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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday August 17th at 6pm for a panel on frontline resistance to 
 fossil fuel finance featuring Juan Mancias, James Hiatt, and Mary 
 Mijeres.\n\nWe’re living in challenging times with an escalating climate 
 disaster devestating communities from Texas and Louisiana to Richmond, CA. 
 Few institutions are as responsible for these crisis as Wall Street and Big 
 Insurance companies. We’re also living in a time where large numbers of 
 people have taken to the streets to confront those responsible for these 
 crises.\n\nThis panel will discuss the role of major financial institutions 
 in providing loans,investments and insurance to fossil fuel companies 
 destroying communities from the Gulf South to Richmond, CA, talk about the 
 resistance to these companies.\nRemote viewing: We’ll also be live 
 streaming the event on the Green and Red Podcast's YouTube Page. RSVP at 
 the attached link to get the link. \n\nSpeakers to include:\n\nJuan Mancias 
 is the Tribal Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Born in 
 Dimmitt, TX, and raised in Plainview, Juan is the eldest born to a lineage 
 of hereditary chiefs of the Carrizo Comecrudo. Juan has worked alongside 
 the Sierra Club, protecting prairie dogs, organized marches against the Dos 
 Republicos Coal mine, and initiated two inter-tribal organizations that are 
 still viable and thriving today.\n\nCurrently, he is building resistance to 
 the fossil fuel industry and border wall construction, organizing efforts 
 to assist asylum refugees, and reclaiming and protecting his tribe’s 
 ancestral lands.\n\nJames Hiatt has more than a decade of firsthand 
 experience in the petrochemical industry, he understands the tough choices 
 many workers face—trying to make a living while dealing with the impacts 
 these industries have on health and the environment. Born and raised in 
 Lake Charles, Louisiana, his deep connection to the community inspired him 
 to seek a better way forward. In 2023, he founded For a Better Bayou, a 
 nonprofit focused on helping Southwest Louisiana shift away from 
 extraction-based industries toward a more sustainable, community-focused 
 economy.\n\nMary Mijares is a first-generation immigrant born in the 
 Philippines and raised in Richmond, CA. As a campaigner for Amazon Watch, 
 Mary seeks to uplift the demands and support the resistance of Indigenous 
 organizations across the Amazon basin in international campaigns that 
 challenge the fossil fuel industry and its financiers.\n\nEvent hosted by 
 Stop Billionaire Summer, the Green and Red Podcast and Gulf South Fossil 
 Finance Hub\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/09/18878798.php
SUMMARY:Panel: Frontline Resistance to Fossil Fuel Finance From the Gulf South to Richmond, CA.
LOCATION:Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists•1606 Bonita Ave, Berkeley, 
 CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/09/18878798.php
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