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We Are Not Who They Told Us We Are: Everyday People in Extraordinary Times
March 25, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.” –Walter Benjamin
We will engage writer, historian, and activist, Rebecca Solnit and her friend Saket Soni in a discussion about recovery, rethinking, and rebuilding after the Hurricane Helene disaster in Western North Carolina. We will examine this in the current context of major national and international disruption, and the ongoing need for change in systems and how we respond to disasters. We are looking forward to new insights and ideas that can help us effectively build a better, more resilient and just region in the face of so much turbulence.
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including Orwell’s Roses; Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Rebecca writes regularly for the Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International, and launched the climate project Not Too Late (nottoolateclimate.com).
Saket Soni is a labor organizer and human rights strategist working at the intersection of racial justice, migrant rights, and climate change. He is founder and director of Resilience Force, the voice of the rising workforce rebuilding America after climate disasters. He was profiled as an “architect of the next labor movement” in USA Today, chosen as a 2022-23 Aspen Institute Fellow, and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business for 2022.
This event will take place on Zoom on Tuesday, March 25th from 7-8:30PM. You will need to register ahead of time to receive the Zoom invitation.
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/KM2FXJGCReWNPrFK_ax6iA
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