After Service this Sunday, Nov 12, 11:30-12:30
Pastor Laurie will do a short slide presentation of what she learned at the Climate Reality Leadership Training last month with Al Gore. Lora Jo Foo will give an update on the No-Coal-in-Oakland issues, especially about their campaign to get the coal interests to dismiss their lawsuit against Oakland.
Ms. Foo is a retired labor organizer and attorney, nature photographer, author, and climate justice activist. She devoted seven years to organizing workers in the garment and hotel industries, and litigated for 15 years representing unions and individual workers in sweatshop industries. Because the impact of climate change is greatest on people of color and low-income families, she has devoted the next decade to keeping our earth habitable for our children and their children. She has worked towards bringing community choice energy for the East Bay, led a ballot measure campaign that successfully banned fracking in San Benito County, and in 2016 helped lead the successful campaign in her hometown of Oakland that stopped the building of what would have been the largest coal export terminal on the West Coast.
