Dear SSJ Forum,



The Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) and Amnesty International Japan cordially invites you to the following event on October 8, 2019. All ICAS events are held in English, open to the public, and admission is free unless otherwise noted.


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"I survived the climate crisis so far, but what's next?"


Speaker: Marinel Sumook Ubaldo, climate change activist and speaker at the COP21 in Paris (the 2015 UN's Climate Change Conference)


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Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Venue: Temple University, Japan Campus, 1F Parliament


Please note that we moved to a new campus. Our new address is 1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (世田谷区太子堂1-14-29). The campus is a 7-minute walk from Sangen-jaya station, two stops from Shibuya on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line.
https://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html


Moderator:Bjoern Schimkat, Campaigns Coordinator, Amnesty International Japan
Registration:icas@tuj.temple.edu <mailto:icas@tuj.temple.edu>
* Registration is encouraged, but not required.



Program:
7:00-7:15　Bjoern Schimkat: Welcome and introduction to Amnesty International
7:15-8:00　Marinel Sumook Ubaldo: Fighting the climate crisis on the frontlines
8:00-9:00　Q&A


Overview:

In November 2013, Marinel Ubaldo had just turned 16 years old when Typhoon Yolanda swept away her village in the Philippines. It killed more than 6,000 people; injured at least 28,000, and destroyed the homes and livelihoods many, as it affected 16 million people.


Marinel and her family survived, huddled together for days with no food or drinking water; waiting for help from the outside world. This is when Marinel realized that it was the same outside world--and global heating--that was the cause of their misery.
At that moment, miserable, thirsty and hungry, she decided to become an activist. To campaign in defense of her people, all people. To demand that the corporations and governments responsible for their misery take responsibility, and develop an action plan to save us from disaster.
Join us to hear Marinel describe how she became an activist, and discuss how to support her and be more effective activists ourselves.


Profiles:

Marinel Sumook Ubaldo is a young activist working to raise awareness of global heating. She spoke at the COP21 in Paris (the 2015 UN's Climate Change Conference) and testified at an investigation in New York about corporate responsibility for climate change and human rights abuses. She conducts seminars for communities and students on environmental issues, climate change and climate justice. Marinel also helped organizing the global climate strike on 20 September 2019.


Bjoern Schimkat is a campaign coordinator at Amnesty International in Tokyo. His work focuses on human rights and climate change as well as prisoners of conscience. He is a newly accepted member of the ember of Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Corps, as well as a member of Amnesty English volunteer group AITEN. Bjoern regularly speaks at schools and universities and organizes events for Amnesty such as the monthly Freedom Toast Café and the Pub Quiz.


Co-sponsor: Amnesty International Japan
Amnesty International is a global movement of 7 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. In pursuit of this vision, Amnesty international's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of these rights.


Amnesty International is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion, being funded mainly by our membership and public donations.


Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS)


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