Josh Willis, NASA JPL on #ClimateCrisis, Oceans Melting Greenland; Andy Zee, When Do YOU Say Enough? Plus Nora Benavidez, Press Freedom Week in LA
Josh Willis, Lead Scientist for NASA's OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland) on the Rapid Melting of Glaciers and the Consequences
 Climate change continues to accelerate, hitting the planet harder and harder. On August 2, a glacier in Greenland lost over 11,000,000,000 tons of ice in a single day. Josh Willis has spent the past weeks in the Arctic, investigating how the Greenland Ice Sheet is being attacked by record warm temperatures, and from below by warming sea water. Water released from the glacier melts on Greenland alone will raise sea levels by several meters, swamping coastal cities around the world. Josh will join us to talk about the OMG project, and what they are finding.
Andy Zee on When do YOU say enough? A Town Hall: A Time to Act
Andy Zee, Co-Initiator of Refuse Fascism, and the Get Organiz ed for an Actual Revolution Tour, joins us to talk about a town hall on Tuesday, September 17, to talk about:
Why This Is Fascism. Why We Need to Get In the Streets to Demand Trump and Pence Must Go Now! Defend those who are standing up: free the #Freeway9 and #UCLA5.
Other speakers include Steve Rohde, Chair of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace and Alan Myerson, Film and Television Director.
The event will be held
Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Echo Park United Methodist Church
1226 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, California 90026
(See flyer below)
Join the Facebook event.
Nora Benavides on LA Press Freedom Week
 Nora Benavides is director of US free expression programs at PEN America. She'll join us to talk about LA Press Freedom Week. At a time when assaults on journalists and threats to press freedom are on the rise in the United States, PEN America will participate in the first-ever LA Press Freedom Week, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Los Angeles Times from September 16-19. LA Press Freedom Week will focus on convening journalists, media advocates, and free expression stakeholders for conversations about the importance of press freedom and the First Amendment. |
