Name: Local Victories Reveal a Path to Ambitious Climate Equity Nationally
Start: 2018-06-23T11:00:00-0400
End: 2018-06-23T12:30:00-0400

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Local Victories Reveal a Path to Ambitious Climate Equity Nationally

Can you envision a movement that simultaneously centers racial and economic equity, tackles climate change, and fights for good union jobs? Local movements across the country are already leading the way in pushing for policies to support a just transition to a clean energy economy. By building on local victories, progressives have an opportunity to build a powerful cross-sector, multiracial movement for good jobs and climate equity.

Speakers

Colette Pichon Battle

Founder & Executive Director, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP)

Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana. As founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), she develops programming focused on equitable disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development, climate... Read More →

Johannah Cordon Hill

Jim Irby

Training and Facilitation Circle Convener, Philly Thrive

Adrien Salazar

Campaign Strategist, Dēmos

Adrien Salazar supports advancing climate change policy that centers racial and economic equity through partnerships with local, state, and national movement partners. Adrien is an organizer, political ecologist, and writer who advocates for just and regenerative visions for our economies... Read More →