Appalachian Climate Action Collaborative

🗣 RESCHEDULED EVENT TONIGHT
In tandem with this evening’s event will also be the rescheduled merch fundraiser & info session about the movement. Come stop by & learn about how to get involved! Come see some local art!

🎨 Call For Submissions! 🎭

This coming First Friday, ClimAct will be having a climate change themed art showcase at 3rd Place 6-9! Any & all forms of art are acceptable so long as they fit! Send us a DM or Email us at [email protected] if interested! Please also share on stories or with friends !

Come learn about the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement and to remember activist Tortuguita who was murdered by police in the Weelaunee forest. Merch made by local artists will be sold and the money will be donated to the folks on the ground. The destruction of our environment and the violence of the police is not just an Atlanta issue, but a local one as well. Come learn about the DTAF movement, write letters to activists in jail, and remember Tortuguita.

BOO! Are you interested in learning about the power dynamics here on campus? 🎃

It’s spookier than you think. JOIN US ON SANFORD TO HEAR ABOUT THE REALITY OF WHO MAKES OUR DECISIONS. Let’s demask the Board of Trustees scooby-doo style. They tell us to vote or to put our concerns through the systems they’ve given us, but does that really mean we have a say in how our campus is run? What are their motives? Who are they?

We will be there on Monday from 12pm-2pm. Tuesday TBD. We’ll be stacked with info and ~candy~ if you dare play trick-or-trustees. 👻

How would you want your tuition money spent by the leaders of Appalachian State? How have you felt lied to by this university?🧐 Drop a comment below and share your opinion + experience ⬇️.

This past Wednesday, we wanted to ask folks these questions & platform voices that ASU is intentionally silencing. A huge thank you to all those who stopped by our demonstration and joined us for our march on to the administration building. Students, faculty, alumni, and tourists were surprised at the reality of ASUs actions.
We then marched to and chanted inside the building until we were told to leave. Although it was only for a short moment, we disrupted business as usual. We will continue to pursue as many of these moments as we can, and we need your help. We will continue to demand climate justice until this university puts its money where the needs of the on & off campus communities are!📣💥

General meetings Monday at 5pm in 3rd Place.

Up-close faces blurred to respect privacy!

** Click the link in our bio to sign up for further details and the Zoom link!**

Join us for a series of learning sessions that will give you a peek at some of the key principles, lessons, and ideas that inspire and drive ClimAct. After almost 4 years of organizing in our community, ClimAct has learned a lot - and we want to share these lessons with you. We will bring in key literature and ideas that have shaped and been shaped by community organizing and social change over the world and throughout history.

Whether you are pushing for racial justice, climate justice, reproductive justice, or anything else, these discussions will shed light into some key processes and ideas that inspire and facilitate change.

Please join us for one or all of these sessions! No matter your experience, come share your own wisdom and stories and help us learn together so that we can become effective drivers of change.

🌳❕Schedule and Beep List❗️🪵

We’re less than 24 hours from the start of Party For Our Planet 2022! We cannot thank everyone enough for all the support and positive emotions towards this event!

Some reminders & updates for the show:
- we will be spray painting merch, as well as selling and distributing some other cool stuff tomorrow. Make sure to bring your own clothes to have painted & receive a discount
- please please don’t forget to tip the Lily’s staff and the bands!
- will be doing an acoustic set tomorrow evening!

See y’all tomorrow at 6!

Last year on Earth Day, we hosted an event called “Party For Our Planet” on Sanford Mall at ASU, and while it was a success, we figured we’d do it again this year!

Next Friday, stop by from between 6PM & midnight for live music, great vendors, and have, as they say, a “Real Cool Time” with us as we look to get some funds to some local folks doing amazing work! And if you are unable to attend, be sure to keep posted for more events like this in the future!

Also, bring your favorite blank piece of clothing as we will hopefully be able to spray the logo of the Collaborative onto whatever you got!

Mark your calendars and we’ll see y’all there!

Please also note: Lilys is 21+ past 9PM, we absolutely of course value folks who are under the age, but this venue was chosen as it is the safest space we know of in town for folks!

Excited to announce our first ever benefit show we’ll be hosting on Earth Day this year at Lily’s Snack Bar! This has been an idea for a while and we are so incredibly thankful that Lilys has been open to hosting us!

The lineup of is being finalized and will be announced very soon. Stay tuned for more info on this exciting event!

Also a huge thanks to friend of the collaborative for designing one of our flyers!

Join the Black Appalachian Coalition- BLAC for a discussion of “The Harlan Renaissance” with author William H. Turner!

West Virginia University Press says, “The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky’s coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner.”

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-ipqzsjE9PZ-xKsM-I95ScGJFpM_zZd

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