[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Richmond/Chevron NVDA: Bay Area brings the heat!

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>From: R. Miles Mendenhall <miles_mendenhall at hotmail.com>
>Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:08 PM
>Subject: [SonomaGreens] Richmond/Chevron NVDA: Bay Area brings the heat!
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>David is a premier NVDA strategist, actionist and  THE Street Puppet builder in Anti-Corporate Globalization and Social Justice efforts since the eighties. Sibling to Rebecca and Daniel (others? Not sure.) He's an East Bay local. This should prove to be big. If you participate!
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>Subject: Bay Area brings the heat!
>From: organizers at 350.org
>Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:33:06 +0000
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>This summer two powerful forces, 350BayArea.org and the environmental justice groups organizing in Richmond, California, are coming together and taking action in Northern California to stop climate chaos and move towards a just, renewable region and world.
>350BayArea.org and the Bay Area climate movement brought 5,000 people together for Forward on Climate on February 17th, making it the biggest climate mobilization in Northern California history and the largest in the US after the 40,000 people at the national rally in DC.
>Environmental justice and community groups who organize in the shadow of the Chevron Richmond oil refinery, the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the entire state, have stood up to Chevron and won an amazing series of victories that have broken the 100 year cycle of Chevron running Richmond as a “company town.” These victories have included stopping Chevron’s dirty crude refinery expansion project, and the Richmond Progressive Alliance winning elections of the mayor and city council members in spite of millions spent by Chevron.
>Earlier this month the Contra Costa Times revealed that Chevron and the other four Bay Area refineries were already refining tar sands oil from Canada brought to the Bay Area by rail and that they want more! On August 3rd, the anniversary of the big refinery fire last year, this powerful alliance is bringing together a mass mobilization in Richmond to stand up to Chevron's pollution and their drive to refine more dirty tar sands. 
>Can you be there? Click here to join: joinsummerheat.org/bay/
>The festival resistance may include a parade of sunflowers, and here's why. At one of our early meetings, a young local urban farming organizer from Richmond described his vision of people marching through the streets to the Chevron Refinery, carrying hundreds of sunflowers aloft and then planting sunflower seeds or starts (sunflowers can help de-toxify soil, making it a good symbol for removing Chevrons toxins) at the refinery when we arrive. When I saw him last Saturday with a group of high school kids who had taken over an abandoned lot in Richmond/San Pablo and were transforming it into another urban garden, he said he had bought 1000 sunflower seeds and that we would plant them together soon.
>This event has incredible potential to bring together thousands on the doorstep of the largest climate polluter in the state, and to build the movement to stop climate chaos. To realize that potential we need you. You can participate in the march and rally with no risk of arrest, or for those who choose to, there will an option of nonviolent direct action or civil disobedience.
>Click here to sign up -- and once you do, can you also do at least one of these three things?
>1) Spread the word: Can you invite your community, network, friends, co-workers, fellow students and family? You can start by forwarding this email with a note from you, and a follow up phone call or meeting goes a long way -- we'll need everyone who can pitching in in every way they can to make this work
>2) Get our message on BART: Laurie from our ambitious, creative Outreach Committee writes, “We are trying a new form of outreach.   We have decided to advertise our regional Summer Heat mobilization on 14  BART stations for 2 weeks prior to the action.  By putting mini billboards up in Bay Area transportation hubs, we hope to broaden our base beyond our usual networks."
>We are over halfway to being able to fund this project -- can you help us get our message out on BART?   Click here to donate to fund BART billboards: 350bayarea.nationbuilder.com/donate
>3) Participate in nonviolent direct action: Can you join us in heeding the “Summer Heat” call to action and risking arrest? We will plan a peaceful, well-organized effective nonviolent action, with lots of training to prepare, and legal support to make sure everyone is taken care of. 
>*Training Teach-in for anyone interested in supporting or participating nonviolent direct action, we are preparing a series of trainings before the action. We are still in the process of setting trainings up in the Bay Area and we may be able to send a trainer to your town if you have a group of 20 or more who would like to join. Check joinsummerheat.org/bay/ for the schedule.
>* Form a Group to participate in the action: Organize an "affinity group" of people who will participate in (or support those who do) nonviolent direct action on August 3 from your organization, your friends, family, community, congregation, union, school, neighborhood, etc. More info on affinity groups here.
>This is an opportunity for truly transformative action, and I hope you can join us in any way you can.
>David Solnit
>Bay Area Keystone Action Council
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>PS - Read more on these links to see the amazing work of some of our partner organizations; Richmond Progressive Alliance, Communities for a Better Environment, and Asian Pacific Environmental Alliance.
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>Source:
>"Canadian tar sands crude heads to Bay Area refineries" Contra Costa Times, June 1st, 2013
>www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23366257/canadian-tar-sands-crude-heads-bay-area-refineries
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