11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Online (Zoom)

During this virtual event, global women leaders will spotlight a Just Transition and economic models, solutions, and frameworks based on community-led solutions, feminist economics, Indigenous knowledge, beyond growth economies, and ancient concepts of reciprocity with the Earth and the web of life. The event discussion will focus on the growing emergence of socially just, place-based, and ecologically enhancing economic models that provide a clear blueprint for a thriving future for all.

4:45 PM - 8:00 PM EST

UN Church Center

777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017

During this in-person forum hosted by WECAN, women leaders in all their diversity will come together to share comprehensive and intersectional approaches and strategies to stop fossil fuel extraction, accelerate community-led climate solutions, and lead a Just Transition grounded in a climate justice framework. Critical topics include fossil fuel resistance; food sovereignty; forest protection; gender-responsive climate policies; Indigenous and human rights; Rights of Nature; strategic preparations for COP29 and COP30; uplifting care economies; community-led solutions; and transformative policies for our collective future. Women are leading the way!

March starts at 2:00 PM ET, meet up at 1:15 PM ET

City Clerk's Office, 141 Worth St, New York, NY 10013

On September 20, 2024 thousands of people will march in New York City for a Global Climate Strike to demand action from governments to end the era of fossil fuels.

Please be welcome to join us and walk together with other women and feminists who are calling for an end to fossil fuels and for gender-just climate solutions! All organizations, feminists, women, and gender justice advocates are welcome to join the contingent as we march, sing and raise our voices in community.

Let's celebrate Earth Day by taking a deep dive into a mysterious and mundane aspect of everyday life: plastics. Parsons faculty Jess Irish will screen her award-winning doc short (21 min), followed by a discussion of why plastics are both magical and monstrous, and what kinds of change can really make a difference.

This event will be recorded and shared with registered attendees afterward.

Libby Washburn, Special Assistant to the President for Native Affairs at the White House, will be the keynote speaker at the conference, Women Designing an Environmentally Just Future, to be held on the NJIT campus and virtually on March 25. The conference will focus on the communities hit first and hardest by climate change and environmental degradation, while highlighting the work of local leaders to reverse the damage.

Join us for our Earth Week keynote conversation between Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Founder of Urban Ocean Lab & Co-Founder of the All We Can Save Project) and Dr. Mia White (Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies in the Environmental Studies Program at the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School).

Special emphasis will be placed on the prospect and implications of participatory action research, the contribution of grassroots women leaders in disaster situations the Movement for Black Lives against racist disaster recovery practices and the experience of immigrant and indigenous communities in the recovery process.

This session will focus on the leadership of women in disaster areas and will be updated with more information soon.

The World Health Organization calls violence against women “a global health problem of epidemic proportions.” Despite increased attention to this issue, the current approach is not working for women and girls, men, or the communities in which they live.

What will it take to end violence against women? This critical conversation brings together leaders from Black Women’s Blueprint and Men Stopping Violence – U.S. organizations that work across borders, genders, and movements – to reimagine models for violence prevention.

At this moment, Indigenous communities are experiencing the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also facing ongoing fossil fuel extraction and pipeline struggles. Across North America, Turtle Island, tribes, as well as communities of color, are at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 due to a lack of resources and health disparities brought on by centuries of colonial policies and environmental racism.