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Oilpocalypse
Cherri Foytlin, a wife of an offshore oil worker and mother of six, is a journalist who has been actively working on issues surrounding the 2010 Gulf Oil Catastrophe, and is a co-founder of Gulf Change. She has spoke at the Oil Spill Commission, the Rally for the Truth, the Rally for Economic Survival, the Gulf Change Rally, Spill Into Washington D.C., Tulane University, Loyola University and more. She, with co-author Jen Reed, has written the book "Spill It! The Truth About the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: What They Say Versus What We Know", and a children's coloring book on coastal erosion.
Dahr Jamail is an investigative journalist. In late 2003, unsatisfied with the US media coverage on the war in Iraq, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself.
Since then, he has become world renowned for documenting the human cost of the Iraq war: the everyday violence and terror, the deterioration of the healthcare system, the shortages of clean water and the resulting rise in sickness, the lack of jobs and economic opportunity, the refugee crisis, and the detention and torture of civilians and resistance fighters. His website, articles, and speeches cast light on the dark side of the war masked by the conventional press.
Dahr’s reporting has earned him numerous awards, including the prestigious 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards.
We are fortunate he has turned is attention to the Gulf disaster and courageously tried to break through the media embargo on the hardships its people now face.
Here are some links to some of the topics discussed on this show-
BP Spill Blood Test Results - Louisiana Residents
Gulf Coast fighting for recompense
BP's Scheme to Swindle the "Small People"
Oilpocalypse Now a benefit, in Oakland, California, February 10, 2011, 7 pm, at the Grand Lake Theater for the Gulf Coast Fund, the Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana, and Ultimate Civics.