Monday, October
6
6:30 pm -
8:30pm
The Puffin
Room, 435 Broome
Street in Soho
(3 blocks south of
Houston, between
Broadway and Crosby
St.)
Support United
for Peace and Justice with your $10 donation
at the door - no one turned away for lack of
funds.
Wine and
light refreshments will be served for a small
donation.
Finally,
the inside story on Big Oil.
A "timely,
blistering critique... white-hot... Explosive fuel for the raging debate on oil
prices." - Kirkus
Reviews.
The
hardest-hitting exposé of the oil industry in decades answers today's most
pressing energy questions:
• Why have
oil and gasoline prices risen so
quickly?
• Where
will prices go in the future?
• Who's
really controlling those prices?
• How much
oil is left?
• How far
will Big Oil go to get it?
• And at
what cost to the economy, environment, human rights, worker safety, public
health, democracy,
and America's place
in the world?
In
The Tyranny of
Oil, Antonia Juhasz pulls back the
curtain on Big Oil-uncovering virtually unparalleled global power, influence
over elected officials, lax regulatory oversight, the truth behind $150-a-barrel
oil, $4.50-a-gallon gasoline, and the highest profit in corporate history.
Exposing an industry that thrives on secrecy, Juhasz shows how Big Oil manages
to hide its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all,
consumers. She reveals exactly what Big Oil wants and how it plans to get it -
through money, influence, and lies. Juhasz then provides a clear set of
meaningful and achievable solutions, including the break-up of Big
Oil.
Antonia
Juhasz - a dynamic public speaker - is a
leading expert on corporations and international trade and finance policy. She
is a fellow with Oil Change International and at the Institute for Policy
Studies, as well as being a senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus. She is
the author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the
World, One Economy at a Time. Her articles and opinion pieces have
appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Petroleum Review Magazine, and the
Los Angeles Times. A frequent
media commentator, she has appeared on Kudlow & Company, NPR's Diane Rehm Show and Marketplace, BBC World News, Democracy Now!, and Air America, among many others.
For more
information about the October 6th event, call the UFPJ office at
212-868-5545.
Visit The
Tyranny of Oil website for more information about the book and
Antonia's speaking tour.
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