Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice
Printer
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
United States, born 1948
Artist
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
United States, born 1948
Date2018
MediumLetterpress
Dimensions19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.6575
DescriptionThe People's Climate Movement mobilizes action for causes related to climate change, as well as economic and social justice. In 2014, it organized the People’s Climate March in New York City, and, in 2018, the organization led the global Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice marches, motivated by the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement. These marches highlighted the evidence that the poorest regions are those most likely to be affected by climate change. In a period of rising economic inequality, green consumerism caters to the affluent, while low-income communities are exposed to higher levels of environmental risk. In March 2023, the Guardian published an article based on a model developed by researchers at the University of Washington that demonstrated how neighborhoods in the United States most burdened by pollution are overwhelmingly Black and Hispanic. Amos Kennedy is a letterpress printer known for his iconoclastic, typographically driven designs. As printing shops close around the country, many have given him their old inks rather than disposing of them according to expensive and time-consuming EPA regulations.On View
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