Climate Change and Popular Culture

New York Society Library 53 E. 79th St., New York, United States

A special, climate-related event co-sponsored by Guernica magazine and the New York Society Library. Moderated by Guernica's deputy publisher, this event will feature novelists, essayists, and cultural critics in conversation about how climate change is represented in books and films; how apocalyptic/dystopic …

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John Jay Ecocinema Cafe

John Jay College's 6th Annual three-day marathon of award-winning environmental documentaries. Monday April 15, 2019  through Wednesday, April 17, 2019 in John Jay College's New Building Student Dining Hall. Full Schedule at:  jjay.cuny.edu/ecocinema Free Tickets at:  http://tinyurl.com/jjc-films Films Screening in …

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The Economics of the Green New Deal

John Jay College, 9.64 NB (9th floor conference room) 524 West 59th St., New York, NY, United States

A Conversation with Bob Pollin and Kate Aronoff.

Free

Film: Breaking Their Silence-Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War

The sordid world of wildlife trafficking and poaching is orchestrated by ruthless crime syndicates raking in revenues well in excess of $20 billion. It’s the 4th most profitable illegal enterprise behind drugs, guns and human trafficking and has now been proven to fund global terrorism.

There’s a lens through which this crisis has yet to be examined; through the eyes of the dynamic women fighting silently on the frontlines to end it.

Filmmaker, Kerry David, and her dedicated crew, pursue a passion that takes them around the globe to meet an unlikely group of heroes who are rising up to do all they can to prevent and reverse these terrible offenses against our planet’s most vulnerable animals.