BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18817410 SEQUENCE:18960687 CREATED:20180910T040500Z DESCRIPTION:Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change\n\nDATE AND TIME: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 @ 1:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT\n\nWHERE: The Green Room (2nd floor), San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102\n\nRSVP @ Eventbrite: \n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-assembly-for-climate-justice-women-leading-solutions-on-the-frontlines-of-climate-change-tickets-46867064652\n\n‘Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change’, will be an extraordinary gathering of women leaders from across the United States and around the world, 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.\n\nInternational advocates, grassroots, Indigenous, and frontline women leaders, and policy-makers, will discuss topics including the intersectionality of gender and environment; Indigenous rights; a just transition to renewable energy; women and forest protection and regeneration; fossil fuel resistance efforts; women and agro-ecology/soils; environmental racism; and women’s leadership and calls for action within a climate justice framework.\n\nThis dynamic public Forum, organized by the Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, is to be presented the day before the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in California. A list of collective key Calls to Action from the Women's Assembly for Climate Justice will be presented to the leadership of the GCAS the following day.\n\nThis event is free, and is open to the public. RSVP encouraged but not required.\n\nThis dynamic public Forum is to be presented the day before the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in California. A list of key calls to action from the WECAN Forum will be presented to the leadership of the GCAS the following day. \n\nFEATURING: \n\nCorrina Gould - (Ohlone) Spokesperson Confederated Villages of Lisjan, Co-Founder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust, and Co-Founder of Indian People Organizing for Change\n\nPennie 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\n\nHer Excellency President Hilda C. Heine - President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands\n\nHonorable Mary Robinson - President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, former President of Ireland\n\nPresident Mirian Cisneros - (Kichwa) President of the Pueblo of Sarayaku, Ecuador\n\nAnnie Leonard - Executive Director of Greenpeace USA\n\nCasey Camp Horinek - (Ponca) Ponca Nation Council-Woman, and WECAN International Advisory Council Member\n\nAmy Goodman ​- Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!\n\nJacqueline Patterson - Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Environmental and Climate Justice Program\n\nKandi White - (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara) Lead Organizer on the Extreme Energy & Just Transition Campaign with the Indigenous Environmental Network\n\nEriel Deranger - (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Executive Director and Co-Founder of Indigenous Climate Action, Canada\n\nNina Gualinga - (Kichwa) Leader from the Pueblo of Sarayaku, Ecuador\n\nMichelle Cook - (Diné) Human rights lawyer, and Founder and Co-Director of the Divest, Invest, Protect campaign\n\nNeema Namadamu - Founder of SAFECO/Hero Women Rising, and Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Regional Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo\n\nAntonia Juhasz - Energy author, investigative journalist and analyst, specializing in oil\n\nWanda Culp - (Tlingit) Artist and forest defender, and Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Regional Coordinator in the Tongass, Alaska\n\nValéria Paye Pereira - (Tiriyó and Kaxuyana) Member of Executive Coordination for APIB (Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil) in Brasília/DF\n\nDr. Gail Myers - Agri-Cultural Anthropologist, Co-Founder of Farms to Grow, Inc., and co-initiator of the Freedom Farmers Market in Oakland, California\n\nMiriam Nobre - Representative of World March of Women in Brazil, and member of the technical team of SOF (Sempreviva Organziação Feminista)\n\nLeila Salazar-López - Executive Director of Amazon Watch\n\nBridget Burns - Co-Director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)\n\nShannon Biggs - Co-Founder of Movement Rights\n\nElizabeth Kaiser - Regenerative farmer, Owner/Operator of Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol, California\n\nDoria Robinson - Executive Director of Urban Tilth, Representative of the Climate Justice Alliance\n\nAmira Diamond - Co-Director of the Women's Earth Alliance (WEA)\n\nCrystal Huang - Coordinator of Energy Democracy National Tour and Founder of CrossPollinators\n\nMorissa Zuckerman - Representative with Sunrise Movement\n\nKarina Gonzalez - Women Speak Program Coordinator for the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network\n\nEmily Arasim - Communications Coordinator for the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network\n\nOsprey Orielle Lake - Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network\n\nABOUT WECAN INTERNALTIONAL\n\nThe Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is a climate justice-based initiative established to unite women worldwide as powerful stakeholders in sustainability solutions, policy advocacy, and worldwide movement building for social and ecologic justice.\n\nWECAN International engages women grassroots activists, Indigenous and business leaders, scientists, policy makers, farmers, academics and culture-shapers in collaboration with the goal of stopping the escalation of climate change and environmental and community degradation, while accelerating the implementation of just climate solutions through women’s empowerment, advocacy at international policy forums, trainings, on-the-ground projects, advocacy campaigns, and political, economic, social and environmental action.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/09/18817410.php SUMMARY:Women's Assembly for Climate Justice: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate LOCATION:The Green Room (2nd floor), San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/09/18817410.php DTSTART:20180911T200000Z DTEND:20180912T030000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR