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Abilene Building Community empowers marginalized groups through education and grassroots action, addressing issues like environmental racism, food insecurity, and systemic inequality to foster social justice and community resilience.

<p fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Guest Speaker Olinka Green is a nationally recognized community organizer, environmental justice advocate, poet, and educator from Dallas, Texas. For more than three decades, she has worked alongside communities impacted by environmental racism, food insecurity, economic injustice, and systemic inequality. &nbsp;A respected voice in the movement for social justice, Green has organized with the Poor People&#39;s Campaign, advocated for environmental cleanup in underserved neighborhoods, and educated communities on the intersections of history, public health, race, and justice. Her work has earned recognition from numerous civic and environmental organizations for her commitment to empowering communities through education and grassroots action. &nbsp;In Abilene, Green will present The Cross &amp; the Lynching Tree, a thought-provoking lecture that explores the historical, psychological, cultural, and social impacts of racial terror lynchings in America and their lasting legacy today.</p>

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