THE CLIMATE MUSEUM PRESENTS TALKING CLIMATE: LAW, A DISCUSSION ON CLIMATE, INEQUALITY AND LAW
New York, NY (June 3, 2021) — The Climate Museum presents Talking Climate: Law, a panel discussion of climate, inequality and law on Friday, June 11 from 1-2 p.m. EST. This free, online, public education program will look at how the two defining and interlinked crises of our time—climate and inequality—have generated countless legal developments.
In Talking Climate: Law, an interdisciplinary panel will examine some of the most critical issues including recent court decisions on climate and ongoing cases like Juliana vs. the United States, climate displacement, and anti-protest laws. Like all of the Climate Museum’s programs, Talking Climate: Law aims to create ground for community-building, democratic engagement, and civic action on the climate crisis.
This panel, moderated by Climate Museum Director and former civil rights litigator Miranda Massie, will include:
Vic Barrett, plaintiff in Juliana v. The United States and Democracy Organizer at Alliance for Climate Education
Ama R. Francis, Climate Displacement Project Strategist at International Refugee Assistance Project and non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Brian Kahn, Managing Editor at Earther and lecturer at Columbia University’s MA Program in Climate and Society
The program will begin with a reading by the celebrated poet Layli Long Soldier. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided at Law. For further information, or to register visit: https://climatemuseum.org/second-fridays
About the Climate Museum
The Climate Museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. In its public programming to date, it has created an activist cultural approach to community engagement with climate, recognizing that most Americans are worried about the climate crisis but are unsure how to take meaningful action. The Museum’s free, accessible exhibitions, art installations, events, youth programs, and more have touched tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors and received extensive recognition, broadening the climate movement with an emphasis on community, justice, equity, and inclusion. Programs are presented at the museum’s exhibition hub on Governors Island, in parks, galleries, in venues citywide and, in 2020-2021, through virtual events. The Museum is currently scaling out to a permanent, year-round presence in New York City. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org.
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