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Anjali is a climate justice activist, communicator and organizer. She works to strengthen climate change messaging and discourse in Canada by centring the stories of those on the front lines of the climate crisis. She brings a strong justice lens to climate change messaging and keeps her work connected to social movements that have been demanding climate justice in the Global South for decades. Anjali is Climate Justice Lead at Sierra Club BC and Sectoral Organizer with the newly formed Climate Emergency Unit. Resources: — Sierra Club BC https://sierraclub.bc.ca/— Climate Emergency Unithttps://www.climateemergencyunit.ca/— Padma Centre for Climate Justicehttps://medium.com/@padmaclimate— West Coast Environmental Law https://www.wcel.org/
Author: Anjali Appadurai, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-09-07
Eugene Kung (he/him/his) is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), working on Tar Sands, Pipelines and Tankers, as well as with RELAW. He is committed to human rights, social justice and environmental justice and has been working to stop the Kinder Morgan TransMountain expansion project.Eugene was born and raised in Burnaby BC, holds a BA from UBC (2001) and JD from Dalhousie (2006) and was called to the BC Bar in 2008. Prior to joining WCEL, Eugene was a staff lawyer with the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) where he had a social justice law practice in the areas of Constitutional, Human Rights, Administrative, Anti-Poverty and Regulatory law. He has represented low and fixed-income ratepayers before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC); low-income tenants of slumlords; Treeplanters and Temporary Foreign Workers before the BC Human Rights Tribunal; and families of deceased farmworkers at a coroner's inquest.Resources: — "The Time of the Lone Wolf is Over" by Eugene Kung: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2016/07/OS124_Kung.pdf— Eugene's writings for Policy Options: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/authors/eugene-kung/— West Coast Environmental Law: https://wcel.org/— BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre: http://bcpiac.com/— Climate Justice Webinar Series: "Just Is"≠ Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5-J6H0rl0— 2018 Tsleil-Waututh v. Canada case brief: https://www.dgwlaw.ca/case-brief-tsleil-waututh-v-canada-attorney-general-2018-fca-153/— "Tim Hortons Workers File Double-Double BC Rights Complaint": https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/tim-hortons-complaint-bc-human-rights-dawson-creek_n_2104706— "BC Refuses Calls to Compensate African Tree-planters": https://thetyee.ca/News/2014/06/05/BC-Treeplanter-Compensation/— Read the Trans Mountain Assessment Report by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation: https://twnsacredtrust.ca/assessment-report-download/
Author: Eugene Kung, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-09-21