Join your neighbors, community members, and climate justice advocates for an evening of shared food, learning, and conversation around climate superfund advocacy in Illinois and demanding that our biggest polluters pay for the damage they cause to our communities. This event is co-hosted by Sunrise Chicago and the Southeast Environmental Task Force and open to all members of the community. Food will be provided.

About the host:

Sunrise Chicago is a local chapter of the Sunrise Movement; we are building a movement of young people across race & class to combat the climate crisis & create a more just society in the process. We will force all levels of government to enact a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, invest in Black, Brown, & working class communities, & create millions of good union jobs.

The Southeast Environmental Task Force (SETF) is a nonprofit serving the southeast side and south suburbs of Chicago through environmental education, pollution prevention, and sustainable development in an area that has endured generations of industrial pollution. They began in 1989 as a coalition of 30 grassroots organizations coming together to oppose a garbage incinerator proposed at an old steel site. Since then, SETF has stopped the proposed conversion of Lake Calumet into an airport, opposed landfills at O’Brien Lock, participated in the 2001 Calumet Initiative which restored and enhanced open space and economic opportunities, extended landfill moratoriums, and helped to close the Stateline Coal Power Plant. Their mission is to create a southeast Chicagoland that will one day serve as a national and international model for the integration of industrial, residential areas into an environmentally sustainable urban community.