Date & Room Location:
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Room assignment: Classroom 1
Throughout the USA thousands of people of color and poor people live with the constant threat of homelessness, damage to, and loss of, their possessions and means of livelihoods, and risks of injury and death due to weather-related natural disasters - drought, flooding, landslides, oil spills, soil erosion and desertification.
This interactive session will provide useful information to help participants better understand the subject of climate change. By the end of this session, participants will have explored the injustice of climate change and will be able to account for its causes and impacts. We will present lots of ideas to help participants effect change in their own lives and communicate the need for change to others.
This workshop builds on the research described in the Congressional Black Caucus report, Unequal Burden, that describes the natural disaster-prone communities in the USA and aims to increase the resilience of the men, women and children in these vulnerable communities to cope with, and adapt to, the impacts of climate-induced hazards. The workshop brings together issues of poverty, racism, environmental justice, local food systems, disaster risk education and climate change. Growing your own food is a means to re-localize economies, combat corporate control of agriculture, and build community from the ground up. This workshop will connect urban agriculture and home gardening with movements for climate justice, and will leave you with tools to build greater awareness and climate justice movement through hyper-local organizing around a sustainable local food system.
Click here for Jim Embry's Bio, Obiora Embry's Bio & Ceci Charles-King's Bio.
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