Climate Justice Workshop, Tuesday October 21st

On Tuesday October 21st, activist and musician Evan Greer will be facilitating a workshop called "Connecting the Dots of Climate Justice: Community Autonomy and Sustainability." The workshop starts at 4 30pm and it will take place in the WestCo Cafe. It will be followed (after a break) by a concert in the Cafe at 9pm with Evan Greer, Broadcast Live and Crocodiles.

Below is a description of the workshop and a link to the flyer!

hope to see you there!
Connecting the Dots of Climate Justice
Workshop / Strategy Session
with Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective & Rising Tide

This popular-education workshop weaves together music, stories, guided discussion, images, and games to help groups to identify and understand the root causes of climate change and the related systems attacking our planet and our communities. With this knowledge, we will brainstorm creative responses that everyone can take part in.

Climate Change is too often framed as simply an issue of too much carbon in the atmosphere. Climate Justice is about seeing climate change as the product of hundreds of years of colonialism and other forms of injustice, and recognizing that the communities who will be most affected by climate change are the same communities who are already oppressed by this society.

Everyone has something to bring to the discussion, and we will cover topics and ideas ranging from gender liberation to community gardening. The focus will be on identifying ways to strengthen local organizing and connect with other social movements in our area.

Facilitator Evan Greer is a twenty-three year old activist, educator, and musician from Massachusetts. He tours internationally as a political songwriter and is a founding member of the Riot-Folk! Collective, a group of 9 musicians who work together to use their music to support grassroots justice organizing. Evan has spent time as a relief worker in New Orleans, a street medic at the G8 Protests in Scotland, and a youth and community organizer in Boston, where he currently lives. His deep involvement in movements for social and ecological justice gives him a unique perspective on the many ways that we can address the problems facing our planet and our communities.

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