Cancun Community Reportback: Climate Justice at Home, in Cancun and Beyond! Looking ahead at 2011
Cancun Community Report Back: Climate Justice at Home, in Cancun and Beyond! Looking ahead at 2011
When: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Where: Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, 1440 Broadway, Suite 301, Oakland, CA
The Climate Justice movement has continued growing throughout the US and the world, and the Bay was no exception. In the Bay area, we made strong advances to pair a strong climate justice analysis with grassroots organizing in our work leading up to Cancun. Along with MCJW, MG, and Y4CJ, local grassroots groups including PODER, CBE, APEN and MUA helped craft and organize the local teach-in and action which brought well over 150 folks out. As we close out the year with the Failed Climate Negotiations in Cancun, what is next for Climate Justice organizing in California and beyond?
As organizers and activists in the Bay Area committed to building a transformative Climate Justice movement led by front-line communities fighting together for systemic change; now is the time to reflect on the past year's organizing and vision the future. Where has the Climate Justice Movement taken us and where is it going post-Cancun? What lessons have we learned and what kind of organizing is needed in the coming year and beyond?
Logistics:
* Childcare available upon request.
* ACRJ has a shoeless office environment. Please remove shoes upon entering. Feel free to bring your own slippers if you prefer. Socks and barefeet are welcome!
Hosted by Movement Generation, Youth 4 Climate Justice (Y4CJ), Mobilization for Climate Justice-West and Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP)
*Movement Generation provides in-depth analysis and information about the global ecological crisis and facilitates strategic planning for action among leading organizers from urban Bay Area organizations working for economic and racial justice in communities of color.
*Y4CJ is a national network and vehicle for youth and youth organizers to engage in national and international organizing efforts that is informed and supports their local organizing.
*Mobilization for Climate Justice-West is an alliance of San Francisco Bay Area organizations, organizers and activists who have joined together to build a movement that emphasizes nonviolent direct action and education for effective and just solutions to the climate crisis.
*GJEP strives to identify and address the common roots to the issues of social injustice, ecological destruction and economic domination as a means to achieve a fundamental transformation toward a society based on egalitarian ideals and grounded in ecology.
For more information or to request childcare email joaquin.sanchezjr@gmail.com