BP Spill & Big Oil: Teach-in and Training July 20, 2010

7-9pm: Join us for a teach in on:
- Impact of the disaster on Gulf communities and eco-systems.
- BP/big oil's handling and grassroots responses to the spill
- Real causes of the spill and the other disastrous impacts of big oil, including in the Bay Area.
- How we can mobilize in the Bay Area to resist BP, big oil and their environmental and climate pollution.
- Positive solutions we can organize for in the Bay Area to end our dependence on fossil fuels and corporate capitalism.

4:30 to 6:30pm: Nonviolent Direct Action Training: Same location (La Pena), before Teach-in:
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