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Community Currency - 02/03/11
February 3, 2011 Dr. Riki Ott - Oilpocalypse
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 spill and is featured in the documentary, Black Wave- The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez. [Review posted here.]
She is the author of Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Not One Drop: Promises, Betrayal, and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill [Review posted here] and Alaska's Copper River Delta. She is also the founder of three nonprofit organizations that deal with lingering harm from man-made environmental disaster, including Ultimate Civics whose goal is to build a popular movement and pass a constitutional amendment to reinstate the primacy of human rights over corporate rights.
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster, Dr. Ott went to the Gulf Coast to help, listen, learn, organize, research, witness, speak, and educate. Her blog ia an insightful look at the similarities between Exxon's behavior and BP's words, performance, and actions in the Gulf. Just as the toxic Corexit assists BP to sink the voluminous amounts of oil beneath the surface and out of public view, the facade of soundbites, photo ops, mask an immeasurable disaster whose effects may never be fully known. The word apocalypse literally means "lifting of the veil" and is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority. The term is used to refer to the end of the world... a shortening of the phrase "apokalupsis eschaton" which means "revelation at the end of the æon, or age." Perhaps the Gulf Oilpocalpse will reveal to the world the face of an industry meriting the doom that it has inflicted upon more benign species.
Dr. Riki Ott will join Summer Burkes, Lisa Gautier, Phoebe Sorgen and I at the East Bay Premiere of Black Wave on February 10th, a benefit for Gulf Coast Fund, the Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana, and Ultimate Civics , and an opportunity for us to organize ourselves and more powerful movement to rein in corporate power, and collectively make a shift off our deadly dependence on an oil based war economy.
Dr. Riki Ott mentioned on this show-
BP Spill Blood Tests Results by Wilma Subra
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