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.

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.

the blatant overt cover-up committed by state and federal officials

very informative, a must read. it will have you angry at the end of it

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.