The World’s Ecological Crises & The Fight for Climate Justice
Through the Portal – International Justice Series
May 21, 2024
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM America/Chicago
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FREE & Open to the public
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Activists on the frontlines of the fight against extraction, exploitation and corporate power share their perspectives on the structural change that is required to build a climate just future as well as the experiments and practices that can demonstrate what together we can make possible in the years to come.
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Apr 30, 2024
Date updated
Apr 30, 2024
Speakers
Asad Rehman | Executive Director | War on Want
Asad Rehman is the executive director of War on Want, where he organizes to put an end to poverty and injustice. Prior, he was the head of international climate at Friends of the Earth. Rehman has over 25 years of experience in the non-government and charity sector. He has served on boards of Amnesty International UK, Friends of the Earth International, Global Justice Now, and Newham Monitoring Project.
Maureen Penjueli | Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG)
Maureen Penjueli is the coordinator for the Fiji-based Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), a regional Non-Governmental Organisation that focuses on promoting the rights of Pacific Island peoples to be self-determined. She has almost 30 years working in the not for profit sector with a primary focus on the Pacific region. Much of her work looks at the nexus of science, policy making and how they implicate the rights of indigenous peoples.
Hamza Hamouchene | Transnational Institute (TNI)
Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA).