Monday, May 31, 2021

LAS COMADRES SPEAKER SERIES - JUNE

 

 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://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-disinformation-campaigns-are-targeting-state-climate-initiatives/

https://www.ejnet.org/ej/jemez.pdf

 

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