Invitation - Sept 11th Women's Assembly For Climate Justice, SF

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Join the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International on September 11th, the ‘Women's Assembly For Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions On The Frontlines Of Climate Change’ which will be held in downtown San Francisco in parallel to the Global Climate Action Submit (GCAS).

For those not in California, the event will be available livestream video on the WECAN International Facebook page.

Please RSVP here for the Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice

The ‘Women’s Assembly For Climate Justice’, will be an extraordinary gathering of policy makers, grassroots, frontline, and Indigenous women leaders, joined in solidarity to speak out against environmental and social injustice, draw attention to root causes of the climate crisis, and present the diverse array of visions and strategies with which they are working to shape a healthy and equitable world.

Event topics will include the intersectionality of gender and environment; Indigenous rights; the just transition; democracy; women and forest protection and regeneration; fossil fuel resistance efforts; women and agro-ecology/soils; environmental racism; democracy; and women’s leadership and calls for action within a climate justice framework.

Speakers to date include: 

Corrina Gould (Ohlone, Co-Founder of Sogorea Te Land Trust, Co-Founder of Indian People Organizing for Change); Pennie Opal Plant (Yaqui & undocumented Choctaw & Cherokee, Co-Founder of Idle No More SF Bay, Co-Founder of Movement Rights, and Signatory on the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty); Her Excellency President Hilda C. Heine (President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands);

Honorable Mary Robinson (President of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, former President of Ireland); Annie Leonard (Executive Director of Greenpeace USA)

;

Casey Camp Horinek (Ponca, Ponca Nation Council-Woman, WECAN Advisory Council Member);

Amy Goodman (Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!

);

 Jacqueline Patterson (Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Environmental and Climate Justice Program);

Gloria Ushigua (Sápara, President of the Association of Sápara Women, Ecuador);

Kandi Mossett (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lead Organizer on the Extreme Energy & Just Transition Campaign with the Indigenous Environmental Network);

Eriel Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Indigenous Climate Action, Canada);

Neema Namadamu (Founder of SAFECO, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Regional Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo); Michelle Cook (Diné, Human rights lawyer, Founder and Co-Director of the Divest, Invest, Protect campaign);

Antonia Juhasz (Oil and Energy Analyst, Author and Investigative Journalist): and many more remarkable presenters!

This event is free and open to the public - and will be presented Tuesday September 11th from 1:00 to 8:30 pm at The Green Room (second floor), 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, California (and online via livestream).

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Please RSVP here for the Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice

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