Speech by Susan Felio Price from Rally for Gulf Change, 10/30/2010, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Good afternoon! I'm Susan Felio Price, owner of a marine vessel repair business in Chauvin, La., mother, grandmother and a child advocate for 10 years.
As I stand before you today my heart is heavily burdened....my mind is troubled...
In October 2010, Bridge the Gulf partnered with StoryCorps and NRDC to record, share, and preserve the stories and experiences of people living through the BP oil disaster.
I first met JJ Creppel last summer while standing in the checkout line of the Buras Dollar Store. It’s one of the few places in this Louisiana fishing town deep down in the bayou where you can buy basic groceries and milk. Nearly all the other stores were destroyed five years ago in the monster storm that roared through here and leveled this community of 5,000 people.
This weekend James "Catfish" Miller, was hospitalized after falling ill during a boat ride in the Gulf of Mexico. A commercial shrimper from D'Iberville, Mississippi, Catfish is certain his illness was caused by chemical dispersants sprayed on the Gulf in response to the BP oil disaster.
But his doctor at the Biloxi Regional Medical Center called it "acid reflux," without doing a test for chemical poisoning.
Bayou La Batre, Alabama - Like so many on the Gulf Coast, Ana Chau is dealing with two disasters.
This time last year, she and her husband made their living shucking oysters. Now they are out of work, their industry crippled indefinitely by the millions of gallons of crude oil and toxic dispersant dumped into the Gulf of Mexico by BP.
In the pictures below, I was out shooting around the oil spill one day. There were cleanup workers everywhere. Yellow buoy floating all around the pier. I happen to catch this crane just standing on the pier, next to some guys fishing off the pier. The unusual thing was. It didn't budge at all. I got very close to it. It never moved. It just moved to the side to let me walk right by. So, I took a few snap shots of it.
The first public meeting of the Gulf Coast Restoration Task Force met on Monday, November 8, from 11:30am - 4:00pm., at the Pensacola Civic Center in Florida.
Down in the Louisiana bayou, the fall season is changing with the north winds. Millions of ducks, geese and migratory birds are arriving as they have throughout the millennia. Shrimp are slowly abandoning the nourishing coastal marshes as cooler water pushes them out to sea.
North Gulfport, Mississippi - Yesterday Governor Haley Barbour, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Mississippi housing advocates represented by Reilly Morse, announced a major agreement that makes $133 million available to assist low-income Mississippians in repairing their Hurricane Katrina-damaged homes.
North Gulfport, Mississippi - Yesterday Governor Haley Barbour, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Mississippi housing advocates represented by Reilly Morse, announced a major agreement that makes $133 million available to assist low-income Mississippians in repairing their Hurricane Katrina-damaged homes.
This is truth. This is what the people are facing down here. If you have any interest in the genocide that is happening in our Gulf, if you are not afraid to know the truth, watch this.
Speech by Susan Felio Price from Rally for Gulf Change, 10/30/2010, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Speech from the Gulf Change Rally. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/30/10.
Speech by Karen Hopkins delivered at the Rally for Gulf Change. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/30/10.
By Barry Yeoman. 
Experts, fishermen and residents disagree with federal agencies' claims that the Gulf and its seafood are safe. By Dahr Jamail, 
This weekend James "Catfish" Miller, was hospitalized after falling ill during a boat ride in the Gulf of Mexico. A commercial shrimper from D'Iberville, Mississippi, Catfish is certain his illness was caused by chemical dispersants sprayed on the Gulf in response to the BP oil disaster. 
Bayou La Batre, Alabama - Like so many on the Gulf Coast, Ana Chau is dealing with two disasters.
A struggle over the size of New Orleans’ jail could define the city’s future
The first public meeting of the Gulf Coast Restoration Task Force met on Monday, November 8, from 11:30am - 4:00pm., at the Pensacola Civic Center in Florida.
North Gulfport, Mississippi - Yesterday Governor Haley Barbour, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Mississippi housing advocates represented by Reilly Morse, announced a major agreement that makes $133 million available to assist low-income Mississippians in repairing their Hurricane Katrina-damaged homes.
North Gulfport, Mississippi - Yesterday Governor Haley Barbour, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Mississippi housing advocates represented by Reilly Morse, announced a major agreement that makes $133 million available to assist low-income Mississippians in repairing their Hurricane Katrina-damaged homes.