Frontline Community Leaders: Climate and Just Recovery

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When:
September 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2020-09-30T17:00:00-07:00
2020-09-30T19:00:00-07:00
Where:
ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'

Hear leaders on the frontlines of historic and ongoing climate disasters who are building a Just Recovery on the ground.  At  Stronger than Storms: Climate & Just Recovery Forum, hosted by 350.org, you will hear:

  • Jasilyn Charger24-year old Indigenous Environmental Protector
  • Verónica NoriegaMentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción, a non-profit organization organizing young people into social initiatives in Puerto Rico
  • Cesar AguirreCentral California Environmental Justice Alliance
  • Xiye Bastida, Re-Earth Initiative, NYC youth climate activist, raised in Mexico as part of the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous Peoples  
  • Troy RobertsonGulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), Regional Organizer from New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), President
  • Moderator: Amira Odeh350.org, Carribean and Florida Organizer from Puerto Rico.

This event commemorates the anniversaries of ongoing climate devastation: 15 years since Hurricane Katrina, 2 years since Paradise burned, 3 years since Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma, 8 years since Superstorm Sandy, millions displaced from homes exercising the right to migrate as dangerous authoritarianism reveals its ugly face. The costs of climate destruction are paid for through the lives and livelihoods of BIPOC, immigrants, and workers.

Fossil fuel executives cashed out our planet. We’re coming together to make polluters pay and demand a Just Recovery led by those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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he same fossil fuel companies that have doubled the number of billion-dollar climate disasters and lied about climate change, are the same ones: pillaging ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples without free prior and informed consent… continuously putting workers, our communities, and our planet in harm’s way… bankrolling militarized police and security… profiting off voter suppression… even backing anti-protest legislationattempting to criminalize our rights to protect our communities… 

This comes as we commemorate anniversaries of ongoing climate devastation: 15 years since Hurricane Katrina, 2 years since Paradise burned, 3 years since Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma, 8 years since Superstorm Sandy, millions displaced from homes exercising the right to migrate as dangerous authoritarianism reveals its ugly face. The costs of climate destruction are paid for through the lives and livelihoods of BIPOC, immigrants, and workers.

Fossil fuel executives cashed out our planet. We’re coming together to make polluters pay and demand a Just Recovery led by those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

350.org is working with communities across the country and around the world to build a Just Recovery. This includes demanding no fossil fuel bail-outs, and resources be immediately and directly redistributed toward community relief, mutual aid, public power, and community-determined solutions for long-term health and a regenerative economy.

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For more information on the Sept 30th Climate Forum, explore this media pack.

To view this advisory online, visit: https://350.org/press-release/sept-30-stronger-than-storms-advisory/

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