Politics at writers festival

@9point non= SYDNEY — An estimated 50,000 people turned up to hear at least 200 international and local writers and journalists speak during the May 23-30 Sydney Writers Festival.

Renown Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, interviewed by Peter Garrett, told an audience of 1000 people at the Sydney Town Hall "that 16,000 Canadians die every year from pollution". Suzuki's strategy for overcoming environmental devastation was eco-taxes

on food, giving up meat and getting people in the West to use their cars only once a week.

British left-wing writer Tariq Ali noted in his forum that "we need to identify with Venezuela and the unfolding movements in Latin America".

Rachel Evans

From Green Left Weekly, June 8, 2005.

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From GLW issue 629