Learn what union members are doing to defend our planet, immigrant co-workers, clients, and communities. 

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Featured speakers include: 

• Justin Akers Chacón: Justin Akers Chacón is a professor of Chicana/o studies at San Diego City College and member of AFT Local 1931. He is an activist involved in immigrant rights and defense work, border abolitionism and cross-border labor solidarity, and housing justice organizing in San Diego County. He is also a writer, whose recent works include: The Border Crossed Us (Haymarket Books, 2021), No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (with Mike Davis, Haymarket Books, 2nd edition, 2018), and Radicals in the Barrio (Haymarket Books, 2018).

• Chema Hernández Gil: Chema Hernández Gil is a political organizer with SEIU Local 1021 and has been active in climate and trade justice movements since 2001. He co-founded Seed the Commons, an all-volunteer grassroots food politics organization dedicated to building sustainable and just food systems. Chema played a key role in organizing with La Via Campesina in the lead-up to the 2009 UN Climate Change Summit (COP 15) and has worked with various environmental justice groups in the Bay Area throughout the 2010s, focusing on climate, food justice, and transit equity.

Presented by the SEIU 1021 Latino Caucus & Climate & Environmental Justice Committee.