Wednesday, September 4 at 6 p.m. Fresno Center for Nonviolence Board meeting. For more information call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Wednesday, September 11th 3 – 3:30 p.m.on KFCF 88.1 The Center’s monthly radio show will be hosted by Angela Price. Her guest will be Bill McKibben, award winning journalist, author and environmental activist. This show will be pre-recorded so no call-ins this month. For more information call 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Wednesday, September 11th at 12 noon and at 7 p.m. (potluck at 6:30) at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness (SE corner of McKinley and Van Ness). Our 2nd Wednesday film will be “Do the Math“. This fast paced and inspiring film is based on a Rolling Stone article by Bill McKibben last year and a multi-city tour that he took over the last few months. The basic message of the film is that we only need to understand three numbers to know why action is required to address climate change: 2, 565 and 2,795. One campaign action has over 300 college campuses demanding divestment of funds from fossil fuel companies, and similar campaigns in many municipalities and states, which hold billions in pension funds. A key struggle right now is the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, which will increase the amount of tar sands oil mined from the wilderness of Canada-exactly the wrong direction to take. The movement to address climate change will only be able to build a coalition broad enough to change government policy if it explicitly unites with unions, with the cause of the unemployed, with struggles for environmental justice and against environmental racism. Watch the film, read the article, do the math, sign up for the struggle, and link it to the struggles you are already involved in. Our common future depends on it.
Come and learn these new numbers and how important it is for us to understand them. This video is 45 minutes long. Wheelchair accessible. Free to the public. Call the Center at 559-237-3223 for more information Mon-Fri11-3 559-237-3223.
Saturday, September 14 at 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30) in the Auditorium of the Old Administration Building, Fresno City College Bill McKibben speaks in Fresno.
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with “The End of Nature” in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him “the planet’s best green journalist,” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.” Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. Bill McKibben’s latest book “Oil and Honey” will be available to purchase at the event. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call the Fresno Center for Nonviolence Mon-Fri 11-3 at 559-237-3223 or email Angela Price at angela.price41@comcast.net.
This talk is sponsored by the Fresno Center for Nonviolence and as part of the Beth Ann Harnish Memorial Lecture Series. Co-sponsors include the Social Sciences Division of Fresno City College, Unitarian Universalist Church, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace Fresno, Sierra Club Tehipite Chapter and many others.
