What Now? A Community Response to the Climate Emergency

WHAT NOW? A Community Response to the Climate Emergency

A climate forum and discussion on Friday March 20, 6:30pm at Inner Light in Soquel.

Panelists include Bestselling Author Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and the New Yorker essay, “What If We Stopped Pretending?” Franzen is also author of The End of the End of the Earth and a local volunteer with the Homeless Garden Project.

Inner Light Ministries Reverend Deborah Johnson. Johnson is also on the board of The Pachamama Alliance, working with indigenous tribes to protect the Amazonian rainforests and sacred headwaters, author of The Sacred Yes and Your Deepest Intent

Former County Supervisor and Executive Director of LandWatch Monterey County Gary Patton. Patton is an instructor in the Legal Studies Program at UCSC. His daily blog postings are found on his blog, “We Live In A Political World,” at www.gapatton.net.

Extinction Rebellion member and Innate Resiliency Author Ami Chen Mills-Naim. Mills-Naim is a former, local investigative journalist, and author of CIA Off Campus, The Spark Inside, and State of Mind in Classroom, and member of the XR International Regenerative Culture Working Group.

Extinction Rebellion Chase Bank arrestees will also be participating.

Friday, March 20, 2020 6:30 - 9pm
Inner Light Ministries 5630 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Donations Requested (Suggested $10-$30)


This forum is designed to gather local leaders and concerned residents to discuss and explore responses to the climate emergency on Planet Earth (and in Santa Cruz County too) and the need for direct action and a concerted, community-wide response. What can we do? How can our concerns be translated most effectively into action?


Event Contact: Peter Melton (530) 680-5550 or [email protected]

About Extinction Rebellion (XR)
We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis. Scientists agree we have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making. Extinction Rebellion (XR) is an international movement which engages in nonviolent civil disobedience with the aim of radical change in order to minimize the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.