Saturday, March 1st 2014 Noon
Richmond, CA

From NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) to NOPE (Not On Planet Earth):
Stopping Fossil Fuel Disaster
Starting Fossil Free Solutions;
Lac-Mégantic, Québec to Richmond to Pittsburg, CA

Sat. March 1, 12 Noon
Bobby Bowen Progressive Center
1021 Macdonald Ave, Richmond CA
(at Harbor Way, near Richmond BART)

Come to a lively teach-in with:
Marilaine Savard, spokesperson for the Citizens Committee of Lac-Mégantic, Québec, site of the July 6, 2013, fracked-crude rail cars exploded, destroying the center of the town and claiming 47 lives.

Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, part of the Richmond Progressive Alliance who transformed Richmond from an oil company town to a leading city standing up to Wall St bank foreclosures and Chevron corruption and pollution, including seeking damages for the August 6, 2013 refinery explosion and fire that resulted in 15,000 going to the hospital.

Antonia Juhasz, leading oil industry expert, policy-analyst, award winning journalist, and author of three books: including ‘The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must do to Stop It.’

George Monterey, a grassroots community leader with Pittsburg Ethics Council fighting the Wespac crude mega-transfer-storage facility in Pittsburg, CA to supply expanding Bay Area refineries with fracked and tar sands crude oil by rail, pipeline and tanker.

Pennie Opal Plant, Idle No More SF Bay Solidarity. She is from from Richmond, CA. “Idle No More calls on all people to join in a peaceful revolution, to honor Indigenous sovereignty, and to protect the land and water”.

MC:Andres Soto , KPFA’s Morning Mix host and Communities for a Better Environment’s Richmond organizer.

Fossil Fuels are a disaster; from fracking and tar sands extraction; to transport in rail cars, pipelines and tankers; to refining; to burning; to climate change-caused drought, heatwaves, fires, floods, and super-storms are wrecking our communities and planet.
* How can we move from “Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) to “Not On Planet Earth” (NOPE)?
* How can we STOP fossil fuel disasters and START fossil-fuel free solutions?

Sponsored by Sunflower Alliance. Cosponsored by Richmond Progressive Alliance, Idle No More SF Bay Solidarity, Bay Area 350.org, and Communities for a Better Environment.

Join the fb event page and Invite friends.
This is one of a series of events featuring Marilaine Savard visiting from Lac-Mégantic, Québec in support of Bay Area effort to stop fossil fuel disasters–also in Martinez (Wed Feb. 26) and Pittsburg (Mon Feb 24). More info at:
Sunflower-Alliance.org

Location:
Bobby Bowen Progressive Center (at Harbor Way, near Richmond BART)
1021 Macdonald Ave
Richmond, CA

Contact:
David Solnit
dsolnit [at] gmail.com

Sponsored By:
Sponsored by Sunflower Alliance. Cosponsored by Richmond Progressive Alliance, Idle No More SF Bay Solidarity, Bay Area 350.org, and Communities for a Better Environment.