August 11th, 2009 join us for the Project Survival Media Benefit at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
Imagine:
What if, on all seven continents, there were young people equipped to globally broadcast pivotal stories about the climate crisis?
What if these young people were empowered to amplify disenfranchised voices and propel the principle of “Survival” to the forefront of the political debate?
Well this is Project Survival Media. In the lead up to the UN Climate Negotiations, we are assembling a global network of youth journalists who will use video, photography, and blogs to report from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
We use names like climate change and global warming. Really, we are talking about Survival. It is very clear that this struggle is not about future generations. It is right now.
Right Now
* Desertification is running rampant in Africa, detrimentally exasperating every social and health issue.
* Heat waves have spread over Europe claiming hundreds of thousands of lives
* Basic resources like water are becoming extinct in many parts of Asia or too plentiful and are already claiming islands
* Droughts lay thickly over Australia, exhausting their agricultural system
* Diseases are spreading exponentially each year all over South America
* And, Hurricanes and forest fires have spun out of control throughout North America.
* Oh and the Ice Caps, our global climate stabilizer, are melting
Everywhere, the fossil fuel industry is wreaking havoc. And as a result, everything is changing.
And yet, we continually hear this false contradiction parroted throughout the most powerful nations in the world: what is scientifically necessary is not politically viable.
So, it is not politically viable to adhere to scientific targets that ensure a sustainable, peaceful, equitable, and collaborative treaty? But somehow it is politically viable to let half the world drown in climate chaos?
The vast majority of people all over the world are calling on their governments to make these necessary changes, and Youth are at the forefront of this. We do not accept that some people are just not worth saving.
We call on our leaders to follow our example:
Event Details
Guest Speakers:
Adrienne Maree Brown the Executive Director of The Ruckus Society
Antonia Juhasz from the Chevron Campaign at Global Exchange
Shadia Fayne Wood Coordinator and Found of Project Survival Media
Live Art & Silent Auction
We have also secured artists who will do some live art. Their pieces will then be up for silent auction. All proceeds go to benefit Project Survival Media.
Bay Area DJ’s
-Haylow
-LN
-Dion Decibels
-The Whooligan
To Get involved with the project email me at Shadia.fayne@gmail.com.
