Monday, April 21, 2025 at 8:00pm - 9:30pm (EDT) - Zoom

Disarming Earth Day: War Is Not Green! Liberating Earth From Empire

Join us for the last teach-in of our series leading up to Earth Day 2025. This month, we plan to highlight the impact of U.S. war, militarism, and imperialism on people and the planet. This 4th teach-in will cover the central issues that we have been discussing and building toward: that War Is Not Green. We will cover the cost of war to the planet, the conjoined fates of the climate and anti-war movements, and what it means to build an anti-militarist climate movement that calls for an end to US warfare and imperialism, stands for repatriation of indigenous land, and builds a new world. 

In order to combat the climate crisis, we need to confront US militarism and imperialism. The U.S. military is the #1 institutional polluter in the world, with over 800 poisonous bases around the world, consistently building up pointless escalation and presence in every hemisphere. In moments of crisis at every level, we need to center our movements toward common targets and our collective futures. 

Speakers include:

Anthony Rogers-Wright, Black Alliance for Peace - Bio to come

Max Ajl - Max Ajl is a fellow at MECAM/University of Tunis, a Senior Fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, and a researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment. He is the author of a recent book titled A People's Green New Deal, as well as an editor at Agrarian South, Middle East Critique, and Journal of Labor and Society. Max's work has appeared in Agrarian South, the Journal of Peasant Studies, Globalizations, Middle East Critique, Review of African Political Economy, Middle East Report, and many other scholarly and popular journals. He researches climate politics, Tunisian national liberation, agrarian politics in the Arab region, and ecological planning, and Arab-North African intellectual.

Danaka Katovich, CODEPINK National Co-Director - Danaka graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in November 2020. Since 2018 she has been working towards ending US participation in the war in Yemen. At CODEPINK, she oversees all advocacy campaigns and facilitates our local organizing in the Midwest and in Europe. Her writing can be found in Jacobin, Salon, Truthout, CommonDreams, and more. 

Hosts:

Aaron Kirshenbaum - Aaron is CODEPINK's War is Not Green campaigner and East Coast regional organizer. Aaron holds an M.A. in Community Development and Planning and a B.A. in Human-Environmental and Urban-Economic Geography from Clark University. They have worked on internationalist climate justice organizing and educational program development, as well as Palestine, tenant, abolitionist organizing, and anti-zionist organizing in Jewish spaces. 

Jodie Evans - Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA, and serves on the CODEPINK Board of Directors. 

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