FREE tickets here using this code: AMAZONWATCHGF13
Amazon Watch is honored to be an NGO partner of the Green Festival in San Francisco this weekend, November 9-10, 2013 at the SF Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street (at Brannan). We invite you to spend the weekend with us for free.
The Green Festival is the nation’s premier sustainability event hosting leaders in the social justice and environmental community including Amy Goodman, John Trudell, and John Perkins. It also features a sustainable beer and wine garden, live cooking demos featuring delicious beverages and cuisine, a yoga pavilion and a dedicated kids’ area for learning about easy and fun ways to incorporate green at a young age, plus the nation’s largest and most diverse Green Marketplace, featuring hundreds of eco-friendly businesses, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations, including Amazon Watch.
Stop by our booth (#568 near back entrance) and don’t miss Amazon Watch Program Director, Leila Salazar-López, who will be speaking alongside other powerful women and community leaders on two Saturday panels.
12 pm on Stage A – Mama’s Rising: Creating Healthy Families and an Equitable World
Joan Blades (MoveOn.org/MomsRising.org, mother of 2), Leila Salazar-López (Amazon Watch, mother of 2); Gingi Allen (The Art of Mothering, mother of 2); Corrine Van Hook (Bay Localize, mother of 3)
Mothers cultivate and nurture new life. They are also some of the mightiest organizers, often quietly holding the center of our movements for social and environmental transformation. It’s a tough balancing act. Acclaimed national leaders discuss what is needed to sustain powerful women, recognize their brilliance and harness their fierce love – the future may depend on it.
4 pm on Stage A – From Richmond to Ecuador: Fossil Fuels vs. Community Courage
Moderator: Andrés Soto (Communities for a Better Environment), Gayle McLaughlin (Mayor of Richmond), Doria Robinson (Urban Tilth), Leila Salazar-López (Amazon Watch)
Communities across the world are standing up to big oil. Their artful activism and relentless courage of frontlines communities benefits us all. The struggles to hold Chevron accountable in Richmond and Ecuador are gaining ground. Keeping oil in the ground and out of the sky may ultimately be the linchpin to our survival.
For more info, see the full Event Guide.
Get your FREE tickets today! Register online here using this code: AMAZONWATCHGF13
See you this weekend!
