Join Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, the Indigenous Environmental Network and many others for an amazing afternoon of programming featuring leading Indigenous, frontline, and other grassroots voices fighting for climate justice from across the Americas to Indonesia.

4:00pm Climate Leadership From the Grassroots

The people most impacted by climate change and fossil fuel extraction are often some of the most creative leaders in the fight against it. From California residents working to create a just transition off fossil fuels by solarizing their neighborhoods to Indigenous peoples protecting their territories from oil extraction in the Amazon, many of the solutions to climate change come from the grassroots.

This panel will feature an Indigenous leader from Ecuadorian Amazon, a community organizer from California, and a First Nations activist from Canada speaking to their experiences defending their lands from fossil fuel development and finding innovative ways to accelerate a just transition to renewable energy.

5:00pm Following the Money: Holding Big Banks Accountable for Financing the Climate Crisis

If we’re serious about stopping climate change, we need to achieve a historic redirection of capital away from fossil fuels and towards the economy of the future. Join a panel of Indigenous, frontline and grassroots climate leaders to learn about the quickly growing international movement holding major financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase accountable for their central role in perpetuating the global climate crisis.

The most dangerous and destructive extreme fossil fuel projects, from mining operations and pipeline infrastructure to Liquefied Natural Gas terminals, require major financial support from giant banks to be built. This bold effort to cut off the spigot of billions of dollars pouring into the dirtiest of dirty energy projects is built from a broad range of people representing communities across the America’s suffering harm from impacts connected to bank financing of extreme fossil fuels.

6:00pm The Other Side of Deforestation

Our industrial agricultural system is a leading driver of deforestation and climate emissions across the world. From Indonesia to California’s Central Valley, frontline communities and agricultural workers are fighting for their basic human rights — facing land theft, toxic working conditions, exploitation, abuse and more.

Join us as we examine the impacts of industrial agriculture and what we can all do to challenge the corporations making their profits at the expense of people and planet. We will screen a short original film to share first-hand testimonials of palm oil workers, and a panel of experts from Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN), and the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) will discuss the many issues arising from our industrial agriculture model both internationally and here in our own Central Valley — from toxic working conditions, massive greenhouse gas emissions, and unrelenting deforestation.

If you’re hungry to learn more, come. And if you’re just plain hungry, come — food will be provided!

Accessibility: ADA

Our featured panelists include:

Climate Leadership From the Grassroots
Samaï Gualinga Communications coordinator of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku
Eriel Deranger Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action
Isabella Zizi Organizer with Idle No More SF Bay and Stand.Earth

Following the Money: Holding Big Banks Accountable for Financing the Climate Crisis
Joye Braun Organizer with Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Alex Conner Organizer with 350 Seattle
Cedar George-Parker Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the Tulalip Tribes Youth Leader
Manari Ushigua of Sápara Nation and Amazon Watch
Tess Geyer Senior Organizer at Rainforest Action Network
*Moderated by Ayse Gürsöz, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

The Other Side of Deforestation
Arifin “Monang” Saleh of Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)
Cesar Aguirre Jr. Community Organizer with Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN)
Lindsey Allen Executive Director for Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Senior Scientist for Pesticide Action Network (PAN)
*Moderated by Emma Rae Lierley, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)