Event Details
The conference will cover Creative Protest Strategies, Public Dialogue and Media Engagement, Exposing Industry-Related Health Impacts, Oil and Gas Policy, Community Organizing and Success Stories, and Childhood Cancer Research and Health Studies. There will be ample opportunity for conference participants from academia, the media, activism, and families directly affected by toxic industry to mingle and discuss issues and ideas. The conference is free and breakfast and lunch will be provided. For More info and to register: luma.com/l55hslxg
Speakers (among other luminaries!) will include State Representative Katie Muth; journalists Reid Frazier, reporter for The Allegheny Front and Susan Phillips from NPR affiliate WHYY; and Kimberly Terrell, PhD with the Environmental Integrity Project. The lunchtime keynote speaker is Bilal Motley, a former steelworker in a Chester, PA oil refinery who is now the award-winning director of the film Midnight Oil.
Says PSR PA Executive Director Tonyehn Verkitus, “This political moment calls on us to educate ourselves, work together, and identify the concrete ways we can make pivotal change. This conference is equal parts education and impetus for action.”
This event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters Pennsylvania, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Science at Duquesne University.