December 7th: Tell Chevron “Our Climate Is Not Your Business!”

On the first day of international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, join the Mobilization for Climate Justice at the headquarters of one of the world’s worst climate polluters to tell them “our climate is not your business!”

When: Monday, December 7th, 7am

Where: Chevron Corporate Headquarters
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, CA
How to get to Chevron’s headquarters

To participate in non-violent civil disobedience at this action, come to the orientation/action planning meeting on December 6th (4-7pm) and attend a non-violent direct action training if you are new to civil disobedience:

Why Chevron?

November 30th

Join the Mobilization for Climate Justice West for two days of protest and civil disobedience on the eve of and on the first day of the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen:

N30: Justin Herman Plaza, SF 11:30am

On Monday, November 30th (N30), the 10th anniversary of the global justice movement’s successful non-violent shut-down of the WTO, join the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, a coalition of Bay Area groups working for climate change, for a national day of action for climate justice. There will be safe and fun spaces for children, parents and everyone else who cannot be too near civil disobedience.

When: 11:30am, November 30th (Remember 11/30 at 11:30)

Where: Meet at Justin Herman Plaza and go from there to a mass action at Bank of America

On N30,  groups will expose some of San Francisco’s worst climate criminals  demanding that they stop financing climate change and standing in the way of climate solutions. The following targets have been chosen for the national day of action: Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Chevron, British Petroleum, American Electric Power. The San Francisco action will target Bank of America, which is the 3rd biggest financier of the oil & gas industry in the world and the second biggest financier of coal in the U.S. We support affinity groups organizing autonomous actions against the other targets.  Click here for more details on targets.

Join MCJ for non-violent direct action trainings, teach-ins, and action planning meetings in the lead up to N30.

International Forum on Globalization Presents:

Don’t Miss Tings Dey Happen now playing at Marines Memorial Theatre through November  29, 2009

Dan Hoyle’s
TINGS DEY HAPPEN

Marines Memorial Theatre November 5-29th

609 Sutter St
San Francisco, CA 94102 - Map

(Close to the Powell St. BART station)

Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun  at 8pm

For Tickets go to: http://www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com/

Dan recently returned from touring his award-winning one-man show his whirlwind five-city tour in Nigeria  sponsored by the U.S. State Department. After select shows, Dan will engage in a rare Q and A about his experience touring the show in Nigeria and how the show was received.

What Critics have said about Tings Dey Happen:

“A smart, engrossing, funny, challenging and moving look at… Nigeria’s bloody oil politics….an aptly complex, hard-hitting piece that paints memorably touching and entertaining figures.” –Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

The show, based on Hoyle’s year in Nigeria studying oil politics on a Fulbright Scholarship, will travel to five cities in two weeks this October as part of the State Department’s public diplomacy focus on anti-corruption issues.

Developed with and directed by solo performance master Charlie Varon TINGS DEY HAPPEN is a riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year Hoyle spent exploring the West African oil frontier. The Niger Delta has been targeted as the “new Middle East” of oil security and can be dangerous place. Hoyle traveled alone around the swamps, befriending militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. In this time of rising energy politics, and as witnessed by the State Department’s invitation, the show remains, if anything, even more relevant than when it premiered in 2007.

West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice and Action!

September 18-21, 2009
Richmond, CA

http://climateconvergence.org/west

Email:
mcjbay@gmail.com

Phone: 510-550-2836

We invite you to join community leaders of Richmond, CA and activists from around the country to spend 3 days learning, building, & preparing for action!

Corporations like Chevron want us to believe that climate change can be solved by “turning stuff off more,” but we know that climate change is rooted in an unjust economic system controlled by corporations at the expense of people and planet.  Climate justice means addressing these root causes and creating positive alternatives; localized, low-carbon communities and economies.

The 2009 West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice is a three-day training and movement-building convergence followed by a collective action on Monday, September 21st.  Join us to learn about climate change and climate politics, support local communities in their ongoing fights for climate justice, & build a stronger Climate Justice movement on the West Coast leading up to the international days of action on October 24th and November 30th and international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December.

Trainings and workshops at the convergence will cover:

• Political education around climate justice
• Practical sustainability skills (traditional knowledge, local food systems, solar energy, etc)
• Direct action
• Media messaging
• Organizing and campaigning
• Movement building.

See the attached schedule draft, or check out climateconvergence.org/west for the most updated!

The Convergence will highlight the Richmond community’s climate justice struggle against Chevron.  For more details, see http://climateconvergence.org/west/background/about-chevrons-richmond-refinery/

This Convergence is part of an annual series of climate camps all over the world.  This year there will be camps in the UK, Australia, France, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, and the United States.  The Convergence is also the second in a series of events organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, a network of environmental and social justice organizations organizing to generate “street heat” around climate justice in the lead-up to the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December.

Registration is limited to 200, so apply today!  For application and detailed schedule, download the attachments or visit http://climateconvergence.org/west.

Sponsored by the Mobilization for Climate Justice-West: Art in Action, Asian-Pacific Environmental Network, Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice, Bay Localize, Burmese American Democratic Association, Communities for a Better Environment, Contra Costa Greens, Direct Action to Stop the War, Earth First!, Environmental Justice & Climate Change Initiative, Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity, Forest Ethics, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Global Exchange, Global Justice and Ecology Project, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Greenpeace, Headrush, International Forum on Globalization, International Rivers, Justice in Nigeria Now!,  Movement Generation, Pacific Environment, Poor Magazine, Rainforest Action Network, Richmond Mayor’s Taskforce on Environmental Justice and Health, Richmond Progressive Alliance, Ruckus Society, Rising Tide North America, Solidarity, West County Toxics Coalition, Youth in Focus, and 350.org

Sweet Crude Playing in NYC through August 20 as part of DocuWeeks

Monday August 17 -Thursday, August 20, 2009

Two shows a day 3:30pm and 7:15pm

IFC Center

323 Sixth Ave at W. 3rd St  Map

New York

Sweet Crude was selected for the International Documentary Association’s 2009 DocuWeeks™ theatrical showcase. This program was created to provide week-long theatrical runs in LA and NY, which are required to qualify for Oscar nomination. Only 18 features and 10 shorts were selected. IDA considers them “some of the best groundbreaking documentary films from around the world.”

Click here for more info and tickets

Screening schedule:
Fri 8/14 3:30 PM & 9:50 PM
Sat 8/15 12:00 PM & 5:15 PM
Sun 8/16 1:30 PM & 7:15 PM
Mon 8/17 3:30 PM & 9:50 PM
Tue 8/18 12:00 PM & 5:15 PM
Wed 8/19 1:30 PM & 7:15 PM
Thu 8/20 1:30 PM & 7:15 PM

Sweet Crude is the story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta – the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since the filmmakers met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

Check out the film’s web site: www.sweetcrudemovie.com

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Protest Chevron – Join the Mobilization for Climate Justice!

August 15th, 2009

Richmond BART (16th St & MacDonald Avenue)

11:30am Festival/Rally, followed by 1pm March on Chevron oil refinery

Organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice – West
Phone/email: 510 550 2836, mcjbay@gmail.com
Website: http://actforclimatejustice.org/west

Join us to protest

• Chevron’s polluting oil refinery in Richmond

• Chevron and oil industry expansions  – killing people and the planet for profit

• Chevron and Big Oil standing in the way of solutions to climate change

Join us to support

• A cap on the type of crude Chevron can refine in Richmond

• Local communities in struggle against Chevron

• Environmental justice, public health, and worker safety

• Meaningful climate change solutions that embrace sustainable renewable alternatives and green jobs

We will gather near the Richmond BART station for a festival/rally at 11:30am on August 15th, with live music, performance, and food.  At 1pm, we will begin marching towards the Chevron oil refinery, where there will be the opportunity to participate in non-violent civil disobedience against the refinery.

This action marks the launch of the Mobilization for Climate Justice whose goal is to empower community-based activists and networks to lead a global movement in confronting the root causes of climate change at home, while defining self-determination pathways for a new energy economy.  In the greater Bay Area, the Mobilization for Climate Justice West is organizing a series of demonstrations and educational events to generate “street heat” around climate justice in the lead-up to the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December.

Mobilization for Climate Justice West is a collaboration of:
Art in Action,Asian-Pacific Environmental Network, Bay Localize, Communities for a Better Environment,Direct Action to Stop the War,Earth First!, Environmental Justice & Climate Change Initiative,Forest Ethics, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives,Global Exchange, Global Justice and Ecology Project, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Greenpeace, Headrush, International Forum on Globalization, Justice in Nigeria Now!, Movement Generation, Rainforest Action Network,Richmond Progressive Alliance,Ruckus Society, Rising Tide North America, West County Toxics Coalition, 350.org

For more event dates in your city go to: TyrannyOfOil.org

Monday October 13, 2008 8:30pm

“Tyranny of Oil” Book Launch Party and a fundraiser for Richmond Community Lawsuit

Communities for a Better Environment, Earthjustice, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Amazon Watch, Oil Change Int’l, Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, and more, invite you to support the Richmond Community fight Chevron’s Dirty Crude Refinery Expansion!

Dalva Bar

3121 16th Street

San Francisco, CA 94110 Map

October 15, 2008 through October 17, 2008 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival

Brava Theater Center

2781 24th Street

San Francisco Map

The 3rd Annual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival is an three-day series of film screenings, post-screening panel discussions, and related events all focusing on the role and effects of corporations in our lives, communities, and culture.

**Oct. 16 specifically features the JINN sponsored film shorts and panel about Chevron in Nigeria and the Amazon at 7:15pm**

The Naked Option: A Last Resort

A work in progress by Candace Schermerhorn

credit: Candace Schermerhorn

Join: Justice in Nigeria Now for a 20 minute screening of The Naked Option: A Last Resort a film about 600 Nigerian women who peacefully protested Chevron’s human rights and environmental abuses with only the threat of publicly stripping naked– a serious cultural taboo. The film will be followed by a panel discussion about the true cost of oil in Nigeria and what Chevron should do about it.

Panelists include: Filmmaker Candace Schermerhorn, Nigerian activist Ayo Ajisebutu and Cindy Cohn, attorney in the upcoming litigation happening this fall in San Francisco against Chevron – Bowoto v. Chevron

When: Thursday, August 7, 2008 7pm

Where: First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall305 N California Ave

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Map

Contact: Sarah Dotlich, Coordinator at JINN for more information

sarah(at)justiceinnigerianow.org or 415-575-5521

www.justiceinnigerianow.org

Co-Sponsored by The Peninsula Peace and Justice Center and Global Exchange and Priority Africa Network