[[THIS EVENT IS BEING POSTPONED — NEW DATE TBA]]

This forum is dedicated to Berta Cáceres*

Registration will open in early April.
Speakers to be announced.

This Earth Day forum will highlight social movement struggles against energy and mining corporations in the Americas. It coincides with the ‘signing’ of the Paris Climate Agreement at the UN in New York.

Local community groups, indigenous people, climate justice and workers organizations across the Americas are waging public protest and direct action campaigns against new coal, tar sands expansion, hydrofracking, large-scale hydro, agribusiness and mining projects. Recent victories against large fossil fuel interests in the US and Canada has been accompanied by a wave of violent repression in Central and Latin America, of which the recent murder of Berta Cáceres is just one example. Leaders known for their environmental activism, particularly those from indigenous communities, have been targeted and killed.

The forum aims to connect struggles across the Americas — including those in New York State — in a way that advances knowledge, builds solidarity, and inspires activism in the face of powerful corporate interests.

*Berta Cáceres, winner of the prestigious 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, was killed on March 3, 2016 for her environmental activism and recent successful struggle against the Agua Zarca hydro-dam in Honduras