Join the UBC Centre for Climate Justice (CCJ) and Climate and Community Project (CC P) to discuss the connection between the climate crisis and the ongoing gen ocide in Palestine. Batul Hassan\, Patrick Bigger\, and Rafi Arefin will bu ild off CCP's new report "Ceasefire now\, ceasefire forever: No climate jus tice without Palestinian freedom and self-determination" to explore the und erlying causes of these intersecting crises and demonstrate how conflict\, the climate crisis\, fascism\, and extractive economies are all playing a r ole in today's current events.
For additional context on these topics\, check out The Guardian's cov erage of CCP's report!
Batul Hassan (she/her) is the policy manager at Climate and Community Project\, where she focuses on health\, care\, and education research that supports transformative climate policy that benefits the mul tiracial working class. She has a background in public health\, migration\, and labor organizing.
Dr. Patrick Bigger is the Res earch Director at the Climate and Community Project. His eclectic scholarly and policy research contends with a range of environmental and political c hallenges\, from the US Military's role in the climate crisis to the failur es of market mechanisms to slow biodiversity loss. His work at the intersec tion of militarism and the climate crisis won the 2018 Virginie Mamadouh Ou tstanding Research in Political Geography Award.
Mohammed Raf i Arefin is an Executive Committee member of the UBC Centre for Cl imate Justice and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Drawing on urban political ecology and env ironmental justice\, science and technology studies\, and discard studies\, his research and teaching are focused on urban environmental politics with a specific focus on waste and sanitation.
A huge thanks to our event co-sponsors: Middle Eastern Studies\, UBC Social Just ice Centre\, Department of Geography\, Department of Anthropology
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