The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the next conversation in our series “Learning From the Past, Fighting for the Future”

A Conversation Between Tom O’Connell and Barbara Freese

Monday, November 30, 2020, 7pm

This event will premiere on ESFL’s Facebook page and YouTube channel

Join host Tom O’Connell as he interviews environmental attorney, Barbara Freese, about her new book, Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible. This new and timely book takes the reader through eight campaigns of corporate denial from the slave trade to radium consumption; financial manipulation to climate change. In a general election campaign in which corporate abuses too often go unchallenged, Freese’s powerful stories equip citizens with the understanding we need to hold corporations accountable in the future.

Barbara is also the author of Coal: A Human History, selected as a New York Times Notable Book and recently released in an updated edition. This critically-acclaimed book tells the story of how coal has transformed the world over the centuries, describes the drama swirling around coal use today, and explains why coal represents such a profound threat to the global climate.

Freese is an environmental attorney, policy analyst and speaker who has for several years been deeply involved in energy and climate issues, with a particular focus on coal. She has fought to block the construction of new coal plants and to enact climate protection laws at the state and federal level, and she co-authored multiple reports on coal use when she was a senior policy advocate on the staff of the Union of Concerned Scientists. In the mid-1990s, when she was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota, Freese litigated the science of climate change against the coal industry, confronting first-hand the science denial that would later become so prominent in the U.S.

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