Divestment Conference "Convergence" Schedule this Week

Divestment Conference "Convergence" Schedule this Week

by Mark Wallace -
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Convergence Events!

FRIDAY 2.22
Speak with Your Feet: Step Toward Divestment
Sharples Patio // 12:45 PM
Swarthmore students, faculty, staff, and alumni will join together for a march through campus during the Board of Managers meetings to urge powerful and swift action on climate change through fossil fuel divestment. As over 180 students from 70 schools converge on our campus to move the divestment movement forward, it is time for Swarthmore to move beyond discussion and to take action!

SATURDAY 2.23
"Before Rachel Carson: Workers and the Origins of Environmentalism in the United States" 
Sci. 199 // 9:00 & 10:00 AM
Chad Montrie is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts--Lowell, and author of To Save the Land and the PeopleMaking a Living, and A People's History of the Environment. His talk confronts mainstream visions of environmentalism, focusing instead on working class resistance to extraction.  (Sponsored by Environmental Studies & History Dept.) 

From Divestment to Local Solidarity: Environmental Justice Organizing in Chester, PA
Sci 101 // 9:00 & 10:00 AM
Ciara Williams (Swarthmore College and Chester Green)
Desire Grover (Chester Green)
Angel Pabon (Chester Green)
Mike Ewall (Energy Justice Network)

"Resisting Fossil Fuels: Voices from the Frontlines" 
LPAC//11:10 AM - 12:30 PM 
Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Lilian Molina; Crystal Lameman, tar sands resistance, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Canada; Yudith Nieto, Keystone XL resistance, Tar Sands Blockade, TX; Junior Walk, anti-mountaintop removal activist, Coal River Mountain Watch, WV; Deirdre, anti-fracking organizer, PA; Desire Grover, media-maker and environmental justice organizer, PA; Michael Bagdes-Canning, anti-fracking organizer, Marcellus Outreach Butler, PA

Keynote: "Growing Stronger: From Divestment to Climate Justice" 
LPAC//7:30 - 9:00 PM
Crystal Lameman, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, tar sands resistance, Canada; Aura Bogado, The Nation, NY; Ellen Dorsey, Wallace Global Fund, Washington DC

Sunday 2.24
Direct Action: Sowing the Seeds of Resistance
2PM // Meet in the Amphitheater (Rain Location: Science Center Commons)
Join students from across the country, as well as activists fighting fossil fuel extraction in their communities, to sow the seeds of resistance in Parrish Hall. The movement is growing.