Climates of Inequality - September 2020

VirtualZona AbiertaPresentations: Zona Abierta: Latinx Womxn Leaders Across Movements Series[Live Events]Open to the publicPresented by the UIC Latino Cultural Center and Women's Leadership and Resource Center Join us in celebrating Latinx Womxn Leaders Across Social and Environmental Movements as each presenter shares their experiences and leadership on topics of: labor and worker's rights, immigrant rights, environmental and climate justice, and building transgender & queer Latinx power. Through an intersectional lens, these presenters reveal the complexity and specificity of Latinx Womxn from a spectrum of identities and action-based agendas.

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Join us for a series of online conversations with environmental and climate justice leaders this fall.

Speakers will highlight how front-line communities in the Chicago region impacted by environmental pollution and climate change and more recently COVID-19 are demanding justice and putting forward a vision to create healthier and safer communities. Students in LALS 495/ ANTH 494/ MUSE 400 will facilitate the conversations.Wed. Sep. 16, 2020 | 4:30-5:30PM CST<ul><li>Edith Tovar and Juliana Pino Alcaraz with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO). On LVEJO’s #LaVillitaRespira Campaign in response to the Crawford Plant demolition and future construction of a distribution center by Hilco Co.</li></ul>Wed. Sep. 30, 2020 | 4:30-5:30PM CST<ul><li>Dr. Antonio Lopez, ECJ Scholar &amp; Activist. On current efforts of EJ organizations to protect their communities, and shared lessons of power and environmental racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.</li></ul>

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