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DESCRIPTION:The Open University is hosting a series of educational events focusing on 
 the controversial partnership between UC Berkeley and BP, which will 
 provide the foundation for an informed and focused activist campaign 
 against the corporate privatization of our university. This weekly series 
 will utilize multiple mediums to critically explore the issues surrounding 
 this arrangement, such as BP's history, details of the EBI contract, 
 biofuels research, hemp for sustainable energy, public education 
 principles, and the threats of privatization. Combining documentary film 
 excerpts, short lectures, research reviews, and group discussions, these 
 free and open events provide a space for effective awareness and coalition 
 building.\n\nThis Saturday's presentation focuses on BP’s history of 
 reckless and unethical behavior, and outlines the dangers of inviting an 
 untrustworthy corporation to wield extensive power over university 
 research. The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the most recent catastrophe 
 resulting from BP's prioritization of profit over people, and we will learn 
 more about this ugly truth by watching the excellent documentary "The Big 
 Fix". Their character credibility is crushed when we consider their crimes 
 in this case: blatant disregard for safety, use of a toxic cleanup 
 strategy, dishonest reporting, suppression of critical voices, and media 
 manipulation. Next we will take an in-depth look at the BP-UCB Energy 
 BioSciences Institute contract, which reveals an arrangement that threatens 
 to corrupt academic integrity, suppress genuine sustainability science, and 
 allow for private control of public knowledge. This deal was forcefully 
 rammed through our academic senate in 2007 without sufficient consideration 
 of the dishonorable intentions and negative consequences, and we will also 
 revisit the passionate condemnations made by dissenting faculty.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/05/18731442.php
SUMMARY:Screening of "The Big Fix" about BP oil spill
LOCATION:Moffitt Library at UC Berkeley\n\nRoom 106 (under the Free Speech Cafe)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/05/18731442.php
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