CERI Climate Cafes 2025

Virtual

Climate Cafes are physical or virtual spaces for community members to share experiences and feelings related to this polycrisis. We may be meeting on campus, in an actual cafe, a park, a conference room, a workspace, or really any gathering space that people choose to come together.

Nuclear Energy Information Service: A Night with the Experts

Virtual

As the granddaughter of a Manhattan Project scientist, Emily Strasser spent a decade researching the toxic legacies of nuclear weapons production in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Manhattan Project operated under a strict security policy of compartmentalization, which served to limit worker knowledge and to suppress dissent. This also established a culture of secrecy in sites of weapons production.

FGC Online Gathering: A Spring Whose Waters Never Fail

Virtual

Come join Friends this winter for an inclusive, joyful, enlivening Online Gathering! Our theme is “A Spring Whose Waters Never Fail,” and the Online Gathering will be held on Zoom from February 1-9, 2025! The Online Gathering offers a wide variety of programs and events throughout the week, including workshops, daily worship, speakers, Bible Half Hour and more. Our plenary speakers are Friends from around the world, who will bring grounding, connection, and new perspectives in these changing times.

Antisemitism & the Climate Crisis: A Gen Z Discussion Space

Virtual

JYCM is running recurring discussion gathering spaces for Jewish members of Gen Z from across the country to grapple with antisemitism in the world and in their lives, and how this antisemitism interfaces with their acute sense of climate anxiety and other emotions. All gatherings focus on balancing grief, healing, emotional resilience practices, and organizing strategies. Please register ahead of time.

Implementing the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Virtual

We are honored to offer this webinar featuring Professor Kristen A. Carpenter, co-director of The Implementation Project. Professor Carpenter is the Council Tree Professor of Law and Director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. She was appointed to the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as its member from North America from 2017-2021. During the Biden administration, she was an advisor to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on international legal issues affecting Indigenous Peoples.

What Are We Fighting For?

Virtual

Poets for Palestine is partnering with Mx. Yaffa to host a series of events, diving into utopic thinking, writing as resistance, intersectionality, and community building. How do we move towards utopia? How do we leverage our art to achieve collective liberation?