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Climate Justice Panel Friday, September 23rd

Perspectives on Climate Justice: From D.C. to Durban

September 23, 2011
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm


Busboys & Poets
2021 14th Street NW
Washington, DC, USA

Join a dynamic discussion with local and global leaders of the climate justice movement fighting to ensure a socially and economically just world and ecologically sane future.

Communities of color and people living in poverty are disproportionately impacted by climate change across the world. Droughts have pushed parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somaliland near the point of collapse, threatening the lives and livelihoods of more than 10 million people. In the US, nearly 350 people died in unprecedented tornadoes with hundreds more affected by floods along the Mississippi River, and droughts across the South.

In November, world leaders will meet in Durban, South Africa, for a major summit on climate change. The Durban summit presents a new opportunity to make progress towards addressing the climate crisis, but communities also must work together across borders to fight climate change head-on.

Please join us for a dynamic panel discussion with delegates of the Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance North American tour and local leaders of the U.S. climate justice movement about what we as communities must do and demand of our leaders to ensure a socially and economically just world and ecologically sane future.
Panelists:

• Mithika Mwenda - Coordinator, Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance, Kenya
• Michele Maynard - Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance, South Africa
• Rev. Dr. Tolbert Jallah - Jr. Secretary General, Fellowship of Christian Councils & Churches in West Africa, Togo
• Chris Bradshaw - Founder and Executive Director, Dreaming Out Loud, Washington, DC

Moderator: Leslie Fields, Director, National Environmental Justice and Community Partnership Program of the Sierra Club and member of the Joint Center's Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change.

Co-Sponsored by ActionAid USA, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, Institute for Policy Studies, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, NAACP, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, and Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance.

Food Justice Series at Busboys and Poets

Food Justice Series 
Thursday September 22, 2011 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Busboys and Poets 14th and V 
Accokeek Foundation in Partnership with the Rural Coalition and National Immigrant Farming Initiative 
Free and Open to All - Suggested Donation $5  

Thursday, September 22, 2011 – The next installment in the popular Food Justice Series will be held at Busboys and Poets on 14th and V St, NW DC. Speakers will lead a lively discussion about building local, just food systems. We will discuss those initiatives that work to bring fresh and local foods into restaurants and communities, urban neighborhoods and institutional settings. We will also discuss those programs that work with under-served and immigrant farmers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Panelists will include Mapy Alvarez of the National Immigrant Farming Initiative speaking about their partnership with the Accokeek Foundation working on the Immigrant Farmer Incubator Program; Holly Freishtat, Food Policy Director for the Baltimore City Department of Planning; Jeremiah Lowery from Common Good City Farm, and Margaret Morgan-Hubbard as well as Christina Melendez from ECO City Farms in Edmonston, Maryland. The Food Justice Series spotlights the issues that affect food justice on a local and global scale. From the challenges to building local and just food systems to the threat that genetically-modified foods can pose to our environment and our health, this series of four open-to-all events brings together farmers, policymakers, community leaders, and advocates to cultivate insight and conversation about the pressing matters of food justice that each of them witnesses firsthand.