Climate Equity Campaign - Speakers Tour
Climate change threatens countries across the globe with more intense storms, flooding, droughts, decreased food production, water scarcity, and disease. The world’s poorest people will bear the brunt of these impacts, even though it is the United States and other rich countries that are largely responsible for the greenhouse gas pollution that causes climate change.
Aggressive and immediate responses to climate could still help reduce the worst impacts. Given the disproportionate role that the United States has played in creating global warming, we must take the lead in addressing the problem.
ActionAid has joined together with our partners in the Climate Equity Campaign to raise awareness of the links between climate change and poverty. As part of our strategy to commit the next US President to climate equity, the Campaign is hosting a speaking tour from June 2 – 9. The tour features Nnimmo Bassey, the Executive Director of Friends of the Earth Nigeria, and Mina Susana Setra, Director of International Advocacy and Foreign Affairs for the Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), based in Indonesia.
The tour will make stops in Washington, DC, Colorado, and California. We invite you to join us at:
Washington, DC
Monday, June 2nd - 6-8pm
Happy Hour at Skewers Restaurant
Corner of 17th & and P NW, upstairs
Tuesday, June 3rd - 6-8pm
All Souls Church
1500 Harvard St. NW
co-sponsored by the Washington Peace Center
Colorado
Wednesday, June 4th - 6-8pm
Foothills Unitarian Church
1815 Yorktown Avenue
Ft. Collins, CO
Thursday, June 5th - 7-9:30pm
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St.
Denver, CO
This session will include a movie screening of Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil)
San Francisco
Friday, June 6th - 5-7pm
Grace Cathedral, Wilsey Conference Room
1100 California St.
San Francisco, CA
co-sponsored by the Grace Cathedral Stewardship of Creation Committee, the Diocese of California Commission for the Environment, and California Interfaith Power and Light
Saturday, June 7th - 3-5pm
Women's Building, Audre Lorde Room
3543 18th St. #8
San Francisco, CA
The Climate Equity Campaign is a coalition of groups including ActionAid, Center for American Progress, Friends of the Earth, Jubilee USA, Oil Change International, Oxfam America, and US Climate Action Network.
