<div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail-m_5261180214621142631gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><b><font size="4">"Can Climate Justice Co-Exist with US Empire?"</font><br></b></div></span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">A panel discussion about who should control land, water, air, and movement in the midst of the climate crisis.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Wednesday, September 25, 12:30 in the UC Theater. </div><div>Family friendly (kid activities available)<br></div><span class="gmail-m_5261180214621142631gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div>Co-sponsored by the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club and UM Climate Action Collective</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/383099265702733/">https://www.facebook.com/events/383099265702733/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_5261180214621142631gmail-docs-internal-guid-1aa70066-7fff-ff4c-e4ed-d0c206b6f579"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As communities in the US and around the world struggle to manage the direct impacts of fossil fuel extraction and extreme weather events, US industries and the US military continue to emit a large proportion of the world’s greenhouse gases. The US government also continues to exert an enormous amount of control over land, water, air, industry, and the movement of people on a global level.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What’s the link between immigration justice, climate justice, and fighting threats to indigenous sovereignty? How should we think about the relationship between US imperialism and climate chaos? How should we respond to the increasing wave of climate migrants aiming to move to the US? Does the US military have a role to play in solving the climate crisis, given that US intervention has become one of the largest global drivers of greenhouse gas emissions? How do we respond to the ongoing crisis of murdered and missing indigenous people, especially given the increase of violence related to resource extraction on indigenous land?</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are some local interventions that can strengthen the common cause between climate justice, immigration justice, and indigenous justice?</span></span><br></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">We will be discussing the relationship between US empire, local grassroots efforts for immigrant justice, indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and climate change with a panel of local community organizers and activists, including:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_5261180214621142631gmail-docs-internal-guid-e379e5e0-7fff-847b-531c-2812110bce27"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">George Price </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Member of Indian People’s Action and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Climate Change Advisory Committee, retired lecturer of African American Studies and Native American Studies)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Claire Charlo</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Civil Advocate for the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, Member of Idle No More)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Laura Folkwein</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Chair of Montanans for Immigrant Justice, Associate Pastor at United Church of Christ)</span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sesar Bonilla </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Employment and Training Specialist at Rural Employment Opportunities)</span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div>Contact <a href="mailto:capiserchia@gmail.com" target="_blank">capiserchia@gmail.com</a> for more information.</div></div>