Wednesday, May 26th
6:30-8:30pm
522 Valencia St. (Btw 16th St. and 17th St.)
San Francisco, CA

Between April 19-22 approximately 33,000 people representing social movements from all over the world converged in Cochabamba, Bolivia for The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Convoked by Bolivian President Evo Morales, the conference put forward a People’s Agreement and a proposal for a Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth in response to the deeply flawed Copenhagen Climate Change Accord recently forged at the COP Summit in December. Arguing that the proposals put forward in this accord “have led us to discuss climate change as a problem limited to the rise in temperature without questioning the cause, which is the capitalist system,” the People’s Agreement has become a new galvanizing point for the international climate justice movement. 

Please join the Center for Political Education for a panel report-back and organizing strategy session with activists who attended the conference.  We will be joined by Alberto Saldamando with the International Indian Treaty Council, Colin Rajah with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Jason Negron-Gonzales with Movement Generation, and Evelyn Rangel-Medina with the Ella Baker Center, amongst others. 

Following the report-back, we will have an organizing session to discuss and plan next steps after the conference and leading into the Mexico Climate Summit in November.  Bring your questions, ideas, and inspirations for moving the climate justice movement forward!

$5-$10 Donation Requested.  No one turned away for lack of funds. 522 Valencia St. is not wheelchair accessible.