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Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz in Ecuador in November 2013. Lago Agrio oil field.
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Energy analyst, author, journalist and activist
Known forOil industry investigations
Websitehttp://www.antoniajuhasz.net/

Antonia Juhasz (born 1970) is an American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist.[1][2][3][4] She has authored three books: The Bush Agenda (2006), The Tyranny of Oil (2008), and Black Tide (2011).

Education

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Juhasz earned her undergraduate degree in Public Policy at Brown University.[5] She then earned her M.A. degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University.[5]

Career

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Juhasz received grants in 2014-2015 and 2013-2014 from the Max & Anna Levinson Foundation [6] to support her ongoing work in investigative journalism in the oil and energy sectors with Media Alliance and the Investigative Reporting Program, respectively. Juhasz was a 2012-2013 Investigative Journalism Fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program,[7] a working news room at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. She investigated the role of oil and natural gas in the Afghanistan war.

Juhasz is a contributing writer to Rolling Stone[8] and Harper's[9] magazines, among other outlets.

Juhasz is also a reporter with the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.[10]

According to information at her website, Juhasz has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program and as a guest lecturer on U.S. Foreign Policy at the McMaster University Labour Studies Program in a unique educational program with the Canadian Automobile Workers Union.[11]

As project director of the International Forum on Globalization,[12] in 1999 Juhasz worked to inform the public about the World Trade Organization, an effort which helped build activism culminating in the 1999 Seattle WTO protests.[13]

Juhasz worked as a legislative assistant in Washington, DC, for two U.S. members of Congress: John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD).[12]

Other positions

Writing

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Juhasz is the author of three books. She wrote The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time in 2006. The Georgia Straight of Canada said it was "One of the crispest, most insightful books yet to expose the Bush regime."[16]

Juhasz's The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It (HarperCollins 2008) received the 2009 San Francisco Library Laureate Award. USA Today wrote, Juhasz "reminds us that those who don't learn the lessons of history are fated to repeat its mistakes."[17] Kirkus Reviews finds it a "timely, blistering critique... white-hot... Explosive fuel for the raging debate on oil prices."[18]

Her 2011 book, Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill examined the human impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It was praised by Ms. magazine, which called it "masterfully reported,"[19] and by Mother Jones magazine, which said the writing was "both engaging and informative."[20]

Juhasz is the lead author and editor of The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report, for which she received a 2010 Project Censored Award.[21]

Activism

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Juhasz provided testimony at the Iraq Veterans Against the War—Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan in Silver Spring, Maryland in March 2008; at the Citizens Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq in support of Lt. Ehren Watada in Tacoma, Washington, in January 2007; and to the New York Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq in May 2004.

On 26 May 2010, Antonia Juhasz was removed from the Chevron Corporation shareholders' meeting in Houston and then arrested outside the meeting venue.[1][22][23][24] According to people at the meeting, this happened after Juhasz blasted Chevron's environmental record and then together with a few other activists, for several minutes chanted "Chevron lies".[24][25] According to Juhasz, she was charged with criminal trespass and disrupting a meeting, and was incarcerated for a twenty-four-hour period.[22]

Project Censored awarded Juhasz Top 25 in 2005 for "Ambitions of Empire: The Radical Reconstruction of Iraq's Economy".[26] In 2007 Peace Action placed Juhasz on their Women Peacemakers Honor Roll, "For women who have made a unique and lasting contribution to work for peace and justice in the world."[citation needed]

See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Letzing, John (29 September 2010). "Activist Faces Charges in Chevron Meeting Outburst". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Protesters Disrupt BP's First Shareholder Meeting Since Oil Spill". Environment News Service. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  3. ^ "'Big Oil' Topic of Public Affairs Forum Meeting". Alameda Sun. 4 January 2008. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Antonia Juhasz: 'Tyranny of Oil' Is A Grave Threat". NPR. 7 October 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b Education Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "investigative journalism". Max & Anna Levinson Foundation. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  7. ^ "Investigative Reporting Program". Investigative Reporting Program. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  8. ^ Rolling Stone profile
  9. ^ Harper's profile
  10. ^ "Antonia Juhasz". The Investigative Fund. Archived from the original on 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  11. ^ "The Bush Agenda : Biographical Information". Antonia Juhasz. 2007-07-30. Archived from the original on 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g Current or Past Positions Held by Juhasz [non-primary source needed] Archived January 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Loudest Dissent May Come from WIthin | IFG". Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved May 26, 2013.
  14. ^ "Advisory Committee | Iraq Veterans Against the War". Ivaw.org. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  15. ^ "About". Coffee Strong. Archived from the original on 2014-05-20. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  16. ^ Straight.com (August 3, 2006). "The Bu$h Agenda | Georgia Straight, Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly". Archived from the original on May 28, 2014. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  17. ^ Juskalian, Russ (21 January 2009). "Timing of oil price collapse dulls 'Tyranny's' point". USA Today.
  18. ^ Coyne, Amanda (2008-10-07). "THE TYRANNY OF OIL by Antonia Juhasz | Kirkus". Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  19. ^ Shank, Megan (April 20, 2011). "Women and the Gulf Oil Spill, One Year Later". Msmagazine.com. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  20. ^ Sheppard, Kate (April 22, 2011). "The Deepwater Horizon Disaster in Book Form". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  21. ^ "18. The True Cost of Chevron – Top 25 of 2011". Projectcensored.org. Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  22. ^ a b "Chevron Has 5 Activists Arrested and Bars Entry to Global Victims of Its Practices at Annual Shareholders' Meeting". Democracy Now!. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  23. ^ Juhasz, Antonia (28 September 2010). "Chevron Throws Book at Shareholder Activist (Me)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  24. ^ a b Letzing, John (28 September 2010). "Chevron shareholder activist faces jail time". MarketWatch. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  25. ^ Reddall, Braden (26 May 2010). "Chevron CEO says industry to learn from BP leak". Reuters. Retrieved 9 June 2013.[dead link‍]
  26. ^ Project Censored Award Archived 2008-08-07 at the Wayback Machine,

Bibliography

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Books
  • The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. (HarperCollins, 2006) ISBN 0-06-087878-9
  • The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry—and What We Must Do to Stop It. (HarperCollins, 2008) ISBN 0-06-143450-7
  • Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (Wiley, 2011) ISBN 0-470-94337-8
Articles
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