Registration is open for the Toxics Action Center’s Local Environmental Action 2018. Register now for the opportunity to join community leaders, environmental advocates and activists from across New England for an exciting day of skills training, networking, and inspiration. Whether you have been to every conference or are attending for the first time, be sure not to miss this amazing opportunity to connect and grow our grassroots movement.

Join community leaders, environmental justice advocates and activists from across the region to build skills, discuss new ideas, and be inspired for the work ahead. Co sponsored by Clean Water Action, Sierra Club Massachusetts, Irving House at Harvard, Environmental Massachusetts, 350 Mass for a Better Future, the League of Women Voters, Northeastern University, CRECE, Elders Climate Action, MassPirg, New England Wind, Protect, Mothers Out Front, and the National Wildlife Federation.

Keynote speakers are Loretta Ross and the Reverend Mariama White-Hammond. Loretta Ross started her career in the women’s movement in the 1970s, working at the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, NOW, the National Black Women’s Health Project, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, among other social justice organizations. She is one of the co-creators of the Reproductive Justice framework and has lectured extensively on human rights, racism, appropriate whiteness, Calling In the Calling Out Culture, and violence against women. Her most recent publication is Reproductive Justice: An Introduction co-written with Rickie Solinger and published in 2017. She was the Co-Director of the 2004 March for Women’s Lives with 1.15 million participants. Rev. Mariama White-Hammond serves on the ministerial staff at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church where she is the Minister for Ecological Justice and the Interim Youth Pastor. She is committed to engaging the faith community, and particularly Black church, on climate change and ecological justice issues. Rev. Mariama challenges the Christian church to be responsive to issues like street violence, mass incarceration, climate change, AIDS, food security, and human rights. From 2001-2014, Rev. Mariama was the Executive Director of Project HIP-HOP (Highways Into the Past – History, Organizing and Power), where she used the arts as a tool to raise awareness about social issues and help young people to find their voice and share their ideas with the world. She speaks throughout the country and serves on both local and national boards and committees like the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund, Clean Water Action and Green the Church. In addition to her work at Bethel AME Church, Rev. Mariama is also a fellow with the Green Justice Coalition, a collaborative of people-of-color-led environmental groups. She was the MC for both the Boston Women’s March and Boston People’s Climate Mobilization.
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This is a fragrance free event, to be held at Northeastern University. Thanks for bringing your own water bottle and coffee mug. Have questions about the event? Email us at info@toxicsaction.org. The complete list of 16 workshops may be found at http://www.localenvironmentalaction.org/workshops1.html. Individual tickets $55, student tickets $25, tickets for members of co-sponsoring groups $35.