The Black mayor of Waterproof, Louisiana has spent nearly a year behind bars without bail. A legal dispute in the rural Louisiana town of Waterproof has attracted the attention of national civil rights organizations and activists. Color Of Change, an online activist group that helped garner national attention for the Jena Six Case, recently rallied their members in support of Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham, who has been held without bail since May of 2010.
As clean up crews still scour the beaches and marshes of southeast Louisiana to mop up oil that recently washed ashore, the Coast Guard confirmed the responsible party was an Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners oil well in shallow waters of the Gulf. But according to the Wall Street Journal
By Jacqui Patterson, On The Issues Magazine. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Disaster of April 20, 2010 (the “BP Oil Spill”) is, as the news sometimes tells us, causing grave damage to the waterways and shores, marshlands and bayous of the Gulf of Mexico. Far more hidden is the devastation wrought on the women in scores of coastal communities.
As a resident of coastal Mississippi for more than 30 years, Shirley Tillman is used to seeing a few drum fish, sea gulls or jelly fish wash up on nearby sandy shores. It’s a fact of life living by the sea.
Thirty years ago, I was living in lush, beautiful Marin County, on the other side of the Golden Gate from San Francisco. At that time it was one of the most expensive places in America to live. Well, as faith would have it, my mom got sick, and I moved home to New Orleans.
“Homeless” equals “hungry,” so people think. So that is the way society addresses homelessness; the Homeless are fed in soup kitchens, but have no place to store their food. Homeless people are often also assumed to be unemployed and on the streets. But there are new, unexpected faces of homelessness on our blocks.
Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I’ve worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There were other reasons for my leaving as well, but risking people’s health and pretending things are normal is totally against what I believe in.
By Jacqui Patterson, 
As a resident of coastal Mississippi for more than 30 years, Shirley 
Thirty years ago, I was living in lush, beautiful Marin County, on the other side of the Golden Gate from San Francisco. At that time it was one of the most expensive places in America to live. Well, as faith would have it, my mom got sick, and I moved home to New Orleans. 
“Homeless” equals “hungry,” so people think. So that is the way society addresses homelessness; the Homeless are fed in soup kitchens, but have no place to store their food. Homeless people are often also assumed to be unemployed and on the streets. But there are new, unexpected faces of homelessness on our blocks.
Just this past week I decided to leave my job as a food server at a casino in Hancock County, Mississippi. I’ve worked in tourism for 15 years. I just could not continue to serve Gulf seafood to unsuspecting tourists and locals after the BP disaster. There were other reasons for my leaving as well, but risking people’s health and pretending things are normal is totally against what I believe in. 