LAS COMADRES SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS
Elizabeth Yeampierre on Environmental / Climate Justice
Wednesday, June 30 * 4pm PT/ 5pm MT/ 6pm CT/ 7pm ET & Puerto Rico
“Confronting climate change will mean changing
society.” –
Elizabeth Yeampierre
Climate change is a crisis of injustice, to both people and the planet. Climate justice encompasses not only environmental or physical changes in nature, but also ethical and political issues. Solutions exist and Grassroots Activists are being heard. Our speaker has been recognized as a Climate Warrior and one of the World’s Most Influential People in Climate Policy -- Elizabeth Yeampierre.
JOIN US on Wednesday, June 30, for an
interactive and enlightening presentation.
Check your time zone: 4pm PT; 5pm MT; 6pm CT; 7pm ET & Puerto Rico.
Registration is required. Once you’ve registered you will receive the zoom link.
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqceGspzMiHdDJ0K2LNnQov0OCDPA-vetE
BIO: Elizabeth Yeampierre is Executive Director of UPROSE and Co-Chair
of the national Climate Justice Alliance. She is a long-time advocate and trailblazer for
community organizing around just, sustainable development, environmental
justice, and community-led climate adaptation and community resiliency in
Sunset Park, NY. Ms. Yeampierre has been a featured speaker at local,
national, and international forums, including Sage Paris 2015, 2016 GRI
Amsterdam, White House Forum on Environmental Justice, Yale, Harvard, Cooper
Union, Columbia, and universities, colleges, and conferences all over the
country and spoke at the opening climate rally for Pope Francis at the National
Mall, The Battle for Paradise at Cooper Union with Naomi Klein. Her work is
featured in several books, in addition, being featured in Latina Magazine, VOGUE,
Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Grist, American Prospect, Al Jazeera, Huffington
Post, Democracy Now, The Intercept, and a variety of media outlets throughout
the United States, Latin America, and Europe. In 2014, Ms. Yeampierre was part
of the People’s Climate March Mobilization leadership – a march of over 400,000
people across New York City. She played a major role in ensuring the frontline
was made up of young people of color and successfully proposed adopting the
Jemez principles for democratic organizing, which have since become the roadmap
to building just relationships in the climate justice movement. Elizabeth was
featured in the NY Times as a visionary paving the path to Climate Justice. In
2018, she was awarded Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200. In 2020, she
was named by Apolitical as Climate 100: The World’s Most Influential People in
Climate Policy, and spoke at Oxford
University, and the Ethos Conference in Brazil. In 2021, Elizabeth appeared in
numerous news outlets such as Rolling Stone and Self Magazine and appeared on
national panels for The Business Insider. Learn more about Elizabeth and
UPROSE at www.uprose.org.
Here are some articles on Climate Justice for your perusal:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-change
https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/17/22236287/brooklyn-wind-turbine-assembly-hub
https://www.ejnet.org/ej/jemez.pdf
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