May Boeve of 350.org visiting Cape Town, UCT and Jozi
May Boeve is the new executive director of 350.org, the grass roots global climate movement that three years ago initiated the fast-growing global divestment movement. She succeeds Bill McKibben who, together with 350.org, was a recipient of the ‘alternative Nobel prize’, the Right Livelihood Award for 2014. May, who was recently profiled by the Guardian, which hailed her as the ‘new face of the climate change movement’, is visiting South Africa over the next week, and will be speaking on several different occasions about the global climate and fossil fuel divestment movements:
Monday 11 May, 09h00–11h00: AIDC (129 Rochester Rd, Observatory, Cape Town) Session 1: Fossil fuel divestment and the global movement. Session 2: Climate justice in South Africa – information sharing session and presentation by Project 90x2030 on mobilization around the forthcoming AU Summit. (Please RSVP to either neoka@project90by2030.org.za or khomotso@350.org)
Monday 11 May, 17h00: University of Cape Town Upper Campus: Snape Building SNLT 1: Public talk on the global climate and fossil fuel divestment movements. (B4 on this map).
Tuesday 12 May, 12h45: A closed talk at Stellenbosch University, email via this Facebook link for details.
Wednesday 13 May 2015: 17h30 for 18h00, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg: A divestment dialogue
