{"id":39447,"date":"2014-03-28T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39447"},"modified":"2014-03-28T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T16:50:37","slug":"big-men-exposes-the-colliding-worlds-of-texas-oil-men-nigerian-militants-and-ghanas-new-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/28\/big-men-exposes-the-colliding-worlds-of-texas-oil-men-nigerian-militants-and-ghanas-new-oil-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Men Exposes the Colliding Worlds of Texas Oil Men, Nigerian Militants, and Ghana&#8217;s New Oil Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140328Uprising\/2014_03_28_bigmen.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Rachel Boynton <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140328Uprising\/2014_03_28_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/big_men.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A new documentary chronicling the worlds of Texas oil executives, Nigerian government officials, and armed militants, shows how competing interests over resources and power can warp whole nations. <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Boyton&#8217;s documentary, Big Men, executive produced by actor Brad Pitt, follows in parallel the story of Nigeria&#8217;s well-established oil industry, and Ghana&#8217;s new foray into the business of selling oil to foreign investors. <\/p>\n<p>An American company called Kosmos, wins a lucrative contract with Ghana&#8217;s government. With intimate access to the executives of Kosmos and the armed insurgents of Nigeria, Boyton exposes backroom wheeling and dealing in a way that is rarely seen on the big screen. <\/p>\n<p>Big Men opens on Friday March 28th at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in Hollywood, 8000 Sunset Blvd. <\/p>\n<p>GUEST: Rachel Boynton, director of Big Men; her earlier film is called Our Brand is Crisis<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigmenthemovie.com\">www.bigmenthemovie.com<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary chronicling the worlds of Texas oil executives, Nigerian government officials, and armed militants, shows how competing interests over resources and power can warp whole nations. Rachel Boyton&#8217;s documentary, Big Men, executive produced by actor Brad Pitt, follows in parallel the story of Nigeria&#8217;s well-established oil industry, and Ghana&#8217;s new foray into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39459,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39447\/revisions\/39459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}