SFCW at Climate One with KQED's Alexis Madrigal, Margaret Gordon, Abby Reyes
Climate One will be celebrating SF Climate Week with a series of programs featuring California and the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading voices in state and local policy, climate justice, arts and culture. The week will feature interviews, Q&As and performances that acknowledge today’s challenging political reality, while showcasing what’s doable and sparks joy in the climate community.
Thursday’s programs include:
11:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. | Alexis Madrigal, Ms. Margaret Gordon, and the Fight to Keep Coal Out of Oakland
Coal terminals don’t just pollute the air — they can devastate the health of nearby communities, fueling cases of asthma, heart disease, respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, and even death. Ms. Margaret Gordon is an environmental justice leader and a founding member of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. Her tireless work to keep coal out of Oakland and promote community health is at the heart of journalist and the co-host of KQED’s Forum, Alexis Madrigal's, new book, “The Pacific Circuit.”
Join Ms. Gordon and Madrigal for a conversation about environmental justice, urban life in the age of big tech and globalization and the power of community resilience. The event will be followed by a book signing.
11:45 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Talia Schmitt's Climate Journey
11:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Abby Reyes: Tales of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice
After Abby Reyes' partner and two other land rights advocates were murdered near Indigenous U’wa territory in Colombia in 1999, Reyes struggled to recover from her loss and pursue justice at the same time. “I walked into adulthood through the gates of these murders,” she writes in her new book “Truth Demands.” “I felt pressed up against the machinery of fossil fuel extraction, tied there by the dismal facts of murders known and unknown. These circumstances sped up my training as a human being…” — a training that ultimately led to a victory for the U’wa people.
Today, Reyes directs the Community Resilience Projects at UC Irvine, where she brings together teams of faculty, students, and community collaborators to address environmental, health, and social justice challenges.
Join Climate One Co-Host Kousha Navidar in conversation with Reyes as they explore what it takes to grow into our humanity and stand up alongside climate-vulnerable communities.
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Book Signing and Networking Reception
After the events on stage conclude, we invite you to meet Alexis Madrigal and Abby Reyes in the lobby for book signings! Madrigal will be signing copies of his book “The Pacific Circuit” and Reyes will be signing early copies of her upcoming release “Truth Demands.” Copies of both books will be available for purchase on site.
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