Climates of Inequality with Alianza Americas
October 14, 2020
Join the UIC Latino Cultural Center for a series of online conversations with environmental and climate justice leaders this fall. Speakers will highlight how front-line communities in the Chicago region, impacted by environmental pollution and climate change and more recently COVID-19, are demanding justice and putting forward a vision to create healthier and safer communities.
- Oscar Chacón with Alianza Americas. On the continuing intersection of structural environmental degradation in the corridor involving southern Mexico and Central American countries, now compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climates of Inequality series is cosponsored by the UIC Department of Anthropology, Latin@s Gaining Access to Networks for Advancement in Science (L@s GANAS) Program, Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) Program, Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services (LARES) Program, Museums and Exhibition Studies (MUSE) Program, and the School of Art & Art History.
UIC student organization cosponsors for October: Alpha Psi Lambda Zeta Chapter, Hope for the Day, Latinx Graduate Student Association (LGSA), Roosevelt Network, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Union for Puerto Rican Students (UPRS).
UP NEXT: Wed. Oct. 28, 2020 | 4:30-5:30PM CST
Date posted
Sep 22, 2020
Date updated
Oct 1, 2020