2013: Oil & Water
Community Forums
May 23 - Aug 22
Antonia Juhasz
Recorded at the Troupe on May 23, 2013
Our guest speaker from the May 23 forum is Antonia Juhasz, a leading oil and energy industry analyst, author, journalist, and activist. She is the author of three books: "The Bush Agenda"; "The Tyranny of Oil;" and "Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill." Juhasz is currently a Fellow of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley where she focusing on the role of oil and natural gas in the war with Afghanistan. Her latest articles appeared in The Atlantic, CNN and Harper's Magazine. Follow Juhasz on twitter.
Andrés Soto
Recorded at the Troupe on June 13, 2013
Andrés Soto is a Richmond, California native, who has devoted his life to being a community organizer and activist fighting inequality and injustice in and around Richmond. Soto has been deeply involved in trying to organize Richmond communities against the Chevron refinery and to ensure that local residents get proper compensation for the destruction caused to their community and health. Soto will be joining us to share about his experiences in Richmond with the Chevron refinery.
Cecile Pineda
Recorded at the Troupe on June 27, 2013
Cecile Pineda, author of "Devil's Tango: How I learned the Fukushima Step by Step", will be talking to the SF Mime Troupe and their friends on June 27 about the nuclear industry, and about how the energy and the weaponry aspects are inextricably linked. At the same time, she will be addressing the harms to the enviroment that the industry presents in terms of soil, water, and air contamination through leakage in nuclear waste sites; and permanent contamination to soils of countries where DU has been used by The US and its NATIO surrogates. Read her Blog, follow her on Twitter or LIKE her on Facebook.
How Fukushima affects you (pdf)
Get Active (pdf)
Panel: Transition Ukiah Valley, Mendocino Environmental Center, Fukushima Response, SOLLV (Willits Bypass), Parents/Veterans for Peace, Occupy Ukiah, El Sol Bilingue, Mendo FreeSkool, SF Mime Troupe
Aired on KMEC Radio - July 19, 2013
Listen to part two (MP3)
Creating network of support - action, Increasing public participation, Avoiding burnout,
Common goals, mission, intent (e.g., sustainable community),
Next projects
Speakers: Folks who tabled at the show that day
July 27, 2013
@ Live Oak Park - Shattuck Ave. & Berryman St., Berkeley Dan Bacher & Francisco Dominguez
Aug 9, 2013
6.00pm Potluck / 7.00pm Discussion
Location: Southside Park Cohousing at the common house, behind 440 T St., Sacramento
Come hear experts in the fight against the "peripheral tunnel" proposal to ship water south around the Delta, for possible use in fracking, among other things.
Dan Bacher, Editor of the Fish Sniffer magazine, writes investigative articles for numerous publications about fisheries, water and the environment, including the battles to restore Central Valley and Klamath River salmon and to stop the peripheral tunnels and fracking. He is a board member of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) and Water for Fish.
Francisco Dominguez, photographer/printmaker, will provide an indigenous world perspective on the current environmental crisis, including fracking and the peripheral tunnels.
Speaker TBD
Time TBA on Aug 17, 2013
Location TBAPlease RSVP: 415-285-1717 / sfmtinsolidarity@gmail.com
Adam Zuckerman
7:00p-9:00p on Aug 22, 2013
@ SFMT Studio - 855 Treat AveAdam Zuckerman comes to Amazon Watch with a background in human rights advocacy. He spent years organizing with activist diaspora communities, and most recently worked for American Jewish World Service, an international human rights nonprofit. Adam speaks fluent Spanish and has worked in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Adam works on Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign, a movement to hold Chevron accountable for its legacy of contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon. For more information and to take action visit truecostofchevron.com.