1in12 Reading Group - Science and Capitalism

Event published by 1in12 Reading Group

Event date: September 15, 2011 19:30

Published by group: 1 in 12 Club

Tagged as: british_science_festival

Places: 1in12 bradford

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Reading Group on
Science and Capitalism

As the British Science Festival visits Bradford we will be holding a reading group on the subject of science and capitalism. You are welcome to read anything on the subject, we will then share what we have read and use that as a starting point for an informal group discussion.
Everyone is welcome to come along to the reading group. Even if you haven't read anything on the subject, please come along and have a listen to what others have been reading about anyway, it will be fun and informal.

The 1in12  is a members club based on the principles of Liberty, Equality and Solidarity. It has a strong history of members challenging the status quo, pursuing radical change, and fighting capitalism. Conventional science is not not immune from the corruption of capitalism like any of the other political struggles that we face. We hope this will be a safe space to explore ideas of how science as an industry affects global society and the environment.

Although the 1in12 Bar will be open (on a different floor to the reading group) this will be an alcohol free event. You are welcome to visit the bar after the reading group for drinks. The bar is open to members and guests.


To get you started here are some suggestions to choose from;

Books you can read online for free:
- ‘Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America' by E. Richard Brown
You can read this for free online at Google Books here.
- 'Brave new seeds. : The threat of GM crops to farmers' by Robert De la Perriere.
You can read this for free online at Google Books here.

You can borrow these for free from Bradford Public Libraries:
- ‘Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre
- ‘Trick or Treatment' by Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh

You can borrow these for free from the Commonweal Collection:
- 'Biopiracy' by Vandana Shiva. Classmark Qx SHI or read it online for free here.
- 'Against the grain : biotechnology and the corporate takeover of your food' by Marc Lappe. Classmark Qx LAP
- The chapter 'Biotechnology, patents and the 3rd world' by Cary Fowler in the book 'Biopolitics : a feminist and ecological reader on biotechnology' edited by Vandana Shiva & Ingunn Moser. Classmark Qx SHI

The Commonweal Collection is an independant peace library based at the JB Priestley Library, University of Bradford Main Campus, BD7 1DP. It is free to join, please go to the Welcome desk at the JB Priestley Library for information.

You can borrow these from the Albert Meltzer Library at the 1in12 Club.
There will be a library collective meeting on Thursday 8th of September from 8pm, feel free to come down to look at these books/arrange to borrow them.
- 'Fast Food Nation' by Eric Schlosser
- 'Science and Liberation' by Pat Brennan

You might also want to take a look at the Corporate Watch webpages on Techonology here.

We will keep adding more to this list. Suggestions for readings can be made through the comments feature on this event listing, please feel free to contribute!

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