How do environmental and climate justice advocates mobilize to pursue their goals in moments when much of the political establishment is openly hostile to those ends? In this presentation I explore several cases where grassroots activists and organizations worked to create collective practices and infrastructures aimed at achieving measures of environmental and climate justice for marginalized communities, despite opposition and/or neglect from elected officials and government agencies. Finally, I consider what lessons these struggles offer for a range of social movements during the current moment of intensified state repression in the U.S.”

Dr. David Pellow is the Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Pellow’s talk is entitled "Environmental and Climate Justice Politics and Practice in Troubled Times” (abstract below, flyer attached).