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Fire Drill Friday: February Rally | President Biden's Executive Orders
Welcome to this month's Fire Drill Friday Rally! We're stoked to be joined by Jane Fonda and powerful guests Congresswoman Cori Bush, Friends of the Earth Se…
Welcome to this month's Fire Drill Friday Rally! We are delighted to have Jane Fonda and strong guests, Congressman Cori Bush, Nicole Ghio, senior manager for fossil fuels at Friends of the Earth, author and activist Terry Tempest Williams, musician and climate activist Rico Sisney and co-founder of TEJAS, Bryan Parras.
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About the guests:
Rico Sisney is a recording artist, educator, and climate justice activist based in Chicago, Illinois who now resides in the Occupied Land of Ohlone on the west coast of the United States. Rico joined Greenpeace over 10 years ago to support local efforts to shut down two of the dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the country on the South Side of Chicago. Last year he was one of 22 activists who demonstrated at the Fred Hartman Bridge in Houston calling on leaders to envision a world beyond fossil fuels and embrace a just transition to renewable energy. Rico is the presenter and producer of the Greenpeace podcast "What We Need Now" on the topic of environmental justice.
Bryan Parras is a lifelong resident of Houston's historic East End Barrios, a Mexican-American working class community. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Bryan helped organize cultural programs through Nuestra Palabra, Latino writers who have a say. Mr. Parras became the co-producer and board operator of the Nuestra Palabra radio show on KPFT and began creating his own media using new digital tools. As a teacher at the time, Bryan also began organizing with his father, who had already focused on environmental justice issues in the community. When the city of Houston began building a new high school next to three petrochemical plants, Bryan used his media skills and began documenting the stories of the environmental and social justice movement. In 2005, Bryan co-founded Tejas and campaigned for communities in the same barrios in the east where he grew up.
Congressman Cori Bush is a nurse, community activist, organizer, single mother, and ordained pastor for the people of St. Louis. Congresswoman Bush is serving her first term as a Missouri District Representative in the United States House of Representatives. She is the first black woman and first nurse to represent Missouri. the first woman to represent Missouri's 1st Congressional District; and the movement's first activist to fight for black lives, elected to the United States Congress.
Nicole Ghio has spent over a decade battling deadly fossil fuel projects around the world, as well as the institutions, policymakers, and finances that support them. She has run successful campaigns to force corrupt officials out of office and worked with a broad coalition of advocacy groups to stop fossil fuel expansion in the US. As Senior Fossil Fuels Program Manager at Friends of the Earth, Nicole advocates a just transition from our dependence on dirty fuels that endanger our communities and our climate.
Terry Tempest Williams is a citizen writer who has written seventeen books, including the environmental classic "Refuge - An Unnatural Tale of Family and Place". “Finding beauty in a broken world;” “When women were birds;” “The hour of the land;” and finally “Erosion - Essays of Undoing”. Known for her passionate prose, which combines the poetics of the place with an ethic of the place, she continues to show us how environmental problems are economic problems, social problems and ultimately questions of justice. We see through her globally translated letter that the climate crisis is not just a political, but a spiritual one. Terry Tempest Williams is currently Writer-in-Residence at Harvard Divinity School, where she and her husband Brooke Williams split their time between Cambridge, Massachusettes and Castle Valley, Utah.
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