear 
 Times magazine, her work has been widely anthologized.  Copies of the book  
  Crude: The Story of Oil will be available for sale at the event. Following 
 her speaking, Sonia Shah will be available to sign books.  Suggested 
 donation $5, no one turned away for lack of funds.  Co-Sponsored by Global 
 Exchange, New College Center for Education and Social Action and the Post 
 Carbon Institute.  For more information call: June Brashares, Global 
 Exchange 415-575-5542  or Jon Garfield, New College 415-437-3425    \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/09/27/47833.php
SUMMARY:Oil in the Age of Depletion: A Renewed Assault on Human Rights & the Environment
LOCATION:New College Theater,   777 Valencia Street  San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/09/27/47833.php
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