Climates of Inequality
Latinx Heritage Month
September 29, 2021
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Fall 2021 CLIMATES OF INEQUALITY Join the UIC Latino Cultural
Center for a series of online presentations this Fall with environmental and climate justice advocates from across the country and abroad. Their work reveals frameworks and solutions that utilize a justice and equity lens integrating social and economic issues to address toxic pollution and combat the climate crisis. Students in LALS 495/ ANTH 494/ MUSE 400 will facilitate a dialogue with the presenters. Writer and journalist Todd Miller will help us connect the dots between climate change, displacement, and the border industrial complex and insists that it is time that we imagine something new. Todd Miller is the author of Build Bridges, Not Walls; Empire of Borders; Storming the Wall; and Border Patrol Nation. He has published articles in places ranging from the New York Times to In These Times and resides in Tucson, Arizona. When: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 Time: 4:00-5:30PM CST Where: go.uic.edu/COI29 Auto-captions available CC Book Raffle: Storming the Wall | Build Bridges, Not Walls.
Date posted
Sep 13, 2021
Date updated
Sep 13, 2021