Event: Eco-Justice and the Churches: What is the Way Forward? (October 13, 6:00 pm)
Environmental problems affect the poor disproportionately and unjustly. Issues of water, malnutrition and hunger, agriculture, women's lives, and peace-making intersect in the work toward environmental justice. The economic and political systems that foster injustice must be countered with small steps by churches and individuals that manifest knowledge, clear-sightedness, and moral courage. The work of contemporary theologians working on eco-justice and eco-feminism will be referenced.
The presenters include: A keynote by Rev. Nancy Wright and two panelists Omar Freilla from the Green Worker Cooperatives and Annette Williams from Sustainable South Bronx
Key note speaker Rev. Nancy Wright (M.Div, M.A.) received degrees in theology and environment conservation education at Union Theological Seminary, and New York University. She coauthored with Fr. Donald Kill Ecological Healing: A Christian Vision (Orbis, 1993). She is currently pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church in South Burlington Vermont, and she is the environmental consultant to the New England consultant to the New England Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Omar Freilla, founder of the Green Worker Cooperatives, will serve as a panelist. He would like to build a new economy-one that places its greatest value on green jobs and practices. “We’ve been taught (the economy) is something that can’t be changed and is something that is beyond human intervention,” he says., “but it’s a completely human creation and it can definitely be recreated into something else.” Please visit www.greenworker.coop/website.
Annette Williams from Sustainable South Bronx will serve as a panelist. She is the director of the Bronx Environment Stewardship Training Program providing proven, effective, green-collar job training and placement services for NYC residents. Annette has over 20 years of experience as a program coordinator for community organizations, and as an activist for environmental justice. For more information please visit www.ssbx.org.
Co-sponsored by the Church and Society program and the Poverty Initiative
Tuesday, October 13, 6:00 p.m., Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary
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