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The Moral Call for Ecological Justice Across Alabama

Join Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and former Vice President Al Gore for a program on “The Moral Call for Ecological Justice Across Alabama.” The public is invited to this free event, where community members from around the state will share stories of the impacts of local environmental injustices, as well as discuss the health threats and ecological devastation from untreated wastewater, sewage lagoons, coal ash, tropical parasites and failed or nonexistent wastewater infrastructure. People from across the state will join together with marginalized communities in pursuit of climate and ecological justice.

CEE Senior Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers will join.

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Rev. Dr. Barber is President of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Former Vice President Gore is the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the climate crisis.

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise Community Development Corporation (ACRE) and serves as the Rural Development Manager for the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Alabama’s Black Belt.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-moral-call-for-ecological-justice-across-alabama-tickets-56639247514