Los Angeles-Join a lively conversation with environmental justice leaders from Southern California as they discuss how their communities mobilize storytelling for change and to save lives. The daylong symposium includes the following speakers, as well as a screening and discussion of the documentary, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (2021). Spanish/English interpreters will be available throughout the day.
This symposium is aligned with Climates of Inequality, a week-long pop-up exhibition featuring stories of environmental justice from the US, Mexico, and Colombia. Interactive displays bring you to the frontlines of community organizing in twenty-two localities, where the majority of residents are immigrants, low-income, Native American, and people of color. Though they have contributed the least to the climate crisis, these communities bear its most immediate and heaviest burdens. Yet in the face of this, communities have innovated creative strategies to resist and seek change, from coalition building and other solidarity movements to greening and restoring sites of significance.
FREE, but registration required
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Where: Japanese American National Museum | 100 North Central Avenue | Los Angeles, CA 90012
Learn more and register here.
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.
