02/01/2023
By Alicia Weaver

Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell 2022-2023 Speaker Series: Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles, Resistance, and Survival continues this semester with Somnath Mukherji on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 at 3:30 p.m. inCoburn Hall G51, speaking on "Grassroots Perspectives on Climate Change: Learning from Indigenous Peoples."

The Greeley Speaker series focuses on settler colonial and structural violence against Indigenous peoples as well as resistance mobilized by Indigenous communities against powerful entities locally and transnationally. This talk will highlight the struggles of Indigenous peoples at the frontlines of the climate crisis: the devastating impact on Indigenous communities and the ways in which they are responding to climate change based on Indigenous conceptions of climate justice.

Somnath Mukherji is an activist and transnational community organizer. He has been working with grassroots groups in India and with various collectives and organizations in the U.S. on issues of people’s rights, and liberation for the last two decades. He works alongside Indigenous and tribal communities in India facing state/structural violence including environmental crisis and climate change. He also works on issues ranging from incarceration of community activists in India, labor rights, farmers’ rights, citizenship crisis, detention, mitigating the impacts of the pandemic and many others. Presently, he is the Development Coordinator of Association for India's Development, a volunteer movement promoting sustainable, equitable and just development in India.

This is a hybrid event. Please register if you would like to receive a Zoom link.