The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) organized the third session of its webinar series, “BDS, Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis: Connecting the Dots,” on Wednesday, September 9, 2020.
Speakers:
Max Ajl
(researcher at Wageningen University and author of A People’s Green Deal, forthcoming from Pluto Press)
Mazin Qumsiyeh
(Palestinian scientist, author, director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History)
Kalaniopua Young
(Board member of KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance and the Ho‘opae Pono Peace Project, looking at ancestral knowledge resilience and contemporary grassroots organizing around climate change).
Watch the full video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQ0lqg9LZw
The entire video can also be watched and shared from the USACBI Facebook page.
For further reference and discussion on the topics being discussed here, please check out some of the following resources:
- SWANA Region Radio (KPFK 90.7 FM) with David Lloyd conducted an extended interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh on occupation, the environment and the situation facing Palestine today. Listen to the entire program at this link or below:
- Visit the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at the University of Bethlehem, founded and directed by Mazin Qumsiyeh, at: https://www.palestinenature.org/
- Articles by Max Ajl, including: “Clean Tech versus a People’s Green New Deal,” “‘Either you are fighting to eliminate exploitation or not’: A leftist critique of the Green New Deal” and “Beyond the Green New Deal.”
- KAHEA: The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance – http://www.kahea.org/
