[Platform-fossilfuels] Climate Confluence planning meeting Thursday

[Eli Beckerman]

>From Evan Greer who is working on the Northeast Climate Confluence

>
>As a group that does important work for justice in the Boston-area, we are
>excited to invite you to a meeting that will strengthen our organizing in
>Boston and begin plans for sending a contingent to the Northeast Climate
>Confluence, a critical social/environmental justice gathering happening
this
>Summer in High Falls, NY.
>
>THE DETAILS:
>
>Northeast Climate Confluence
>Boston Local Planning Meeting
>Thursday, May 29th, 7:00pm
>At the Community Church of Boston
>565 Boylston Street, Copley Square
>
>PURPOSE OF THE PLANNING MEETING:
>This meeting will bring together a wide variety of Boston-based social and
>environmental justice organizations to plan for how we can support each
>other's work, and ensure that everyone from Boston who wants to go to the
>Climate Confluence in July is able to.
>The Confluence is only as strong as the groups it empowers, and we hope
that
>your group can send a representative to the meeting to learn more about
this
>gathering, let us know what your ideas, needs, and concerns are, and how we
>can make this event useful to the important organizing that you are already
>doing locally.
>
>Please RSVP! Let us know how many people from your group can come to the
>meeting, and if there are other groups you think we should contact!
>E-mail: evan at riotfolk.org or call 978-852-6457
>
>WHAT IS THE CONFLUENCE?
>
>Confluence: a mixing of different streams or weather patterns that flow
>together and become stronger, resulting in a series of storms.
>
>The Northeast Climate Confluence is a week-long gathering of movements,
>groups, and individuals to strategize for action, strengthen our
>relationships, and share ideas and skills. The same system that wages a
>daily war on our communities is poised to destroy our very life blood: the
>earth, the water, our food, and our culture. The power to stop this
>destruction already flows through our roots, and by combining our knowledge
>and energy we will create real solutions and decrease our dependence on the
>institutions that are attacking the planet and all life.
>
>At the confluence we will slow down, take the time to learn from each
other,
>and prepare for the action that we all know we must take. The confluence is
>not the end-goal of our organizing, it is the beginning. It is calm before
>the storms.
>
>Climate Change is about more than just carbon in the atmosphere. It
directly
>affects people's lives. The communities hardest hit by climate disasters
are
>already the most impacted by the injustice that causes environmental
>devastation: indigenous people, women, LGBTQ folk, people of color, youth,
>elders, people with disabilities, and the working class.
>
>People of all ages and backgrounds will have something to offer to the
>confluence! Young people will play a particularly important role during the
>Youth Track, a set of workshops organized by and for youth to empower them
>to make positive change in their communities and the world. Childcare for
>younger children will also be provided and parents are encouraged to come.
>
>There will be workshops, performances, trainings and strategy sessions
about
>the issues affecting our communities and our planet from prisons and police
>brutality to food sovereignty, healthcare, and disaster relief. Together we
>will plan a day of direct action in coordination with similar gatherings
>around the world.
>
>More information is available at www.climateconfluence.org, please get in
>touch and we can send you materials for outreach, literature about the
Youth
>Track, and more!