YASUNI MAN Panel Discussion - live from Los Angeles
Yasuni Man Live from Los Angeles | Season 1 | 2018
Following the movie screening we will be hosting a panel discussion with movement leaders on the impacts of oil drilling on rainforest biodiversity and indigenous peoples, as well as its connection to fossil-fuel-polluted communities and climate chaos in California and beyond.
SPEAKERS:
Ryan Patrick Killackey, Producer, Director, Writer, Cinematographer, YASUNI MAN; Tom Smith - Founding Director, UCLA Center for Tropical Research, Monic Uriarte - member of the coalition Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling (STAND-Los Angeles), Grandma Gloria Arellanes - Elder of the Tongva Tribe
Moderator - Leila Salazar-López - Executive Director of Amazon Watch
California's oil policy matters for the Amazon. Nearly 70% of Ecuador's crude is exported to California refineries. The Trump administration is dismantling the EPA and expanding offshore drilling in the Pacific Ocean. Join us on June 14th to tell Governor Jerry Brown it's his last chance to plan for a managed decline of fossil fuel production!