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Climate activist to speak at Keokuk library | Daily Democrat, Fort Madison, Iowa | mississippivalleypublishing.com

In celebration of Women in History Month AAUW Keokuk Branch has invited Miriam Kashia of Iowa City to speak in the Round Room of the Keokuk Public Library at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 21.

Miriam is a longtime member of several environmental groups including 100Grannies for a Livable future, Citizen’s Climate Lobby, and statewide organizations fighting concentrated animal feeding operations and carbon sequestering pipelines. In 2014, at the age of 71, she walked every step across America for 8 months, 3,100 miles, with the Great March for Climate Action. Kashia has been arrested four times for non-violent direct action (civil disobedience) to stop the KXL and DAPL pipelines. At the age of 62 she served in the Peace Corps in Namibia, Africa helping orphans and vulnerable children in a small rural community on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in the midst of the AIDS pandemic. She wrote a chapter in the award-winning book We Rise to Resist; A New Era in Women’s Political Action which tells her story and what she has learned about activism along the way. She is one of the people featured in the documentary The Race to Save the World about climate activism.

Kashia was recently named a Climate Hero by The Guardian and currently is actively supporting the Iowa Easement Team, a coalition of landowners who are working hard to prevent three dangerous pipelines across much of Iowa.

AAUW is very excited to welcome Miriam to our community to hear her story. The public is welcome to hear Miriam who believes “you don’t lose until you quit” and “everything we do matters.”