IDEX is proud to announce that we have become an ally member of the Mobilization for Climate Justice (MCJ). MCJ builds our community-based organizations, activist groups and networks to lead a global climate justice movement to confront the root causes of climate change at home, while advancing community priorities and self-determination pathways for just and sustainable economies.

We hope you will be able to join with us and MCJ for nonviolent direct action to “Make Big Oil Pay” on August 29-30. More details and videos are below.

VIDEO RELEASE:
Teach-In: BP DISASTER & BIG OIL, WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON, WHAT IT MEANS & WHAT WE CAN DO

One of the most insightful and compelling events explaining and analyzing of the the BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster is now available as an online “Video Teach-In.” On Tuesday July 20, 2010, on the 3-Month Gulf Disaster Anniversary, Mobilization for Climate Justice West organized a public Teach-In to a standing-room-only crowd of community members. The release of this “Video Teach-in” is timed to educate the public and to urge people to take action, including the mobilization and nonviolent direct action to “Make Big Oil Pay” on August 29-30. Key presentations from that teach-in are now available as videos on Mobilization for Climate Justice West’s YouTube channel at: youtube.com/ClimateJusticeWEST.

The five-segment video teach-in features:
Antonia Juhasz, leading oil industry expert and critic, just returned from the Gulf, meeting with impacted communities and groups. She is Director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, and the author of The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most powerful Industry and What We Must Do to Stop It. Juhasz has been featured on Democracy Now, written for the Huffington Post and is writing a new book on the impact and meaning of the BP disaster.
VIDEO: Antonia Juhasz (1 of 5)
VIDEO: Antonia Juhasz (2 of 5)

Byron Encalade is the President of the Louisiana Oyster Association and a leader for the African-American oyster fishermen in the region. Oil infrastructure has led to the erosion of the wetlands that oysters depend on, which were previously damaged further when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Since the BP disaster, Encalade has been a leading spokes person for impacted communities on the Gulf Coast; including being interviewed by PBS and the New York Times.
VIDEO: Byron Encalade (3 of 5)

Carla Pérez is the Program Coordinator for The Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, which provides analysis and facilitates action around the global ecological crisis among organizers from urban Bay Area organizations working for economic and racial justice. Carla Pérez was a featured speaker at the opening plenary of the United States Social Forum.
VIDEO: Carla Pérez (4 of 5)
VIDEO: Carla Pérez (5 of 5)

For more details contact: mcjbay@gmail.com.