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From Democracy Now -- "5 Million Barrels of Oil Does Not Disappear": Author, Activist Antonia Juhasz on the BP Spill, One Year Later:

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the worst maritime oil spill in history. Last year on April 20 an oil rig leased by oil giant BP exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and releasing nearly 200 million gallons of oil, tens of millions of gallons of natural gas and 1.8 million gallons of chemicals. We speak to Antonia Juhasz, author of the new book, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. Juhasz attended the BP shareholders meeting in London last week and spoke on behalf of Gulf Coast residents denied entry.

Full transcript at Democracy Now's site. One year later after all the ambulance chasing and 24/7 coverage of the disaster in the Gulf, we sure aren't hearing much from our mainstream media on the subject. Although Andrea Mitchell did let Kenneth Feinberg come on today and do a little PR work for BP on MSNBC.