What can we learn from the Gulf oil disaster?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Exxon Valdez survivor and marine biologist Riki Ott and Texas shrimper-turned-activist Diane Wilson. They've been helping workers in the Gulf organize to defend the environment, their jobs, and their own health. How has the BP catastrophe changed your view of the environment, our economy, and our democracy? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Has this oil spill brought us to a crossroads? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Riki Ott, marine biologist and author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Diane Wilson, former Texas shrimp boat captain and author of An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas

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Your Call 092508 Big Oil with author Antonia Juhasz

What's in store for the future of big oil? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Antonia Juhasz, author of the forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry -- and What We Must Do to Stop It. Juhasz investigates the true state of the U.S. oil industry by uncovering its global power, influence over our elected officials, the truth behind $150-a-barrel oil, and the highest profit in corporate history. Who's really controlling the prices? How much oil is even left? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest: Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco.

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