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One event URL is-
<a href="http://communitycurrency.org/node/63">
http://communitycurrency.org/node/63</a> and I'll have Riki on my
radio show this Thursday
<a href="http://www.communitycurrency.org/node/75">
http://www.communitycurrency.org/node/75</a>.<br><br>
Brought to you by Community Currency, The Ladies’ Guide to the
Apocalypse, and the Grand Lake Theatre.<br>
The Other Event URL, with photos and artwork:
<a href="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/</a>
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<h1><b>OILPOCALYPSE NOW with Dr. Riki Ott -<br>
Time for a 28th Amendment for the SEPARATION OF CORPORATION AND
STATE</b></h1>You are invited to a benefit for the
<a href="http://gulfcoastfund.org/">Gulf Coast Fund</a>, the
<a href="http://www.chsl.webs.com/">Coastal Heritage Society of
Louisiana</a>, and <a href="http://www.ultimatecivics.org/">Ultimate
Civics</a> which will feature speakers-<br><br>
<b>Dr. Riki Ott, Summer Burkes, Lisa Gautier, Phoebe Sorgen, Carol
Brouillet</b>, the documentary-
<a href="http://www.blackwavethefilm.com/">Black Wave- The Legacy of the
Exxon Valdez</a><br><br>
Doors open at 6pm, Welcome at 7 pm, followed by a tinfoil hat and costume
contest judged by <b>John Law</b>, co-founder of the
<a href="http://www.cacophony.org/">Cacophony Society</a> and
<a href="http://laughingsquid.com/">Laughing Squid</a> ! (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.<br><br>
Where: <a href="http://www.renaissancerialto.com/">The Grand Lake
Theater</a>, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, California. Admission- $10 -
$20.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.rikiott.com/">Riki Ott, PhD</a>, is a community
activist, a former commercial salmon "fisherm'am," and has a
degree in marine toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. She
experienced firsthand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez oil
spilland chose to do something about it.<br><br>
She is the author of
<a href="http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/sound_truth_and_corporate_myth/">
Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill</a> and
<a href="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</a> (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.<br><br>
<b>Summer Burkes</b> is the gifted writer of
<a href="http://summerburkes.wordpress.com/">The Ladies' Guide to the
Apocalypse</a>. 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.<br><br>
<b>Lisa Gautier</b> - President of the ecological public charity
<a href="http://www.matteroftrust.org/">Matter of Trust</a> 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.<br><br>
<b>Phoebe Sorgen</b> 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.
<a href="http://warisacrime.org/corporations">Resolutions</a> 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,
<a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=4743">Citizens United
protests</a>.<br><br>
<b>Carol Brouillet</b> hosts the
<a href="http://www.communitycurrency.org/node/48">Community Currency
radio show</a>, and is the publisher of the
<a href="http://www.deceptiondollar.com/">Deception Dollar</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.blackwavethefilm.com/">Black Wave- The Legacy of the
Exxon Valdez</a> 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<b>Dr. Riki Ott</b>, founded
<a href="http://www.ultimatecivics.org/">Ultimate Civics</a> 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.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/">Burners without
Borders</a>, <a href="http://www.matteroftrust.org/">Matter of Trust</a>,
<a href="http://www.ultimatecivics.org/">Ultimate Civics</a> 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.<br><br>
Carol Brouillet (I have posters and cards, if anyone would like some to
help spread the word.)<br>
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