Dangerous Memory
with Charlie Angus
Hosted by Joe Reilly
In Person Streaming Non-Fict History Memoir
An extraordinary read from a true Canadian original.
Join our host, Joe Reilly, for a conversation with politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus celebrating the launch of his new book Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed.
Dangerous Memory undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of the 1980s, an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continues to haunt us today.
Weaving his story within the larger narrative of the times, Angus elucidates such key events as the Chernobyl disaster, the Digital Revolution, the AIDS epidemic, the fight against South African apartheid, the rise of neoliberalism, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But the 1980s was also a time of resistance, creativity, and hope. In a world that stood on the brink of global nuclear annihilation, millions of people stepped up to save the planet and fight for human rights. As an idealistic eighteen-year-old, Charlie Angus quit school to play in a punk band and work with the homeless. Planting the seeds of change, he now challenges us to take action to confront widespread injustice and systemic inequity to create a better world.
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