Press Action ::: Countdown to Derrick Jensen-Mickey Z.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Countdown to Derrick Jensen-Mickey Z. - 1 Day

Acclaimed environmental author Derrick Jensen will be joining “professional iconoclast” and New York City author Mickey Z. in Arlington, Virginia, on Saturday, April 25, 2009, to assess the first 100 days of the Obama presidency from a vantage point unfamiliar to most Washington insiders.

The two dynamic speakers will take a close look at the new administration’s policies on the environment, civil liberties, the economy and foreign interventions. Jensen and Mickey Z. will not repeat the business-as-usual platitudes articulated by pundits on the Sunday political TV talk shows. Instead, they will offer fresh perspectives for addressing the top issues of the day.

Jensen and Mickey Z.’s public talks always inform AND entertain. On April 25, they will liberate the audience from the conventional wisdom that suffocates public debate in Washington. They will campaign for genuine change people can believe in.

Event venue The free event begins at 6 p.m. for book signings, with Jensen and Mickey Z. scheduled to take the stage at 7 p.m. The event will take place at the Arlington Temple United Methodist Church (see photo) in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington. The church is across the street from the Rosslyn Metro Station, only one Metro stop from Washington, D.C., and across Key Bridge from Georgetown. Click here for directions.

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ABOUT DERRICK JENSEN

Derrick Jensen is the acclaimed author of thirteen books, including “A Language Older Than Words,” “The Culture of Make Believe,” “Endgame,” and the brand new “What We Leave Behind.” He has been hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement.

Writes Publishers Weekly, “Jensen paints on a huge canvas an emotionally compelling and devastating critique of the intellectual, psychological, emotional and social structure of Western culture.” His premise is as profound as it is persistent: industrial civilization is inherently unsustainable. It will always require violence to biotic and human communities.

He has packed university auditoriums, conferences, and bookstores across the nation, stirring them with revolutionary spirit.

ABOUT MICKEY Z.

Mickey Z. is probably the only person on the planet to have appeared in both a karate flick with Billy Blanks and a political book with Noam Chomsky. Armed with only a high school diploma, Mickey Z. has spoken and lectured in venues ranging from Yale University and MIT to ABC No Rio and the Broadway Branch of the Queensborough Public Library.

Newsday calls Mickey Z. a “professional iconoclast.” Time Out New York says he’s a “political provocateur.” To historian Howard Zinn, he’s “iconoclastic and bold.” Sander Hicks asks of him: “How can one be so sweet and yet so fierce?” Born and raised in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, Mickey Z. is the author of several books and his work has also appeared in more than 10 published anthologies.

His novel, “CPR for Dummies,” was released in 2008, as was his latest non-fiction book, “No Innocent Bystanders: Riding Shotgun in the Land of Denial.”