Paul and Lara Messersmith-Glavin, from the Institute for Anarchist Studies, will present Organizing Against Climate Catastrophe.

Lara and Paul Messersmith-Glavin will discuss the lessons from a recent grassroots organizing effort in North Portland that canvased a neighborhood to determine people’s understanding of their own power to do something about climate change.  In discussing and thinking together, residents began to realize that the climate change crisis offers the opportunity to build
a different kind of society.

Lara and Paul are board members of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, editors of the journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, and community organizers in Portland, Oregon.

Co-sponsored by the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, Corvallis 350.org, Center for Civic Engagement, and Student Sustainability Initiative.