April 2012

I Am Not Case Number 0615664!

Dear BP,Flotel Photo Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert

I am writing this letter to express how I feel about what you have done to me and my life. I believe it's not fair for me to expect you to know what I've lost because you don't even know who I am. Well I'm going to tell you who I am, what I've lost, and what I am NOT! [...Read more]

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Jamie Griffin

Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike Against Tar Sands Pipelines

In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest this week to join a  48-hour hunger strike in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline—and all tar sands pipelines—they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the U.S and in Canada.   [...Read more]

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Rocky Kistner

Connect the Dots - The Last Facebook Note

connect the dotsOriginally posted on Facebook, April 4th 2012. The week before last I was invited to speak at a Gulf Coast justice leadership summit held in Mobile, AL. While there I had the fortune of meeting and speaking with more than a handful of folks who have been working on environmental justice issues on a local and regional level for many years – some, as long as half a century. [...Read more]

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Cherri Foytlin

Gulf for Lease

Rig in the GulfBy Max Gerson, Sierra Club Louisiana Intern. Originally posted in the Sierra Club's Compass.  It's typically considered bad form to kick an enemy when he's down. [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

Gulf Coast women voice coastal restoration concerns in D.C.

cwc visits rep palazzoDuring a recent trip to Washington, D.C, members of Coastal Women for Change (CWC) voiced our concerns regarding the RESTORE Act. [...Read more]

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Sharon Hanshaw

Gulf Coast Community Organizations Still Deserve Applause for RESTORE Act

On March 14,  the U.S. Senate approved a $109 billion transportation bill that includes the RESTORE Act,  which directs 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the 2010 BP oil disaster to the five Gulf States – Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. [...Read more]

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Stephen Bradberry

Report from the road: Librotraficantes smuggle banned books into Arizona

After the state of Arizona banned ethnic studies, Tucson school district followed suit and pulled a number of books, mostly by [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

Citizens Affected by Oil Disaster Invite BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg On Tour of Gulf Coast

bp shareholder protest 2011Bridge The Gulf contributors and advisors Bryan Parras and Derrick Evans arrived in London today, to attend the BP shareholders meeting.  Here's the press release they put out: [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

At shareholder meeting, BP board member agrees to tour struggling Gulf Coast communities

bryan and derrick at bp shareholder meetingToday, two community leaders invited BP to tour the Gulf Coast, at the corporation's annual shareholder meeting in London.  One BP board member, Ian Davis, agreed to take them up on their invitation.  Bryan Parras and Derrick Evans, both advisors to the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health, spoke "on behalf of scores of thousands of everyday people" who are still impacted [...Read more]

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Ada McMahon

"Will BP come clean?" My remarks at the BP shareholder meeting

bryan parras at bp meetingToday, two community advocates and regional leaders from the Gulf Coast, Bryan Parras and Derrick Evans, brought an urgent message to BP's board and shareholders, at the corporation's annual meeting.  Here are Parras's remarks as prepared for delivery. Parras is a leader of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, (t.e.j.a.s.), Gulf Coast Fund Advisor [...Read more]

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Bryan Parras

"Come and see for yourselves": My remarks at the BP shareholder meeting

derrick evans at BP shareholder meetingToday, two community advocates and regional leaders from the Gulf Coast, Bryan Parras and Derrick Evans, brought an urgent message to BP's board and shareholders, at the corporation's annual meeting.  Here are Evans' remarks as prepared for delivery.  Evans is the founder of Turkey Creek Community Initiatives (TCCI), a Founding Advisor of the Gulf Coast Fund, and Bridge T [...Read more]

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Derrick Evans

Troubled Waters: Discussion with Community Dinner Master Planner Rebecca Templeton

rebecca with trawl boatRebecca Templeton is the executive director of Bayou Grace Community Services, a nonprofit in Terrebonne Parish, La. [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

Troubled Waters: Discussion with Vietnamese Community Advocate Daniel Nguyen

daniel nguyenDaniel Nguyen works with the Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation, which has been providing technical assistance for folks affected by the BP oil disaster. [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

Troubled Waters: Discussion with Cherri Foytlin on Holding the Oil Industry Accountable

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Cherri Foytlin

Litany for the Sea

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Aimee Suzara

Bless these shrimps: Faith, fishing and Gulf Coast restoration

By Jeffrey Buchanan, Oxfam America. Crossposted from Facing South. Faith and fishing: two cen [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

Troubled Waters: Discussion with Louisiana Documentarian Monique Verdin

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Bridge The Gulf

Stories from the Gulf Reveal BP Disaster Still Hurts

“Never let injustice shut you up. When you see injustice you must stand up. It’s going to hurt sometimes. It’s going to cost you something. But you can never, never allow injustice in your presence and sit silently by and let it happen. You cannot do that.” – Gulf resident Linda St. Martin from Stories from the Gulf. [...Read more]

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Rocky Kistner

Remember the Gulf On Earth Day - What's Happening Across the Gulf

Across the Gulf Coast residents will pause to mark the second memorial/anniversary of the BP Oil Drilling Disaster and to remember the Gulf on Earth Day.  Below are some of the scheduled events.  
 

Thursday, April 19th [...Read more]

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Karen Savage

Troubled Waters: Discussion with Bryan Parras on Fenceline Communities on the Gulf Coast

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Bryan Parras