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At Chicago Community Climate Forum, participants connect around practical solutions
Dallas Goldtooth, an activist with the Indigenous Environmental Network who helped stop the Keystone XL pipeline, is still advocating for sustained demonstrations and non-violent actions.
“We need a story of change…of resistance,” he told a gathering of close to 1,500 civic leaders, community members, and representatives from 70 civic and environmental organizations that attended the Chicago Community Climate Forum, held Dec. 3 at The Field Museum.
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What: A gathering at The Field Museum for Chicago’s civic leaders and community members to discuss ways to take action against climate change despite U.S. plans to withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The Forum will mark the launch of a Chicago Agreement on Climate and Community, a commitment by the city’s neighborhoods, institutions, and organizations to curb climate change. The event will feature speakers and musical performances.