We invite you to attend a book reading from The End of This World with co-author Angele Alook.

The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism and the labour movement, the authors of The End of this World: Climate Justice in So-called Canada show that a ‘just transition’ from fossil fuels cannot succeed without the dismantling of settler capitalism in Canada. Their vision is decolonial, liberatory, and transformative.

Angele Alook has extensively researched Indigenous participation in the labour force of the oil and gas industry in Alberta, and looked at the gendered impacts of this work. She has also researched how members of Bigstone Cree Nation are keeping land-based economies and knowledge alive even as resource industries severely encroach on their territories. The End of This World promises that the next world is within reach and worth fighting for.

Join us and receive a copy of the “Canada, Stop Arming Saudi Arabia” Zine by Sonali Menezes made in collaboration with Labour Against the Arms Trade and the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War.

Refreshments served! All Mayworks Festival events are free.

Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts is a community-based festival which annually presents new works by a diverse and broad range of artists, who are both workers and activists. Our programming presents bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour.