"Youth Activism and the Climate Justice Movement" Upcoming Forum at Garden City Community Church

Green Umbrella environmental organizers and Cornell University students, K.C. Alvey and Reed Steberger, are part of a growing grassroots movement for clean, renewable energy.

Residents of all ages are invited to hear Alvey and Steberger speak at the Garden City Community Church Forum on Sunday, January 8^th at 9am. There are no reservations and the event is free.

The two will highlight how the process of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for natural gas threatens the health, environment, and local economies of communities across New York State. They will discuss how communities are fighting back against dangerous forms of fossil fuel extraction (fracking and tar sands oil) and are working to create thriving, just and sustainable economies based on clean energy, green jobs, and local food.

In particular, Alvey and Steberger will focus on how young people are driving the climate justice movement forward around the country in a new surge of youth activism against corporate greed, which is part of a larger movement to reclaim democracy, embodied by the Occupy Movement.

Discussion will follow about the important ways religious communities can help in this struggle to create a just and sustainable future.

The Green Umbrella- New York Youth for a Just and Sustainable Future is a network of young activists that aims to create real social change by understanding common sources of social, economic, and environmental injustices. Please visit www.NYGreenUmbrella.Wordpress.com.

The Green Umbrella is hosting Power Shift: New York in spring 2012 in Albany. Check out www.PowerShiftNY.com. 

The Garden City Community Church is located at Stewart Avenue, corner of Whitehall Boulevard. It is an “Open & Affirming” congregation of the United Church of Christ (Protestant), so no matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey all are welcome.  On Sundays the GCCC has 8:30 am Communion in the Chapel and 10:30 am worship in the Sanctuary. The Forum is held at 9:15am. Church Sunday School is held during the regular service, with babysitting in the Crib Room for children under 2 years old, equipped with silent pagers for parents. The Garden City Community Church is handicap accessible with ramps on the Whitehall Boulevard side of the church and a full elevator to the lower level.   Please call 746-1700 or go to www.GardenCityCommunityChurch.org for more information.

For information regarding this particular event, please call Alvey at 516.326.1720 or Melva Victorino, Chair of the Forum at 516.640.5164.