Name: Power Lines: Building a Climate-Labor Justice Movement
Start: 2025-07-03T16:30:00-0500
End: 2025-07-03T18:00:00-0500

Thursday July 3, 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDT

TBA

While corporate elites have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other, labor organizers are fighting against these divisions and organizing for green agendas aligned within material benefits to the working class. Hear from organizers and researchers building worker power alongside decarbonization at the scale and pace required.

Speakers

Lauren Bianchi

Lauren Bianchi, Chicago Teachers Union, teacher and leader of climate justice caucus.

Jeff Ordower

Jeff Ordower has been a community and labor organizer for the last 30 years all across the US. He has spent the last few years working at the intersection of climate and labor, both as a co-founder of the Green Workers Alliance and former North America Director for 350.org... Read More →

Marcie Pedraza

Marcelina Pedraza has been a union electrician for 26 years and is currently a member of UAW Local 551 at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant. She is a lifelong Chicago resident and community organizer passionate about environmental and workers’ justice, and as Board President of the Southeast... Read More →

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