Ashley Dawson on Environmentalism from Below

people taking over the streets of downtown Cochabamba during the Water War of 2000.

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Ashley Dawson about his new book, Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet (Haymarket Books).

 

Ashley is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books on key topics in the environmental humanities, including People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, and Extinction: A Radical History. A member of the Public Power NY campaign and the founder of the CUNY Climate Action Lab, he is a long-time climate justice activist.

CounterPunch Radio is produced by Nathaniel St. Clair, and co-hosted by Joshua Frank, Erik Wallenberg and Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt.