Peace Action of San Mateo County and San Mateo County Democracy for America event with Antonia Juhasz Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:30pm.
Peace Action of San Mateo County and San Mateo County Democracy for America host Antonia Juhasz, discussing the latest on Big Oil: "The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry -- And What We Must Do To Stop It."
Carpenter's Hall 1153 Chess Drive (off Foster City Boulevard) in Foster City.
Admission is $5-10 sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. Dessert, coffee and tea will be available. The hall is wheelchair accessible.
For more information: smpa@sanmateopeaceaction.org
Richmond Progressive Alliance Forum with Tom Butt & Antonia Juhasz Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7pm
Join the Richmond Progressive Alliance, Richmond City Council Member Tom Butt, and Global Exchange Chevron Program Director Antonia Juhasz for a public forum on Chevron's threats to close the Richmond refinery.
At the Richmond Progressive Alliance office 317 11th Street, Richmond 94801.
For more information: contact info@richmondprogressivealliance.net or 510-595-4661
Coalition for a Safe Environment Tyranny of Oil Paperback Release Event December 17, 2009 -- 6:30pm-8pm
The Coalition for a Safe Environment hosts Antonia Juhasz for a Tyranny of Oil book release event and discussion of the new Chevron Program at Global Exchange.
The Coalition For A Safe Environment (CFASE) is a community based non-profit environmental justice, public health, public safety and community economic development advocacy organization. CFASE was founded in April 2001 in the City of Los Angeles Port Harbor community of Wilmington. CFASE has members in over 25 cities in California. The Coalition For A Safe Environment's purpose is to eliminate, reduce and mitigate negative community impacts caused by International Trade Marine Ports, Freight Transportation Corridors, the Petroleum Industry and Energy Industry.
Location: 1601 N. Wilmington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
"In the spirit of the Oleo Strut, Under The Hood is a place for soldiers to gather, relax and speak freely about the wars and the military. Support services for soldiers include referrals for counseling, legal advice and information on GI rights."
"In the spirit of the Oleo Strut, Under The Hood is a place for soldiers to gather, relax and speak freely about the wars and the military. Support services for soldiers include referrals for counseling, legal advice and information on GI rights."
Location: 17 S. College Street Killeen, TX
Contact: Fran Hanlon fran.hanlon[at]gmail.com
Sponsored By: Global Exchange, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Code Pink Austin
Taking on Human Rights Abuses: Taking on Chevron Chevron Panel with guest, Kerry Kennedy December 10, 2009 - Noon-1:30pm
In honor of International Human Rights Day, a panel discussion:
Taking on Human Rights Abuses: Taking on Chevron.
A new powerful international campaign on Chevron presents an exciting new organizing model for corporate campaigners and human rights activists everywhere.The new Chevron Program at Global Exchange links Chevron affected communities across the U.S. and around the world to expose the true cost of Chevron and reign in the entire oil industry. Learn about the campaign and communities in struggle against Chevron in Nigeria, Burma, Kazakhstan, Ecuador, California, and elsewhere in defense of their human rights.
Kerry Kennedy, acclaimed human rights activist and author, daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy (Ecuador)
Antonia Juhasz, author, The Tyranny of Oil, Director, The Chevron Program, Global Exchange (The Chevron Program)
Paul Donowitz, Campaign Director, EarthRights International (Burma, Nigeria)
Kate Watters, Executive Director, Crude Accountability (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan)
Sowore Omoyele, Nigerian Human Rights Activist, publisher of SaharaReporters.com (Nigeria)
Location: The United States Capitol Building (between Constitution & Independence Avenues) http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/ Room SVC 212/210 (walk in the main entrance of the Capitol and down one flight of stairs) Washington, DC
Tyranny of Oil Release Tour Event with Yes Men and your favorite peace activists! Fundraiser for Iraq Veterans Against the War and NYC United for Peace and Justice December 8, 2009 -- 7pm
Global Exchange, The YES MEN, and the Manhattan Peace Center Invite you to a book launch party and fundraiser for Iraq Veterans Against the War and NYC United for Peace and Justice.
Enlightening, inspiring talk followed by food, drink, and a silent auction to get you started on your gift list!
Author, Antonia Juhasz, will speak about her book, just released in paperback: The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It, updated with a new preface: "Big Oil and the Obama Presidency."
Join author, Antonia Juhasz, Director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, Jose Vasquez, Executive Director, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and all your favorite NYC peace activists and hell-raisers! with a special appearance by The Yes Men!
We've got the bar all night and we get 5% of all bar sales, so come for the book release, and stay for the night!
Artwork, jewelry, gift certificates and more will be sold at a silent auction, so bring your checkbooks. Great gifts that will support the work of NYC-UFPJ!
SPACE IS LIMITED!
Buy advance tickets to confirm your spot with a donation to IVAW & NYC-UFPJ of $10 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds, but there isn't a lot of space).
Sponsored By: Global Exchange, Iraq Veterans Against the War, NY United for Peace and Justice
Tyranny of Oil Paperback Release Tour Event December 7, 2009 - Bus Boys & Poets - 6-8pm
Join Global Exchange and Iraq Veterans Against the War
for a discussion on war and oil, upon the new paperback release, updated with a new preface, of The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It.
With author, Antonia Juhasz, Director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange and Hassan Jumaa Awad al Assadi, President, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions.
This evening is a fundraiser for the Washington, DC Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Antonia and Hassan will be joined by Geoff Millard, Chair of the National Board of Directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Location: Bus Boys & Poets 1025 5th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001
Dan Hoyle's "Tings Dey Happen" Final Performances at Marines' Memorial Theatre November 20-29, 2009
Join us on Friday, Nov. 27 when Antonia Juhasz leads the Q & A period following the 8pm show
It's Nigeria, the "new middle east" of oil security: media-savvy warlords, pacifist militants, Africanized Texas oilmen, and prostitutes turned anti-Chevron activists.
Dan Hoyle, creator of the hit shows Circumnavigator and Florida 2004: The Big Bummer, tells the comic and profound story of Nigeria's oil madness in his new one-man show, Tings Dey Happen, based on Hoyle's year in Nigeria as a Fulbright scholar. Traveling alone through the swamps of the Niger Delta, he befriended militants, warlords, prostitutes, and diplomats. They all confront the audience with their stories of survival on the West African Oil Frontier.
NOW through November 29th Thu, Fri, Sat @ 8pm Sunday @ 2pm
Join us on Friday, Nov. 27 when Antonia Juhasz leads the Q & A period following the 8pm show
Click Here To Reserve Great Seats! For $5 off per ticket and a $5 donation to Global Exchange, please use the pass code "global" when purchasing tickets.
Marines Memorial Theatre 609 Sutter Street (at Mason St) San Francisco, CA 94102 Map
Located just two blocks from Union Square.
A short walk from the Powell Street BART station.
Parking is available at the Sutter-Stockton Garage and the Union Square Garage; both just two blocks from the theatre.
Tings Dey Happen trailer
San Francisco Green Festival "The Road To Copenhagen Climate Talks: A discussion on policy, politics, and people power." Friday, November 13th 2009 Noon San Francisco, CA GreenFestivals.org
November 13 Noon Main Mezzanine
From December 7 -- 18, the United Nations will host the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen and the stakes could not be higher. The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and this, the 15th Convention of the Parties (COP) is the defining moment in what the post-Kyoto climate regime will look like. A show-down is taking place between peoples' movements on the front lines of devastation seeking climate justice, corporations seeking to water-down the negotiations to nothing, and governments acting somewhere in between. Your time to act is now. Learn how with speakers discussing the science of climate change and what's at stake and on the table in Copenhagen, what the corporations want and are up to, the actions of the environmental and climate justice movements in the run-up-to and during the talks, and a local climate justice struggle in the Bay Area against our state's largest corporation—Chevron.
Sweet Crude San Francisco FREE Admission! (limited seating) October 18, 2009 Variety Screening Room
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 2:50pm: Stay for the panel discussion with film's Director Sandy Cioffi, Nigerian activist Suanu Bere, Professor Michael Watts who is featured in the film and Daniel Volman, Director of the African Security Research Project.
San Francisco, Variety Screening Room 582 Market Street - Map
This film gives one of the best historical contexts to the current conflict in the Niger Delta, where oil companies and the Nigerian government have left the region in abject poverty, created major environmental disasters and a history of human rights abuses.
"Good characters make good docs, and Cioffi is fortunate to have thoughtful men and funny, feisty women (and sometimes vice versa) to ornament a film that provides enough history to make sense and enough humanity to wash it down. Despite the utter destruction of their environment and the fact that mothers now have to describe to their children the animals that once ran free around their homes, a sense of despondency and/or resignation is absent from what Cioffi presents. There are plenty of reasons for dread; the speed with which the air quality rots the zinc roofs of the houses makes one shudder to think what it's doing to the inhabitants. But the mood is generally upbeat and optimistic, despite anyone's prognosis"
Lecture: Big Oil in the Age of Obama Wednesday, October 14th 2009 7pm Las Vegas, NV
On October 14, Antonia will be in Las Vegas at the College of Southern Nevada conducting a series of lectures and interviews. Full information here.
WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 14 - 7PM free and open to the public
Location: Nicholas J. Horn Theatre, Cheyenne Campus, 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas 89030
Sponsored By: Department of Political Science, College of Southern Nevada.
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco presents:
CRISIS AND HOPE In the Age of Obama
Presentation by Noam Chomsky
Professor Noam Chomsky, noted linguist, author and political analyst on U.S. economic and foreign policy.
with, Antonia Juhasz, Director of The Chevron Program at Global Exchange on oil and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Steve Williams, Co-Executive Director of POWER on the battle for health care reform.
Sunday, October 4, 2009 - 1:00-2:30pm First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco In the Sanctuary 1187 Franklin St San Francisco, CA 94109
Sponsored by UUs for Peace-SF and School of the Americas Watch-SF Discounted contribution rate for UU members only: Catered luncheon: Noon to 1:00 pm & Presentation: $20.00 Seniors & Students: $15.00 For Reservations, email: SOAWatchSF@aol.com (415) 776-4580
Petaluma Progressive Festival Sunday, September 20th 2009 Noon- 5:00pm Petaluma, CA www.progressivefestival.org
The 12th Annual Progressive Festival Sunday, September 20th, 12-5pm Featuring The San Francisco Mime Troupe's 50th Anniversary Performance
The Progressive Festival will mark its 12th anniversary Sunday, Sept. 20, 12noon-5pm, at Petaluma's Walnut park, with the San Francisco Mime Troupe celebrating its 50th anniversary season of political satire. This year's song and dance production, Too Big To Fail, is about the greed exploits of Wall Street.
Speakers on vital issues of our time include: Antonia Juhasz, author of The Tyranny of Oil, and other books; Michael Parenti, Author and one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts; Peter Phillips, SSU Professor and Director of Project Censored; Cris Osequera, Director of Youth Green Jobs, Sonoma Co.; George Bisharat, Hastings College of Law Professor; Carl Patrick, of local social justice group IMPACT; David Keller, Sonoma Co. environmental expert; Raquel Gomez and Oscar Orozco, update on immigrant rights campaign; Argelio Giron, MEChA National Coordinating Council member; and a speaker on Prop. 8 and same sex marriage.
Popular folk singer/songwriter Steve Seskin, will entertain with songs and wit; and Sahaj will provide the heartbeat rhythms of reggae. Tamales, rice, beans, other goodies and drinks will be available for purchase. Many social justice, environmental, labor, and community organizations with informational booths are the core of the Festival. They will continue the Festival's tradition of a lively exchange of ideas and the chance to network with progressives who are taking action in many arenas.
The event is produced by the Petaluma Progressives and is sponsored by KPFA 94.1 FM (kpfa.org), the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County, The Bohemian (bohemian.com) and the Committee for Immigrant Rights (immigrantrightssonoma.org), Sonoma County (peaceandjusticesonomaco.org). It takes place at Walnut Park, Petaluma Blvd South and D Street, downtown Petaluma. It is free to the public.
Organizations can reserve space by contacting the Petaluma Progressives. To reserve space, please send your check to:
The Petaluma Progressives, P.O. Box 445, Petaluma, CA 94953.
Location: Petaluma's Walnut Park corner of D Street and Petaluma Blvd., right in downtown Petaluma. Petaluma, CA
Dubbed, "the film Chevron doesn't want you to see," CRUDE is an award-winning documentary film that chronicles the epic battle to hold oil giant Chevron (formerly Texaco) accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon -- an environmental tragedy experts call "the Rainforest Chernobyl."
Centering on a $27 billion lawsuit filed by the indigenous people and campesinos who continue to suffer a severe public health crisis caused by Chevron's contamination, CRUDE is a high-stakes David vs. Goliath legal drama with 30,000 Amazon rainforest dwellers facing down the 5th largest corporation on the planet.
A victory for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs in the lawsuit will send shock waves through corporate boardrooms around the world, invigorating communities fighting against injustice by oil companies. The success of this campaign can change how the oil industry operates by sending a clear signal that they will be held financially liable for their abuses.
CRUDE is an exciting and powerful new film. It's also a powerful new tool in the struggle for justice in Ecuador. See Amazon Watch's CRUDE page.
MOBILIZE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE! CLEAN AIR FOR RICHMOND & THE BAY STOP OIL REFINERY EXPANSIONS CORPORATIONS OUT OF COPENHAGEN CLIMATE TALKS! Saturday, August 15, 11:30am Richmond BART, 16th St. & Macdonald Ave., Richmond, CA
Imagine: What if, on all seven continents, there were young people equipped to globally broadcast pivotal stories about the climate crisis?
What if these young people were empowered to amplify disenfranchised voices and propel the principle of "Survival" to the forefront of the political debate?
Well this is Project Survival Media (PSM).
In the lead up to the UN Climate Negotiations, we are assembling a global network of youth journalists who will use video, photography, and blogs to report from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
What can you do? Help launch this epic project by attending the Project Survival Media Launch Party.
Come enjoy a night of: - Local DJ's - Drinks - Live Art - A Silent Auction - And more...
Adrienne Maree Brown the Executive Director of The Ruckus Society and Antonia Juhasz, Director of the Chevron Campaign at Global Exchange will be speaking at the Benefit.
We have also secured artists who will do some live art. Their pieces will then be up for silent auction. All proceeds go to benefit Project Survival Media.
The Mobilization for Climate Justice invites you, your staff, your summer interns, your volunteers, and anyone else you'd like to invite, to a Brown Bag Lunch:
WHEN: Monday, July 27, 2009 - Noon to 1:30 pm WHERE: Bay Localize 436 14th St., 2nd Fl. Conf. Room (just above 12th St. BART) Oakland, CA 94612 Tel: (510) 834-0420
Learn about The Mobilization for Climate Justice and how you and your group can participate in the upcoming Day of Action in Richmond at the Chevron Richmond Refinery on Saturday, August 15.
Speakers:
Antonia Juhasz (Director, The Chevron Program, Global Exchange): on Chevron
Payal Parekh (Climate Campaigner, International Rivers): on the Climate Crisis and the road to Copenhagen
Hilary Moore (Rising Tide): on The Mobilization for Climate Justice and the August 15 actions.
Sandy Saeteurn, Laotian Organizing Project (LOP) Lead Organizer, Richmond
We Want You, Your Staff, Your Interns, and Anyone else you can think of to join us for this unprecedented organizing effort!
Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, and Greenpeace, on behalf of The Mobilization for Climate Justice invite you, your staff, your summer interns, and anyone else you'd like to invite, to a Brown Bag Lunch:
WHEN: Thursday, July 23, 2009 - Noon to 1:30 pm WHERE: Global Exchange 2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94110 415-575-5545
Learn about The Mobilization for Climate Justice and how you and your group can participate in the upcoming Day of Action in Richmond at the Chevron Richmond Refinery on Saturday, August 15.
Speakers:
Antonia Juhasz (Director, The Chevron Program, Global Exchange): on Chevron
Ana Orozco (invited) (Community Organizer, Communities for a Better Environment): on the Richmond Refinery
Payal Parekh (Climate Campaigner, International Rivers): on the Climate Crisis and the road to Copenhagen
Hilary Moore (Rising Tide): on The Mobilization for Climate Justice and the August 15 actions.
We Want You, Your Staff, Your Interns, and Anyone else you can think of to join us for the unprecedented organizing effort!
