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12:00pm CDT

Climate Action to Transform Our World

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

We live under an economic system which pursues profit above all else, and which heavily contributes to the climate crisis. Tackling it requires us to understand and confront the roots of poverty, racial inequality, and capitalist exploitation. Climate justice offers the real possibility of huge leaps towards racial and economic equality, connecting many issues into one movement for collective liberation.

Speakers

Kylie Cheung

Kylie Cheung is the author of four books on gender and politics, including Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans with Pluto Press. Cheung’s most recent book on gender-based violence, Survivor Injustice, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She is... Read More →

Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach is a climate justice organizer, speaker, and the author of Climate Is Just the Start. She is the co-director of the AWETHU School of Organising and co-hosts the YIKES podcast.

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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Climate Justice, Intro

12:00pm CDT

Gulf to Gaza: No Sacrifice Zones

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

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BIPOC communities along the Gulf South have long been treated as sacrifice zones by corporations like Chevron and Valero who have also been instrumental in fueling genocide in Palestine. This panel will explore what it means to build solidarity in communities often overlooked and seldom seen as crucial sites of struggle.

Speakers

Chloe Torres

Chloe Torres is a lifelong Corpus Christian who has been organizing around environmental justice in the region for nearly a decade. She is a member of Corpus Christi DSA and has spoken across the state of Texas and across Europe where she has played a vital role in strengthening a... Read More →

Jenny Espino

Jenny Espino was born and raised in Corpus Christi and has been organizing in the Gulf South for nearly two decades. She is a member of Corpus Christi DSA and the Gulf South to Gaza Collective. She has spoken at conferences such as the Socialism Conference, the Southwestern Marxism... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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Climate Justice

3:00pm CDT

Beyond Climate Despair: Rebuilding a Revolutionary Left in the Face of Catastrophe

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

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For many, despair has become the only honest response to our converging climate and political catastrophes. Yet too much is at stake to settle for fatalism or any flimsy, cost-free hope. At this late date, nothing short of revolution in some form will salvage the possibility of a better world. How can our movements forge a new and durable revolutionary-left politics sustained by a radical resolve and solidarity?

Speakers

Wen Stephenson

Wen Stephenson is a veteran journalist and climate-justice activist, a correspondent for The Nation, and author of Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe (Haymarket).

Batul Hassan

Batul Hassan is the Labor Director at the Climate and Community Institute, where she works closely with member scholars and movement allies to develop policy and research that builds the case for transformative, racially-just climate action.

Anthony Rogers-Wright

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright is an international climate/environmental liberation and racial justice advocate and practitioner, a writer, and policy expert who resides in the Midwest of the United States with his family and mischievous cats “Evil” Ernie and Malachai "the Mayhem... Read More →

Ray Acheson

Ray Acheson is the Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and a member of global coalitions including the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and Stop Killer Robots. They are author of Abolishing... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
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Climate Justice