The Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center is excited to partner with Sustainable Walnut Creek this year to host EARTH DAY at Civic Park on SATURDAY, APRIL 22ND! There will be live music, art activities for youth, and exhibitor booths from over 15 local grassroots community groups working around climate justice! This is a great opportunity to learn more local actions and meet other likeminded activists focused on climate change. For program schedule + more information, please visit their website
In addition to this program on Saturday, we will also be co-hosting a climate justice film screening of The Ants & the Grasshopper at the Walnut Creek Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, April 23rd @ 12PM.
Film Information: Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth
Recommended Reading:
- The Bombing of Nord Stream — This Act of War Against Europe Requires Congressional Investigation
- “President Biden’s own statements predicting the end of Nord Stream , preliminary to the devastating attack on its infrastructure, point to the necessity of determining whether or not the president was speaking from his singularly informed position of the Chief Executive, as Hersh indicated”
- 5 Reasons Why Much Of Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting The West In Ukraine – OpEd
- SCOTT RITTER: The Future of US Nuclear Strategy
- “The fallout from Washington’s policy of seeking Russia’s strategic defeat has seen Moscow radically alter its arms control position. That raises important questions about the winner of the next U.S. presidential election”
- Chris Hedges: Reclaiming Our Country
- “It is one of the great ironies that the corporate state needs the abilities of the educated, intellectuals and artists to maintain power, yet the moment any begin to think independently they are silenced”