an update from the compas in the Bronx!
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Julien Terrell <jterrell@ympj.org> Ok So here's my third attempt to send photos. Let me know if you can open them. The photos are of Shanay Sneed, who is in her sophmore year or collage and is coordinating the EJ youth organizing campaign and myself. The second photo is of Mychal Johnson , who some of you may have met in Cochabamba, who spoke about how the Rights of Mother Earth discussion is relevant to folks in NYC's EJ communities.
We had 40 people come out in the cold ( 20 degrees) and participate in the gathering we did in Ralph Bunch Park which is directly across the street from the UN headquarters. Our speakers included Shanay who spoke about the important of involving and creating space for youth to lead in the climate justice movement, Ana Maria Quispe who spoke about the connection between food and climate change and Mychal.
We had videos and pictures that you all have been sending streaming of the wall behind our action as well in Bluestockings bookstore , a leftist book store that we've held a couple climate justice conversations since getting back from Cochabamba. We used some of the chants that GGJ delegation on the caravan sent over a couple days before that really helped. It was pretty cold so the chants were great energizers.
We also did a presentation for a group of 30 faith leaders this morning about the connection between climate justice, faith and the role of youth in addressing the crisis which turned out well.
"Putting at the people's disposal the intellectual and technical capital snatched from the colonial universities."