Women Leading Fossil Fuel Divestment and Resistance September 22, 2022 Frontline women and global advocates are building critical strategies for national and international divestment from harmful

Women Leading Fossil Fuel Divestment and Resistance September 22, 2022 Frontline women and global advocates are building critical strategies for national and international divestment from harmful extractive industries, while calling for justice and accountability from financial institutions. It is time for investments to move toward a Just Transition that places people and planet first. During the event, WECAN presented the second edition of the report, “Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry and Complicit Financial Institutions,” while also uplifting the voices, analysis and actions of global women leaders in efforts to divest from fossil fuels, deforestation, militarism, and extraction. Speakers include: -- Roishetta Ozane, Community Organizer for Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas, Healthy Gulf -- Gaagigeyaashiik - Dawn Goodwin, Ojibwe/White Earth; Representative/Indigenous Environmental Network and co-founder of R.I.S.E. Coalition; 1855 Treaty -- Laalitha Surapaneni, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota -- Jodie Evans, Co-founder, CODEPINK -- Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director, Amazon Watch -- Comments and Moderation by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Executive Director This event is part of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) three-day Climate Justice Forum: “Facing the Climate Emergency on the Road to COP27: Solutions and Perspectives from Global Women and Gender Diverse Leaders,” taking place September 20-22.

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Jill Tarter, the astrophysicist who inspired Jodie Foster's character in Carl Sagan's movie Contact, dedicated her career to the search for extraterrestrial life. She is now the Director of the

Jill Tarter, the astrophysicist who inspired Jodie Foster's character in Carl Sagan's movie Contact, dedicated her career to the search for extraterrestrial life. She is now the Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California... but it wasn't an easy path. After her scholarship was taken away, she went to the dean of the engineering college and said, "Dean Corson, this isn't fair. I've been on dean's list every semester." And he kindly said, "You know, you're right. It isn't fair. It isn't fair at all." She has no idea what he said when he called up Procter & Gamble, but he got her that scholarship back. 20 years later, when Dean Corson was the president of Cornell, he had an advisory committee and Jill Tarter was on it. She was able to go up to him all those years later and say, "See, President Corson? Thank you for believing in me. I'm on your advisory committee for this fantastic telescope and I have to thank you once again."

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