Presented via zoom at the Pan African Peace and Climate Justice

Youth Summit in Kisumu, Kenya August 28. More information is found here, https://actionnetwork.org/events/panafpcj/

PCJ hosts open at 9 AM with a welcome.

At 9:10, Linda Charles Mapunda of Limitless Minds opens to address the "Power of Women inClimate Action and Peace Buidling." From Tanzania, she writes, I'm a graduate at the University of Dar Es Salaam program bachelor degree of Science in Agriculture and Natural Resources economics and business 2024. I am passionate and inspired about businesses and social work especially that touches women's empowerment, environment and climate.

Following Lindas presentation, AmazonTheatrix continues with a spoken word performance on wetland conservation under the guidance of Mr. Koga (right in picture). Edwin Koga is the Founder/Director Amazon Theatrix Ensemble(A.T.E) It offers a platform to youths become creative changemakers in Cultivating and Developing their potential in Arts and Media. For years, Edwin has led Amazon in Implementing projects/activities addressing social issues through Community Participatory Educational Theatre(CPET) amplifying voices of vulnerable communities through "Storytelling for Change" providing authentic communication creating pl;platform for dialogue at the grassroot Level. Edwin Is also a Trained Journalist,Facilitator/Trainer and Community Organizer.

At 9:30 AM, Activist, writer, and member of the FFF Newsletter team Akhar Bandyopadhyay will present "From War Machines to Green Futures: Disarmament as Climate Justice". Understanding the horrific nature of climate change in his own country, India, Akhar Bandyopadhyay stepped up to engage on many front to do what we must all do, to stop the climate breakdown. War on nature and the war on people share an extractivist logic. It traces resource geopolitics from Ukraine to Palestine and mineral-rich “zones” in India, as in Africa. It quantifies war-related emissions and the military’s hidden carbon “boot-print,” and follows the money from military budgets to underfunded climate action. It explains the feedback loop between the military–industrial–fossil fuel complex and warns against militarized responses to climate shocks and eco-fascism. The second half presents indigenous and grassroots alternatives in terms of agroecology, community sovereignty, and just transition, and concludes with an abolitionist roadmap to retool budgets, tools, and jobs for ecological repair. The core claim is simple: total disarmament is climate justice, and this proves that peace and climate justice are inseparably connected.

Following Akhar's presentation, AmazonTheatrix resumes with another short performance.

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