Join the Climate Museum next Monday, July 13 from 2:30-4pm for a conversation about the interwoven crises of climate change and racist violence and inequality. In this time of deep trauma and reckoning, we also encounter the promise of the Black Lives Matter protests, the largest movement in US history. This ongoing movement is raising the prospect of systemic change, including climate justice, just as youth climate activists have pushed climate justice to the center of mainstream political discourse. These shifts culminate struggle over centuries and decades, respectively, in the streets, the courts, and everyday life. They represent qualitatively new possibilities for justice, clarity, and connection.
Climate Museum Trustee Maxine Burkett of the Institute for Climate and Peace will moderate a remarkable panel including Ana Maria Archila of the Center for Popular Democracy, Jerome Foster of the White House Climate Strike, Kate Marvel of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
With a special reading by Whiting Award Winner Aracelis Girmay of her poem You Are Who I Love.
