As part of Twelve Days Free from Violence, on Day 10: Friday, September 30:

An evening with Bill McKibben: 6:00-8:00PM

“Organizing Just Gets Better: Third Act and the fight for a progressive legacy.”

We are thrilled to have an evening with Bill McKibben. He’ll discuss his new work focus, Third Act , and we will have opportunity to ask questions.

Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth, will introduce Bill McKibben.

Eventbrite registration is required for Zoom information. Join us to learn more about this new movement to address our climate crisis.

Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, and the newly released, “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened.”

Event Organizers:

Vote-Climate https://vote-climate.org

Twin Cities Nonviolent https://twincitiesnonviolent.org

Sponsors:

Honor the Earth https://honorearth.org

Friends of the Mississippi River https://fmr.org

Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light https://mnipl.org

Twin Cities Nonviolent https://twincitiesnonviolent.org

Vote-Climate https://vote-climate.org

Supporters: (Two Days Free from Violence Against the Earth)

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Patagonia