Susan George Book Launch

international | eu | event notice Sunday April 06, 2008 19:36 by Eoin Ó Broin - Sinn Féin eoinobroin at hotmail dot com 0872794843

We the Peoples of Europe

Internationally acclaimed author and global justice activist Susan George will be in Dublin and Belfast from Tuesday April 8 to Saturday April 12 to launch her new book, We The Peoples Of Europe. The book, published by Pluto Press outlines the authors critique of the present direction of the EU, her account of the French referendum campaign on the EU Constitution in 2005 and George’s distinctive vision for the future of Europe.

We the Peoples of Europe

Book Details

Does the Lisbon Treaty advance or undermine Social Europe? Can the neo-liberal economic agenda of the EU be squared with the social needs of its citizens. After the French and Dutch electorates rejected the EU Constitution what direction should the EU now take? What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europ, why the French rejected the EU Constitution and what the implications of the Lisbon Treaty will be for the EU and its citizens. She asks how will this treaty really affect our lives and who will it really empower--corporations or ordinary Europeans? What kind of future do we want to build together as Europeans? Written with clarity and authority, We the Peoples of Europe will help you make up your own mind.

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Pluto Press (20 Mar 2008)
ISBN-10: 0745326331
ISBN-13: 978-0745326337

Author Bio

SUSAN GEORGE, the author of more than a dozen books, was born in the United States, lives in/near Paris and acquired French citizenship in 1994. She is Chair of the Planning Board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice and who are active in civil society in their own countries. Between 1999 and mid-2006 she served as Vice-President of ATTAC France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens]. Her most recent book is Hijacking America: How the Religious and Secular Right Changed What Americans Think [forthcoming, Polity Press 2008] which exists in French and Spanish and will appear in Italian, Korean, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. Nous, Peuples d'Europe [ Fayard, Paris 2005], has been published in Spanish and will appear in English early in 2008 {"We the Peoples of Europe", Pluto Press]. Another recent book in English is Another World is Possible if... [Verso, New York and London, 2004, available in many other languages).

Susan George