What Was Missing From COP 29: Toward an Anti-Militarist Climate Movement

Join us for a post-COP 29 discussion after this year's annual UN climate conference. We will briefly discuss what was discussed before taking a broader look at what the world's diplomats didn't discuss. The Pentagon is the #1 institutional polluter in the world, and so we can't ignore the relationships between climate change and militarism. We will be discussing everything that COP doesn't: fighting climate change with anti-militarism, the past and present in Palestine, the U.S. and China, and the arc of the climate and anti-imperialist movement. COP does not address any of this, but we will in this webinar.

Panelists include:

Nour is CODEPINK's Palestine and Iran Campaigner. Nour graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies in June 2022. She has been advocating for Palestinian liberation for over 5 years, including organizing within her university. She also organizes around related issues, such as abolition.

Dr. Patrick Bigger is the Research Director at the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive climate and economy think tank. Prior to joining CCI, he was a professor of economic geography at Lancaster University in the UK. Among his many research interests, he has been writing about the intersection of militarism and the climate crisis for more than a decade.

K.J. Noh is a political analyst, educator and journalist focusing on the geopolitics and political economy of the Asia-Pacific. He is a member of Veterans for Peace and Pivot to Peace and the co-host of The China Report on the Breakthrough News Network.

Host:

Aaron Kirshenbaum is CODEPINK's War is Not Green campaigner and East Coast regional organizer. Aaron holds an M.A. in Community Development and Planning and a B.A. in Human-Environmental and Urban-Economic Geography from Clark University. They have worked on internationalist climate justice organizing and educational program development, as well as Palestine, tenant, and abolitionist organizing.