We the Poisoned

Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans

By: Jordan Chariton, Erin Brockovich - foreword

Narrated by: Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss

As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint—and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

From crooked Wall Street financial schemes to political payoffs, destruction of evidence, witness tampering, falsified water data, threatened whistle blowers, and panicked phone calls, We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans reveals, for the first time, the real story behind how the government poisoned a major American city—and how they are still getting away with it.

As the cover-up continues a decade later, innocent residents have been arrested, surveilled, threatened, and gaslit to feel like they are crazy. With more and more sick residents slowly dying every year, Flint’s lead levels again on the rise, and cancer rates surging across the city, it is time for the true, sinister story of the Flint water cover-up to be told. Based on eight years of reporting, thousands of confidential documents from the criminal investigation, and the former governor of Michigan’s own words under oath, Jordan Chariton takes listeners on the road to crisis before the Flint River switch—when government officials blew through all stop signs and orchestrated a financial scheme that allowed a nearly bankrupt Flint to borrow $100 million for a controversial new water system.

As brown, smelly water flowed through Flint homes and residents grew sick, politicians intentionally and knowingly allowed Americans to drink poison as they prioritized their own political ambitions and survival. Just when you think the levels of callousness and disregard for the people can’t drop any lower, Chariton digs even deeper to expose one of the biggest government cover-ups of the twenty-first century.

We the Poisoned is a cautionary tale about “run-government-like-a-business” leaders who champion privatization and economic development at the expense of the environment, public health, and vulnerable citizens. Perhaps even more important, with water and environmental contamination surging across the US, Chariton’s revelations provide a road map for how to fight back and prevent similar tragedies from happening to other communities.

©2024 Jordan Chariton (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Cruelty and greed painstakingly explained

Jordan takes us on the 10 yr journey that still leaves victims of this crime by a US government against it's people without justice. He lays out the facts allowing you to make your own judgements but also making it quite clear where the issues originate and how the miscarriage of justice continues to victimize the citizens of Flint to this very day. Must read. It could happen to any of us and we must work to right this wrong for these victims.

Facts

Beautiful sad factual story that needs to be heard because it could happen to anyone

I thought I had learned what I could, until now

I finished this within approximately 40 hrs. I couldn't keep away from it.
its tied together so well, with each chapter I'm even more shocked!
Well done Jordan! I think you should know that your efforts and emotional costs are very much appreciated!
it's good to see humanity in such shadows.

heartbreaking

it was absolutely brilliant and devastating. Great job, Jordan and the Flintstones of Flint, Michigan!

If you drink water, you should read this book

very well researched and done. Is from a journalist POV. Really drives home the idea of out of sight is out of mind, but not gone. Also how hard it is to keep an on going crisis in sight, with the current media landscape. Narrator did great job of making you feel for the people trapped and betrayed by this man made tragedy.

Heartbreaking. Must Read.

My jaw dropped repeatedly during this book. I could not stop listening. Bureaucrats, politicians, corporations, and media need to be held to account. The injustice is unbearable. Jordan is an amazing journalist. Imagine if all journalists were true to their craft like him. We would have way more accountability in the world. Flint deserves justice! Flint is all of us. Lastly, the narrator of this book was one of the best I’ve heard on this app. Excellent.

The intentional poisoning of an American city.

Independent journalism exposing the merger of government, corporate media and business interests in the poisoning and cover up of an American city that has resulted in the deaths and illness of untold numbers of US citizens.

Absolutely necessary, utterly horrifying

Imagine visiting a city where thousands of children have been rendered barely able to count due to pollutants introduced to their drinking water. Where the water coming into homes isn't even safe to bathe in, let alone drink. If that isn't at least as disturbing a notion as any horror movie, I don't know what is. Excellently written by Jordan Chariton to provide many human faces to this abomination and ably narrated by Pete Cross, this should shake anyone with patriotic views of what the American government is capable of out of their complacency.

Fascinating, heartbreaking, and capitalism.

A real journalist reveals the truth of how our system works. At this point the finger points to Governor Rick Snyder, but as Prosecutor Flood was not finished. There is more here and the question is always who profits, some entity was paying Snyder to do this...Nest...?

The people of Flint can take a pounding.

I like the overall storytelling but, the people of Flint couldn't have been more dumber.