Monday, April 18th 2011  6:30-8:00pm
Brooklyn, NY

Join author Antonia Juhasz, IVAW Executive Director Jose Vasquez, and Greenpeace New York Field Organizer Canem Ozyildirim for a celebration of the launch of the Black Tide book tour and a discussion of real “energy security” at a time of three wars, rising oil and gasoline prices, and renewed calls for “drill baby drill” in response.

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, killing eleven men, and unleashing an 80,000 barrel a day oil gusher. It became the largest oil disaster in American history, and it could happen again. As we prepare for Earth Day on April 22, we look to these events to help guide solutions for a secure energy future.

BLACK TIDE is more than a story of ruined beaches, dead wildlife, chemical dispersants, corporate spin, political machinations, and financial fallout. It is a riveting human drama filled with people whose lives will forever be defined as “before” and “after” the Gulf oil disaster.

“These remarkable stories—of loss, heroism, and culpability—are a vivid reminder that this catastrophe will be with us for decades.” –Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine.

“Black Tide is extremely well researched, reasoned and written.”  –Dr. Robert Bea, Deepwater Horizon Study Group

“Black Tide is riveting, infuriating, and incredibly important to understand the places, politics, and people who survived the Gulf oil disaster.” –Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell.

ANTONIA JUHASZ is a leading oil industry expert and Director of the Energy Program at Global Exchange. She is the author of three books: Black Tide, The Tyranny of Oil, and The Bush Agenda. She has covered and commented on the oil industry on NPR, BBC Radio, CBC TV, and Democracy Now!, and in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Petroleum Review Magazine, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, and Ms. Magazine., and she was featured in the CNBC documentary, “The Hunt for Black Gold” and on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. A former legislative assistant to two members of Congress, Juhasz is on the National Advisory Committee of Iraq Veterans Against the War and is an Associate Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies.

Black Tide

Location:
powerHouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 T – 212.604.9074
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY
11201

Contact:
powerHouse Arena
lena@powerhousearena.com
212.604.9074 x109