rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/the-road-ahead-presented-by-david-njage?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-the-road-ahead-presented-by-david-njage' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> PCJ Africa https://actionnetwork.org/groups/pcj-africa https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/002/833/481/normal/open-uri20250822-1194987-abrbk7 Presented via zoom at the Pan African Peace and Climate Justice Youth Summit in Kisumu, Kenya August 27. More information is found here, https://actionnetwork.org/events/panafpcj/ Activist 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, Amazon Theatrix will present a short performance 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 Organiser Global sponsors of the talk include https://actionnetwork.org/events/86b163d8943d758706106fb501047ba9dafa4364