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Lecture / Talk
Report-Back from the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster
Date/Time
June 12 (Saturday),
7:00 pm
Location
Revolution Books - 85 S Washington St Seattle, WA (half block west off 1st Ave in Pioneer Square)
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Revolution Books Seattle
Presentation by Revolution reporter Orpheus Reed following two weeks of investigation and resistance in the Gulf region.
Orpheus Reed and Larry Everest have been reporting from New Orleans on the massive oil disaster. Come see this presentation by Orpheus who has been on the ground along the Gulf Coast investigating the impacts and causes of the oil spill disaster, exposing the criminal system behind it, and resisting this continuing crime against the planet.
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Saturday, June 12, 7:00 pm
Revolution Books - 85 S Washington St (half block west off 1st Ave in Pioneer Square)
Report-Back from the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster
Presentation by Revolution reporter Orpheus Reed following two weeks of investigation and resistance in the Gulf region
"When you stick your finger into one of the orange-brown or black, asphalt-smelling globs of oil now washing into the wetlands where the Mississippi Delta meets the Gulf of Mexico, it just gloms on and sticks. It's hard to get off. You see it stuck to the stalks of the roso-cane reeds, which hold the wetlands in place. Then you start thinking about what happens when a fish, a bird, or some other creature gets caught in this toxic stew. And you think about how these pools are only the first, small waves of oil from the exploded wellhead of British Petroleum's "Deepwater Horizon" And you just can't take it.
The Gulf oil spill is an almost immeasurable environmental crime, an immense catastrophe seemingly without end. Vast marine areas are becoming polluted and clogged with oil, causing largely unseen havoc. Much larger regions in the sea, near shore and on land are threatened. Most of the devastation this spill is causing is unseen—out in the marine ecosystems of the Gulf. In recent days more of the oil has begun to hit land. This is beginning to bring home the reality of the immense scope of this disaster to many people who had previously been fervently hoping against hope that the worst wouldn't happen"
- From the Revolution newspaper article, "Ecosystem Facing Disaster: A System Not Fit To Be Caretaker of the Earth" www.revcom.us/a/202/oil_spill-en.html
Orpheus Reed and Larry Everest have been reporting from New Orleans on the massive oil disaster. Come see this presentation by Orpheus who has been on the ground along the Gulf Coast investigating the impacts and causes of the oil spill disaster, exposing the criminal system behind it, and resisting this continuing crime against the planet.
Orpheus Reed writes on issues of the environment and the antiglobalization movement and contributed to "State of Emergency! The Plunder Of Our Planet, The Environmental Catastrophe and The Real Revolutionary Solution" www.revcom.us/environment
Event is Free. Suggested donation: $5 - $15
Contact: Revolution Books, 206-325-7415, rbsea@yahoo.com, www.revolutionbookssea.org
Website for more info:
http://www.revolutionbookssea.org
Contact Person:
Revolution Books
Contact Email:
rbsea@yahoo.com
Contact Ph. Number:
206-325-7415
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