Childhood Under Siege PEP Talks: Joel Bakan The 2014 PEP Talks Series, a speaker series to inspire great parents, presents Joel Bakan, author, filmmaker and professor of law at the University of British Columbia. More details Date and time March 5 2014, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Add to my calendar Location Vancouver Playhouse, 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver Contact604.708.5655 PEP Talks Event details The Vancouver International Children's Festival presents Parenting Educational Program Talks.The number of children taking dangerous psychotropic drugs has skyrocketed as pharmaceutical companies employ insidious, often illegal tactics to inflate diagnoses of disorders and convince parents their children require medication.A highly sophisticated marketing industry deploys increasingly subtle and powerful tactics to play on children's intense emotions and desires and to lure them into obsessive consumerism.Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online.America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning.And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments.Joel was born in Lansing, Michigan, he moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1970. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983) and Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984). Bakan authored The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, a book analyzing the evolution and modern-day behavior of corporations from a critical perspective..
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