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Shared Roots: Climate Change, Colonialism, and the Fight for Land Back

  • The Joinery 111 Franklin Street Adelaide, SA, 5000 Australia (map)

Hosted by Free Palestine Adelaide

Shared Roots: Climate Change, Colonialism, and the Fight for Land Back

Join us to hear from Palestinian Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh and other Indigenous and Global South speakers about the links between climate change, colonialism, and ecological destruction. Through an evening of panel discussion, poetry, art, and workshops, 'Shared Roots' will illustrate the links between environmentalism and Indigenous Peoples' movements, and the crucial role of decolonisation in protecting ecosystems and the communities that rely on them globally. 

Light refreshments will be served.

Our speakers:

  • Professor Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientists and teaches at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University and Birzeit University. He is also the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natual History.

  • More speakers to be announced soon.

Ticket pricing information:

  • FREE for Palestinian and First Nations peoples

  • For everyone else - options for $10 and $20 tickets. Please pay whatever you can as all proceeds will go towards covering the costs of organising this event

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