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Monday, March 24th • 6:30 PM ET / 11:30 PM IST via Zoom
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An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people--people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.
Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change.
Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.
"The antidote for your climate change paralysis." -Sierra Magazine
"As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world."-Barack Obama
A reforming constitutional lawyer and senator in her early career, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. She is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. She served in two capacities as the pioneering United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She is the former President of Ireland, the former Chair of The Elders and is co-founder of Project Dandelion - the global women-led campaign for climate justice. She has been awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the 2019 Charleston John Maynard Keynes Prize.
The Solas Nua Nonfiction Book Group has partnered with CIFF 2025 to read this month's title, Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson, as a followup to the festival's opening night screening of MRS ROBINSON--a documentary charting the legacy and impact of Mary's life and career. Please join us on Thursday, February 27th, at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD, for a momentous occasion as we welcome Mary Robinson to Washington, D.C.'s metro area. She will be in attendance to discuss the film with our Solas Nua audiences after the screening. You don't want to miss this opportunity to meet the author in person and celebrate at a post-screening reception!
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