Julian Drix
Julian Drix has been an organizer with Rising Tide for over two years, working on popular education initiatives, social justice gatherings such as the Northeast Climate Confluence, and direct actions with the Greenwash Guerrillas, the guerrilla theatre group associated with Rising Tide.
Julian has a degree in Africana Studies from Brown University, and wrote an honors senior thesis on the way in which carbon markets and green capitalism represent new frontiers of colonialism. Through this thesis he has spent time learning from and working with Afro-Brazilian Quilombolas, Tupiniquim, Guarani, and campesina communities in Brazil who are struggling against monocrop eucalyptus plantations that earn carbon credits and are potential fuel crops for next generation cellulosic ethanol.
Currently, Julian is living in his home community in the Finger Lakes of New York and helping spark a burgeoning environmental justice campaign against drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, an unconventional gas reserve which has enough gas to promise the potential to secure "energy independence" for the United States.
He has presented at workshops on various facets of climate justice in community centers, colleges, high schools, youth camps, and churches across the nation, and hopes to further develop the potential climate justice popular education initiatives as tool for community organizing.