Part of the *3-Month Gulf Disaster Anniversary National Week of Action*

Tues, JULY 20, 7-9pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley (at Woolsey, next to Ashby BART)
FREE (donations appreciated) | Food provided

Featuring

Rose Braz, Center for Biological Diversity
Since the BP explosion, the Center's decisive action and in-depth
investigating have exposed massive government corruption and lax
environmental review, leading to major media exposés and six lawsuits to
secure a full cleanup and wildlife protection.

Antonia Juhasz, will have just returned from the Gulf, meeting with impacted
communities and groups. She is Director of the Chevron Program at Global
Exchange, and the author of The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most powerful
Industry and What We Must Do to Stop It.
http://www.tyrannyofoil.org

Byron Encalade, President of the Louisiana Oysters Association, joining us
live from the Gulf to talk about local impacts on fishing and oystering communities.

Lindsay Imai, with Urban Habitat's Transportation Program, advocating for affordable, reliable, and racially and economically just public transit system in the Bay Area.

Carla Perez, Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project and Mobilization for Climate Justice West.

With MCs

Ana Orozco, Communities for a Better Environment
Dave Room, Bay Localize

*Join us for a discussion on:*
- the impacts of the disaster on Gulf Coast communities
- BP/Big Oil's handling and response the spill; as well as grassroots
responses to the spill
- root causes of the spill and the other disastrous impacts of Big Oil,
including in the Bay Area
- positive solutions we can organize for in the Bay Area to end our
dependence on fossil fuels and corporate capitalism
- how we can mobilize in the Bay Area to resist BP, Big Oil and their
environmental and climate pollution

*Also, before the teach-in:*
4:30 to 6:30pm: Nonviolent Direct Action Training (Same location: La Peña)
Prepare for upcoming mass actions to resist BP/Big Oil and for climate
justice (Sunday, August 29th will be a National/Bay Area mobilization-- Save
the date!)! A free and open to the public workshop on the basics of
nonviolent direct action, how it works and how to keep our power in
confrontations with authorities before, during and after actions. Please
come on time and stay for the whole time. Training sponsored by Mobilization
for Climate Justice West.

Teach-In Sponsored by:
Mobilization for Climate Justice West & The Center for Biological Diversity

MORE INFO:
*mcjbay@gmail.com
* OR
ActForClimateJustice.org/we