Our Season Finale comes to you live from NYC Climate Week.
It was an unforgettable afternoon honoring and elevating the power of expression, unity, and civil disobedience in the Environmental Justice movement.
This episode features powerful stories from activists and organizers who have taken bold stands against environmental injustices that threaten their communities and our shared future.
Guests
Thalia Cachimuel, Director of Philanthropic Networks, NDN Collective
Kizzy Charles-Guzman, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Environmental Health
Chris Tandanzo, Poet and Former New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance organizer
Story Salon Host
Michael McKenzie, Counterstream's Executive Director
Key Topics
- Does our current democracy function enough for us to protect it?
- Dissent is a sacred act for historically excluded communities.
- It also means “We are going to give you hell.”
- The importance of storytelling and reclaiming narratives to drive social and environmental change.
- The fight to free Leonard Peltier as a story of truth and reconciliation.
- How environmental justice advocates are the embodiment of dreams.
- The power of Gen-Z.
- The interconnectedness of environmental justice work and the movement to end the genocide in Gaza.
Additional resources
- See images and more from the Season of Dissent Story Salon
- NDN’s #FREELEONARDPELTIER Toolkit
- The urgent need for federal policy on ‘forever’ chemicals, by Kizzy Charles-Guzman
- Revisit some of other Story Salons:
Tune in and listen wherever you get your podcasts — because the fight for environmental justice is also a fight for democracy itself.
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Credits
People over Plastic is a project of Counterstream Media
Hosted and Executive Produced by Shilpi Chhotray
Produced by Mindy Ramaker
Engineered by Dennis Maxwell
Project manager is Vincent Ford
Artwork designed by Ly Ngo Heisig