Annual Meeting
Luncheon Speaker
Dr. Riki Ott
May 7, 2011  11:30 AM

      The League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area invites the public to attend its luncheon on May 7 to hear Riki Ott, author of the book "Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill". Her topic will be "Changing the Endgame: the Real Gulf Story and America's Consequences of our Oil Addiction."
Riki Ott, PhD, is a community activist and has a degree in marine toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. She experienced first hand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She lives in Cordova, Alaska.
Dr, Ott will share her views on the BP oil spill in the Gulf and then place the story within the larger perspective of America's energy future and the consequences of our oil addiction, including privatization, globalization, militarization, the climate crisis and corporate personhood. Dr. Ott will share the practical remedies from people who are creating self-reliant, sustainable communities.