Indigenous Resistance To Energy Infrastructure & The Keystone XL Pipeline With Winona LaDuke, Lyana Monterrey, And Victor Menott
Today 6:00p to 9:00p La Peña Cultural Center-Berkeley, CA
Winona LaDuke Honor the Earth Native American author/activist will show a new short film of the Lakota and Anishinaabe peoples' horse rides along routes of proposed pipelines that would cross North American prairies to carry Canadian crude oil/tar sands. Lyana Monterrey Pittsburg Ethics Council/Pittsburg Defense Council Co-founder of local community coalitions will talk about the proposed WesPac project in Pittsburg, CA, a massive crude oil storage and transfer facility to feed ultra-dirty oil to Bay Area's five refineries and export across the Pacific. Victor Menotti International Forum on Globalization IFG Executive Director will share visualized data from the recent report, Billionaires' Carbon Bomb: The Koch Brothers and the Keystone XL Pipeline, plus interactive mapping of the Kochs' influence network, known the Kochtopus. Plus poetry and spoken word from Pittsburg Youth Suggested Donation $10-$25... No one turned away for lack of funds.