Generations of Environmental Justice

Generations of Environmental Justice is an all-night Earth Day “teach-out” hosting a variety of presentations and workshops from individuals and organizations at the heart of the current environmental justice movement. All are invited to join, participate, and lend their own lived experience and perspective to this effort.

Action is a core focus of the night. Inspired by Project Survival, a precursor event to the original Earth Day organized by Northwestern students in January 1970, Generations of Environmental Justice will serve as a catalyst for action on dire matters of the climate crisis, with a specific focus on community-based projects that we collectively identify as moving us towards our visions of a transformed world.

Event details:
Date & Time: 5pm, April 22nd – 7am, April 23rd, 2022

Location: Alice Millar Chapel and Parkes Hall, Northwestern University

Agenda:
5:00-5:15pm: Mingling time
5:15-6:00pm: Introduction Speeches
6:00-7:00pm: Workshop session
7:00-8:00pm: Dinner and music
8:00pm-12:00am: Workshops sessions around Parkes Hall and music
12:00am: Midnight snack
12:00-5:00am: Visioning, discussion, project work time
5:00-7:00am: Sunrise send off

Workshops with Doug Kiel, Patty Loew, Nina Simons, Lyla June, Keala Uchoa, Divest McGill, Jasmine Jones, West End Garden Club, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, Melanie West, Kelli-Ann Alcott, Valerie Kahan, Ricardo Levins Morales, Robinson Markus, Leslie Shad, Georgie Nakima, Jessy Bradish, In Our Nature, Wild Roots, Cats Who Compost, Fossil Free NU, Lucy London, Jack Jordan, Zachary Brown, Eric Budzynski, Rachel Rosner, Lily Aaron, Heather Menefee, Abigail Foerstner, and Elham Hoominfar.

And music from Debbie Marie Brown, Moyana Olivia, and more!!

All are invited; come when you can, leave when you need to! Bring a notebook, a cozy blanket, and a friend, and get ready to buckle down and turn the greatest crisis of our times into an opportunity for radical transformation. Please RSVP here!