June 10th – #BoldAction: The Moral Call for Climate Justice

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Watch a recording of the event here.

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Tuesday, June 10th. 7-9pm.
Christ Church Cathedral,  690 Burrard Street
Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver

Tickets (free and by donation) at: boldaction.eventbrite.ca
On Facebook at: www.facebook.com/events/1397855707163546 

An evening of conversations about climate change, fossil fuel divestment and the call for moral action to stop tar sands, pipelines and environmental injustice. Featuring:

 

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Rev Lennox Yearwood gets that climate change and poverty, race and culture, democracy and corporate power, are all connected. He knows that it is a moral challenge, and he preaches the need for bold action. The Rev is a minister and community activist, and President of the Hip Hop Caucus, a national non-profit that empowers young people to participate in elections, policymaking, and systemic change. He has been an influential voice for the moral call to climate action in the United States, speaking against the Keystone XL pipeline, and in favour of green economy alternatives that create good jobs and a clean environment for future generations.

 

 

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Sean Devlin is a comedian, filmmaker, activist and Executive Director of SHD. He has been performing standup comedy since he was a teenager and has been active in the climate justice movement for 4 years. He is a direct action trainer and a thought stylist at the Yes Men’s Yes Lab for creative activism.

 

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Heather Milton-Lightening has over sixteen years of organizing experience from local issues to international campaigns. Heather was a founding member of Native Youth Movement that empowered youth politically and socially to make change in their communities, and then went on to found and build a national Native youth network that supported Native youth organizing across the US and Canada with the Indigenous Environmental Network. Heather currently is working on a contractual basis with many different organizations doing trainings, facilitating and support work for Native communities.

 

 

Coordinated by Spirited Social Change, 350, Hollyhock, the Social Change Institute, local student climate groups, and others.

Tickets (free and by donation) at: boldaction.eventbrite.ca
On Facebook at: www.facebook.com/events/1397855707163546
Download the Event Poster here.

About Christine

Christine is a community organizer, activist, and communicator. She was raised in the United Church, and did graduate studies on ‘Religious Leadership for Social Change’ in Berkeley, CA. In her other work, Chris leads strategic communications at the Columbia Institute and their Centre for Civic Governance. Chris regularly talks about feelings, practices yoga, worships food, contemplates purpose, nurtures plants, and preaches about the need to create social, political and economic systems that reflect our desire to care for one another. She actively believes that people are good.

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