Public Trust Doctrine for Climate Protection - Live Webinar
We are excited to have Julia Olsen, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children’s Trust join us tonight. Rolling Stone calls their climate public trust lawsuit on behalf of young people against the US Government the “trial of the millennium.” A trial date has been set for January 5–a historic moment for the climate movements which has been recently covered by NPR, Bill Moyers, Slate, and Inside Climate News. We will also be joined by Jeremy Brecher, co-founder of Labor Network for Sustainability and author of Climate Insurgency, and who has written about how the climate movements can use “public trust” to flip the script and take mass nonviolent action against criminal violations of our public trust.
Book Discount:
Buy 5 or more copies of the book, 'Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual' and get 50% off (thank you, PM Press). When you order your copies online from PM Press here (https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?..., just enter "FOPM" in the coupon code box to receive the discount.
READ-DISCUSS-ACT GUIDE TO FORM A BOOK GROUP:
350.org and Labor Network for Sustainability are circulating a free Read/Discuss/Act Guide to help you form a read-discuss-act group with friends, members of your group or community, using the book Against Doom. The Guide is HERE (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z...)
TO WATCH THE OTHER WEBINARS IN THIS SERIES:
Climate Insurgency Webinar
(Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTc8...)
An intro to Climate Insurgency strategy, weaving together many strands of climate organizing--mass nonviolent direct action, freezing fossil fuel infrastructure, public trust, and just transition--into a global strategic framework.
Just Transition Webinar
(Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/my_live_event...)
How can we organize to avoid letting our opponents pit "jobs," workers and unions against climate, water and community protection? How can we build "just transition" that includes a better future for workers who produce and use fossil fuels, construction workers who build fossil fuel infrastructure and communities that depend on them?
Co-Hosted by the Labor Network for Sustainability and 350.org