20 June 2009 | 1:00-6:00pm | Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th Street, New York City
WEDO invites you to join us at
People's Voices on the Crisis, an event we're co-sponsoring that aims to shed light on
the all-too-real social and environmental impacts of the current financial, food, energy and climate change crises. The event will bring together activists from civil society organizations, trade unions and grassroots groups on a local, national and international level who will give testimony on how their lives and communities are being directly affected by this systemic crisis. The event precedes a major UN event on the economic and financial crises, being held 24-26 June 2009 at UN headquarters in New York. Read more
02 June 2009, Reuters: Climate change legislation is advancing in the U.S. House of Representatives and is expected to go through several committees this month. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has already approved the bill to cut industry's greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020. Now, other committees will take their crack at the bill which could result in further changes.
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