 | | The 'Alternative Nobel Prize'Inaugural Gathering of Changemakers for Social and Environmental Justice
Public events May 15–17, 2018 Hosted by UC Santa Cruz Sponsored by Right Livelihood Award Foundation and
UC Santa Cruz Foundation, Kresge College Common Ground Center, Everett Program, Blum Center, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, and Division of Social Sciences Events are free and open to the public. Register below for each event. | THE RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD | | The Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’—was established in 1980 to honor and support courageous people and organizations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. In addition to presenting the annual award, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation also supports the work of its laureates, particularly those whose lives may be in danger due to the nature of their activities. | SPEAKERS | 7:30 p.m., Peace United Church
Inaugural Kamieniecki Lecture in Environmental Policy
Climate Justice: A conversation with Bill McKibben and Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Bill McKibben is a leading environmentalist. He initiated and built the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement. With 350.org at its core, this movement has mobilized political support for urgent action to mitigate the climate crisis that is already unfolding. |
| | Sheila Watt-Cloutier an outstanding advocate for the economic, social and cultural rights of the Inuit of the Arctic. She has shifted the discourse around climate change by establishing how unchecked greenhouse gas emissions violate the collective human rights of the Inuit. |
| 7 p.m., Kresge Town Hall
Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
With Maude Barlow and Robert Bilott
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the Food & Water Watch’s board. She is a global advocate for the fundamental human right to water. |
| | Robert Bilott, an environmental lawyer, achieved a significant victory in a legal battle lasting 19 years in which he represented 70,000 citizens whose drinking water had been contaminated by DuPont. Bilott successfully won compensation for his clients and continues to call for regulation of toxic substances. |
| Begins at 9:45 a.m., College Nine/Ten Multipurpose Room
Teach-In!
A day of teaching and activism for human rights, sustainability, social justice, and media reform with with North American Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award. Four 90 minute teaching sessions, plus a poster session and lunch break. Speakers: Pat Mooney, Frances Moore Lappe, Alice Tepper Marlin, Tony Clarke, Paul Walker, Jamila Raqib, Amory Lovins, Yannick Beaudoin, Wes Jackson, Maude Barlow, Robert Bilott, and Daniel Ellsberg. |
| 7:30 p.m., College Nine/Ten Multipurpose Room
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg is a former Pentagon official who followed his conscience and leaked secret information about the US government lies on the war in Vietnam—the so-called Pentagon papers. Ellsberg has ever since campaigned for peace and encouraged others to speak truth to power. He returns to UC Santa Cruz to speak about his recent book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. |
| CONFERENCE WITH NORTH AMERICAN LAUREATES | | In these tumultuous times, when safe spaces for action are shrinking for civil society all over the world, this regional conference of North American Right Livelihood Award Laureates will deepen and ground regional efforts toward a more sustainable, equitable, and peaceful world. We anticipate that the conference will be a good start to build fruitful working relationships and networks and, as a result of this, that participants can identify ways to strengthen each others’ work and lay the foundation for possible joint projects. | RIGHT LIVELIHOOD COLLEGE | Common Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz’s Kresge College is the one and only Right Livelihood College in North America, and we are honored to host the first North American Regional Conference featuring many laureates from the USA and Canada. By linking activists and academics, the Right Livelihood College highlights UC Santa Cruz's trailblazing leadership in service of people and the planet, and makes vital contributions to the intellectual life of the campus and community.
Thank you to our many supporters who made this gathering possible. | |
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