A series on the climate crisis and how it amplifies and intersects with other struggles.

The climate crisis is a threat multiplier, endangering our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Our response must be radical, adapting to ensure our wellbeing, while also dismantling systems of oppression that historically and currently exploit communities based on indigeneity, race, gender, ability and national origin. Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPoC) communities carry wisdom and strategies from fighting for survival against deeply rooted oppressive systems. We have so much to learn from this ancestral wisdom in facing the climate crisis.

This series will center BIPoC as students and teachers for so many reasons (we are least responsible but most impacted, we are keepers of histories and traditions that live in right relationship with the land, our people are already building the solutions, the climate movement and crisis can be isolating for us, and we need each other to get through all this). In this series, we will demistify the science behind the climate crisis, understand who and what systems are responsible, and explore how the climate intersects with different struggles that share the same roots. We will learn how the crisis amplifies injustices as well as the wisdom these struggles carry in fighting for survival and transformation. Through study and conversation, we will explore climate justice, colonization, economic justice, anti-blackness/Black Lives Matter, economic justice, gender justice, the prison industrial complex, the US military, gentrification and migration.

Class dates:
Classes will take place the following Thursdays from 6:30-8:30PM: 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27