[GPSCC-chat] Oilpocalypse Now! Film Screening with Dr. Riki Ott in person...

[Carol Brouillet]

One event URL is- 
<http://communitycurrency.org/node/63>http://communitycurrency.org/node/63 
and I'll have Riki on my radio show this Thursday 
<http://www.communitycurrency.org/node/75>http://www.communitycurrency.org/node/75.

Brought to you by Community Currency, The Ladies’ 
Guide to the Apocalypse, and the Grand Lake Theatre.
The Other Event URL, with photos and artwork: 
<http://summerburkes.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/oakland-feb-10-2011-oilpocalypse-now/>http://summerburkes.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/oakland-feb-10-2011-oilpocalypse-now/


OILPOCALYPSE NOW with Dr. Riki Ott -
Time for a 28th Amendment for the SEPARATION OF CORPORATION AND STATE

You are invited to a benefit for the 
<http://gulfcoastfund.org/>Gulf Coast Fund, the 
<http://www.chsl.webs.com/>Coastal Heritage 
Society of Louisiana, and 
<http://www.ultimatecivics.org/>Ultimate Civics which will feature speakers-

Dr. Riki Ott, Summer Burkes, Lisa Gautier, Phoebe 
Sorgen, Carol Brouillet, the documentary- 
<http://www.blackwavethefilm.com/>Black Wave- The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez

Doors open at 6pm, Welcome at 7 pm, followed by a 
tinfoil hat and costume contest judged by John 
Law, co-founder of the 
<http://www.cacophony.org/>Cacophony Society and 
<http://laughingsquid.com/>Laughing Squid ! (BYO 
tinfoil) before the serious speakers. The film 
begins at 8 pm, followed by a discussion pointing 
towards solutions, including - a 28th 
Constitutional Amendment for the Separation of 
Corporation and State & Questions and Answers.

Where: <http://www.renaissancerialto.com/>The 
Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, 
California. Admission- $10 - $20.

<http://www.rikiott.com/>Riki Ott, PhD, is a 
community activist, a former commercial salmon 
"fisherm'am," and has a degree in marine 
toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. She 
experienced firsthand the devastating effects of 
the Exxon Valdez oil spill­and chose to do something about it.

She is the author of 
<http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/sound_truth_and_corporate_myth/>Sound 
Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the 
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and 
<http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/not_one_drop/>Not 
One Drop: Promises, Betrayal, and Courage in the 
Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Chelsea 
Green, 2008). She is also the founder of three 
nonprofit organizations that deal with lingering 
harm from man-made environmental disaster. She is 
one of the main characters in the documentary, 
Black Wave. She lives in Cordova, Alaska, but has 
spent many months in the Gulf region and will be 
returning to the Gulf after this event.

Summer Burkes is the gifted writer of 
<http://summerburkes.wordpress.com/>The Ladies' 
Guide to the Apocalypse. She never considered 
herself an activist before Earth Day, 2010. She 
*still* thinks of herself as a fledgling New 
Orleans homeowner and Lower Ninth Ward community 
member who tried to help protect her new home and 
stanch the flow when the Powers That Be poked a 
hole in the Earth they still can't fix. Working 
closely with Matter of Trust and Burners Without 
Borders in the days after the Oilpocalypse began, 
she and her colleagues ran around in the Bayou, 
posting lookouts, trying to get to the bottom of 
cleaning up the oil themselves, hiding whenever 
the Coast Guard (or BP) came by in their boats, armed with assault weapons.

Lisa Gautier - President of the ecological public 
charity <http://www.matteroftrust.org/>Matter of 
Trust established in 1998 (the group uses waste 
clippings of hair, fur & fleece to soak up oil 
spills) This was the most prominent citizen-led 
task force in the wake of BP Horizon. Overnight, 
this small non-profit ballooned into the most 
likely method for Americans to do their part in 
helping protect the Coastline. Tens of thousands 
of concerned citizens collected hair from salons 
in 30 countries. It was stuffed into pantyhose by 
hundreds of volunteers at the Gulf where tons and 
tons of “hairboom” were made and ready. These 
booms are a shockingly effective waste-stream 
method of soaking up oil, and BP's boom 
department agreed. Then, to everyone's surprise 
BP’s $900-million PR department smeared and quashed the movement.

Phoebe Sorgen was an eco and anti-nuclear 
activist who, since 9/11, began focusing on 
peace. She risked arrest at Lockheed Martin, 
Bechtel, Chevron, B of A, San Quentin etc, and 
served on the KPFA LSB. When chairing the BFUU 
Social Justice Committee, she learned that 
abolishing corporate personhood is key to most of 
what we want. 
<http://warisacrime.org/corporations>Resolutions 
she wrote as a Berkeley Peace & Justice 
Commissioner would rein in corporate rule, from 
addressing stolen elections (Diebold voting 
machines) to challenging unfair trade agreements, 
Haiti's occupation and wars inc. She organized a 
Bankster Picket at the SF Federal Reserve and, 
with the Women's International League for Peace & 
Freedom, <http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=4743>Citizens United protests.

Carol Brouillet hosts the 
<http://www.communitycurrency.org/node/48>Community 
Currency radio show, and is the publisher of the 
<http://www.deceptiondollar.com/>Deception Dollar

<http://www.blackwavethefilm.com/>Black Wave- The 
Legacy of the Exxon Valdez documents the struggle 
of the people of Cordova, Alaska, two decades 
after a drunk captain veered off-course and 11 
million gallons of crude poured into the ocean. 
The stunning landscape and heartbreaking tales, 
are moving and instructive. A similar, but larger 
tragedy is unfolding in the Gulf as BP uses a 
near-identical litany of lip service, lies, 
litigation and disregard for humans and 
environment in service to their bottom line. The 
superficial, inadequate, toxic clean-up of Prince 
William Sound and the lengthy legal battle 
Cordova endured, still falls laughably short of 
‘making them whole’ as promised, exposes the deep 
biases and injustice of a broken system. Contrary 
to the rosy reports on tv, the people in the Gulf 
Coast are starving and mentally exhausted, and 
fresh oil is still coming in every day.

The film holds some powerful lessons for all 
people about truths and lies, myths and broken 
promises, the need to champion for the rights of 
life, and people before profits and corporations.

Dr. Riki Ott, founded 
<http://www.ultimatecivics.org/>Ultimate Civics 
to build a popular movement and pass a 
constitutional amendment to reinstate the primacy 
of human rights over corporate rights. Their 
mission is to- inform people of the need to 
abolish corporate persons; encourage and assist 
citizen-driven efforts to pass ordinances; 
coalesce these efforts into passing state laws to 
trigger a national movement for a 28th AMENDMENT 
FOR THE SEPARATION OF CORPORATION AND STATE.

<http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/>Burners 
without Borders, 
<http://www.matteroftrust.org/>Matter of Trust, 
<http://www.ultimatecivics.org/>Ultimate Civics 
will have tables in the main lobby; this is an 
organizing opportunity. In the face of rampant 
corporate power, supported by government lies, a 
corrupt judiciary, only organized, sustained 
people power can turn the tide. Join a diverse 
group of people for a unique informative, 
inspiring evening, bring your tinfoil hat, your issue, and your friends.

Carol Brouillet (I have posters and cards, if 
anyone would like some to help spread the word.)

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