Climate Action Week: On the Rise: Global and Local Front-line Communities and the Climate Crisis

The forum will include a moderated conversation among several Global Climate Ambassadors and local activists, an audience Q&A session, and opportunities for participants to identify common causes among local NYC communities, and similar communities around the globe.

Speakers Include:

Welcome from The New School -- Alan McGowan, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Science in the Environmental Studies Program

Juan Pedro Change (Peru)

Martin Mullally (Argentina)

Vaishali Patil (India)

Isso Nihmei (Pacific Islands)

Goksen Sahin (Turkey)

Front Line Activists:

Thanu Yakupitiyage, New York Immigration Coalition

Raul Ayala, Ropavejeros

Bakary Tandia, African Services Committee

Diane Mejia, Wind of the Spirit

Ray Figueroa, Friends of Brook Park & NY Community Garden Coalition

Faron McLurkin, Center for Third World Organizing

Co-Sponsors include:
Alliance for a Just Rebuilding
Good Old Lower East Side / GOLES
North West Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition / NWBCCC
Mothers on the Move / MOM
Center for Third World Organizing / CTWO
NYC-EJA
ALIGN
African Services Committee
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants' Rights
Ironbound Community Corporation
Centro Comunitario CEUS
ROC-United
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island
Arab American Association of NY
Make the Road NY
New York Immigration Coalition
Unite HERE Local 100
Raul Ayala, Ropavejeros
UPROSE

Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street