Film Screening and Panel: Beyond Comedy: Getting Cornell to Step Up on Climate Justice

Cinemapolis, 1:30-3:00pm, Saturday September 7

120 E Green St, Ithaca, NY 14850

A joint screening of Cornell Commits to Confronting Climate Change Activists and Cornell: We Demand Climate Justice followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with members of the film crew and prominent activists from local movements. Panelists revealed the backstories to the film and the much longer drama of Cornell's response to activism Together, panelists discussed insights on ways forward for the climate justice movement.

Over 70 people joined this lively event to learn the inside story from diverse leaders calling on Cornell to enact institutional change.

Panelists for the Cinemapolis showing included:

• Caroline Levine, Cornell Professor of Literatures in English, a leader of TIAA Divest!, and a member of the team that successfully pressured Cornell to divest in 2020.

• Brian Eden, Cornell retiree, co-author of “Fifty Years of Activism at Cornell,” organizer with Campaign for Renewable Energy, and long-time activist at Cornell for racial and climate justice initiatives

• Eric Cheyfitz, Cornell Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP), former director of AIISP and active in the resistance to Israeli apartheid and genocide both on and off campus.

• Risa L. Lieberwitz, Cornell Professor of Labor and Employment Law, President of the Cornell chapter of American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and advocate for freedom of expression during Cornell's recent crackdowns on extramural speech during the Israel-Hamas War.

• Madelyn Rhodes, Cornell undergraduate, Fossil Free Cornell.

• bethany ojalehto mays, Cornell alum and former professor, Cornell on Fire organizer and film actor/writer/director

Tickets were free!