BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1377858.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011109Z DESCRIPTION:\n Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its s ignature weekly series this fall\, \;The Fierce Urgency of Now\, \ ;featuring Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color scholars\, activists\, and community leaders\, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilit ated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse\, the series also aligns with a cou rse they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. \;\n\n\n\n Panelists:\n\n\n\n \n Camila No brega | \;Brazilian journalist \;\n \n \n Nnimmo Bassey | \;Niger ian architect\, environmental activist\, and public sector practitioner\n \n \n Vandria Garcia Borari | \; \;Defender of indigenous rights\; M ember of the human rights organization Terra de Direitos\n \n\n\n\n Camila N obrega is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Free University of B erlin\, fostering Latin-American feminist theories and practices to resear ch the impact of media narratives on social-environmental conflicts. Speci alized journalist on social-environmental issues\, she was an environmenta l reporter from O Globo Newspaper and has also published articles in sever al international media platforms\, such as The Guardian\, Mongabay\, Le Mo nde Diplomatique\, among others. Based in between Germany and Brazil\, she also works with text\, photography and video to develop projects with gra ssroots networks towards new narratives and media democratization.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect\, environmental activ ist\, and public sector practitioner. \;He is the director of the ecol ogical think-tank\, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member s teering committee of Oilwatch International. He was chair of Friends of th e Earth International (2008-2012) and Executive Director of Nigeria’s Envi ronmental Rights Action (1993-2013). \; \;He received the 2010 Rig ht Livelihood Award also known as the “Alternative Noble Prize\,” the 2012 Rafto Human Rights Award\, and Nigeria’s national honor as Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) in \;2014 \;recognizing his environmental a ctivism. Bassey received an honorary doctorate from the University of York \, United Kingdom in July 2019. He \;is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects and has authored books on the environment\, archit ecture\, and poetry. \;His books include two volumes of poetry—We Thou ght It Was Oil\, But It was Blood \;(Kraft Books\, 2002)\, and I Will Not Dance to Your Beat \;(Kraft Books\, 2011)—as well as To Cook a Con tinent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa \;(Pam bazuka Press\, 2012) and Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological War \;(Dar aja Press\, 2016).\n\n\n\n Vandria Garcia Borari \;is a defender of ind igenous rights and member of the human rights organization Terra de Direit os\, a Human Rights organization working to defend\, promote and seek enfo rcement of rights\, especially economic\, social\, cultural and environmen tal rights. Graduated in Law from the Federal University of West Pará\, Va ndria is also a great ceramist of Tapajonic art and part of the Surara do Tapajós women's collective. The Surara collective has existed since 2016 a nd is composed of 30 women from 14 indigenous groups\, who fight for auton omy and empowerment of indigenous women\, to realize respect for the human rights of the peoples of the Lower Tapajós river.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n V irtual Event DetailsThis event will be livestreamed on YouTube Live. Atten dees registered for this event (link below) will receive a reminder for th e livestream fifteen minutes before the event along with a link to the You Tube page where you can participate in the live chat and ask questions dur ing the event.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T143000 LAST-MODIFIED:20201015T235608Z LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required) SUMMARY:Extractive Injustice and Grand Corruption URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/extractive-injustice- and-grand-corruption END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR