Climate Activism

Monday, November 1, 2021 - 1:00pm
CST
Atahualpa Caldera Sosa

Recently hundreds of climate protesters were arrested at the US Capital, targeting Representatives beholden to fossil fuel corporations. They demanded that the President and Congress act boldly against the climate crisis. Elsewhere indigenous peoples protest oil pipelines crossing their lands. Around the world climate activists continue the climate protests sparked in 2019 by a global wave of school strikes led by young people, reminding us that we are failing them by our inaction. Greta Thunberg was their defiant voice.

The film “Climate Revolution” documents that global challenge by youth and the response of the older generation. It focuses specifically on a day of climate action in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Filmmaker Atahualpa Caldera Sosa will tell how Mexicans and ex-pats of all ages marched and rallied, responding to Greta’s call. They carried signs “There is no planet B” and “The fierce urgency of now.” Across the globe on that day millions also listened and awakened to the peril.

But governments and world leaders still are not responding on a scale and with an urgency that suits the threat. This week climate activists will be watching closely as world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26. Will they go beyond the unfulfilled promises of the last UN Climate Conference in Madrid two years ago? Since then the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a blistering report about the dire threat humanity faces, reflecting the sense of grave urgency of the world’s climate scientists. They have heard Greta’s voice. Will our leaders heed it this time? They will need to hear the people’s voice loud and forceful.

Upcoming Events

Monday, September 8, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Vijay Prashad
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal

Note: This program is rescheduled from August 11.

We surely live in interesting times--from the deepening of U.S.-led militarism to existential ecological and economic crises to shifts in the world order ranging from a significant decline of the Global North along with the rise of the East and Global... Read more

Monday, September 22, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Rebecca Grant
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

Award-winning author Rebecca Grant discusses her latest book--Access, Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom. Access charts the reproductive freedom movement... Read more

Monday, October 13, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Film Screening
Followed by discussion with Brad Rockwell
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

2025 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary

Remarkable largely unknown footage of a dramatic turning point in world history covering events over three continents concerning a tragic coup in the Congo. Featuring: Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy... Read more