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DESCRIPTION:Part of the “Community Voices to Empower Change” series\n\nIn 
 conversation with environmental justice activist Ratha Lai, author and 
 scholar Julie Sze will discuss how the immigrant and refugee communities 
 are impacted by urban and rural pollution and how communities mobilize for 
 change and justice. Topics include the Standing Rock Sioux struggle against 
 the Dakota Access Pipeline, environmental racism in Flint, Michigan and 
 California’s Central Valley.\n\nAfter the discussion, learn herbal home 
 remedies and tea-making from UC Berkeley’s Multicultural Community Center 
 Garden and Wellness Workshop!\n\nJulie Sze is Professor of American Studies 
 and Founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project at the 
 University of California, Davis. She has authored and edited two other 
 books and numerous articles on environmental justice and inequality, 
 culture and environment, and urban and community health and 
 activism.\n\nRatha Lai has worked for 10 years as an environmental justice 
 activist with the Greenlining Institute, Greenlining Action, Sierra Club 
 Bay Chapter, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Richmond Our Power 
 Coalition, and the Solidarity to Solutions Week of Action in 2018. He is 
 currently Executive Director of Critical Impact Consulting and a devoted 
 father to his 4 year old daughter.\n\nThis project was made possible with 
 support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National 
 Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.\n\nCo-presented by Oakland 
 Asian Cultural Center, Eastwind Books Multicultural Services, and UC 
 Berkeley Multicultural Community Center Garden & Wellness Committee.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/18/18830794.php
SUMMARY:Postponed:  Our Communities and Climate Change
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\n388 9th St. #290\nOakland, CA 94607
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/18/18830794.php
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