Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Impending Resource Wars:
Opportunities for Education, Action, and Community Building
with the Washington Peace Center

In the next several months, Mike and Eda Uca-Dorn of the Washington Peace Center (WPC) will be leading WPC facilitation, sponsorship, and participation in local education, action and community building opportunities relating to and connecting the issues of peak oil, climate change, and the impending resource wars.

It is our hope that following this educational campaign, a WPC working group will be formed- that is that interested WPC members will join together in a commitment to:

• Help Washington, DC become a healthier, saner, more sustainable city in the transition to carbon neutrality;
• Participate in the creation of community mechanisms to respond to the looming energy crisis, and;
• Resist by word, political action, and personal deed current and future wars due to destabilizing factors such as the symptoms of climate change and wars for oil.

U.S. African Command- rejected by African and North American stakeholders as a ploy for U.S. oil interests- will become fully operational on October 1st.  As such, the events in October will mainly focus on AFRICOM and war for oil.  In November, we will delve into the issues of centralized, industrialized agriculture and its impact on climate change and war.  In December, we will be focusing on how our consumer culture is driving peak oil, climate change, and resource wars, and explore the kinds of community strategies needed in order to transform our city and our world.  If you have an idea for an event or would like to get more involved in the campaign, please contact Eda and Mike through their website, http://www.gardensorgraves.org/.

Events for October

October 1:  12-1PM

Vigil in front of the White House against U.S. African Command.  Say no to future wars for oil on the African continent.

October 3: 7:30PM 

Attend Dorothy Day House Clarification of Thought.

Mark P. Fancher, spokesperson and Chair of International Section of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL), will discuss the NCBL’s public position and legal work against U.S. African Command (AFRICOM).  Speaking for the NCBL, he has stated, "We believe that AFRICOM is nothing more than a device to ensure that the U.S. oil industry will continue to have unfettered access to Africa’s vast supplies of oil…If anyone in Africa interferes with U.S. oil operations, we suspect that they will be given the terrorist label and then targeted for military attacks."  Fancher is a writer, activist, human rights lawyer, and the author of The Splintering of Global Africa - Capitalism’s War Against Pan-Africanism.

October 13:  7-8:30PM 

Monday night movie and discussion at MLK Jr. Library. 

This event requires RSVP to mike@gardensorgraves.org.  There will be a second showing of Blood and Oil on October 27th if the initial interest overwhelms our accommodations.

Watch and discuss “Blood and Oil,” a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years – rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.

For more information on our events, please check out Mike and Eda’s website at www.gardensorgraves.org.