Voices from the Gulf

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Know and Use the Law

Photo: Oil and gas pipelines run behind Africatown's historic Mobile County Training School. Photo credit: Karen Savage

The law will be of no value to you if 1) you do not know the law, 2) you are afraid to use the law, 3) you cannot financially afford the law. Historically, laws are created to protect the innocent and the weak or safeguard the greedy.

Climate and Environment

Can Alarmists Prevent the Next Bayou Corne?

Above - Trees and debris at the site of Texas Brine's sinkhole near the Bayou Corne community. Photo credit: John Achee

People like myself have been accused of being "alarmists" when it comes to some of the information that we gather, review, do our best to determine the veracity of, and then post for all to see.

Education and Human Development

Media and Arts

Race and Racial Justice

Alabama Filmmakers Tackle Systemic Racism with "Mobile in Black and White"

Excerpt from "Mobile in Black and White": Huggy Bear da Poet performs “Bama”

Climate and Environment

Education and Human Development

Land and Housing

Race and Racial Justice

Community Protests Toxic School Site in New Orleans

The Recovery School District (RSD) plans to build a new school on a toxic site in New Orleans, and it has the blessing of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. But a lawsuit and growing community opposition seek to stop the plan.

Culture and Traditions

Land and Housing

Race and Racial Justice

Africatown - A Tradition and Struggle like No Other

To commemorate the 155th anniversary of the beginning of the Africatown saga and the 154th anniversary of the landing of the last recorded shipment of slaves to this country, here is a summary of the "Africatown Story" from 1859 to today. (As told to me by Mr. Henry Williams as he taught Sunday School at Yorktown Baptist Church).

Climate and Environment

No Más Tar Sands! – Healing Begins at the Source

The Keystone XL pipeline begins in Alberta, Canada and ends in my backyard. Here in Houston’s East End, we’re well acquainted with the risks of living so close to the oil refineries whose toxic emissions poison us every day. Like so many other kids in this neighborhood, I grew up with constant headaches, asthma and skin rashes. Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are not uncommon. Now, the tar sands are here in my home.

Distrust In God We Trust

Originally posted in New American Journal on June 18th

Image: Translation of In God We Trust, by W. Simon

MOBILE, Ala – From the agenda for the Mobile County Commission meeting on June 19, 2014:

resolution authorizing the public display of the national motto “In God We Trust” in Government Plaza

Climate and Environment

Economy and Work

Land and Housing

Energy Extremes in Alabama, from Florence Rally to Mobile Forum

Opposites appeared at opposite ends of Alabama on June 5. At the upper extreme a rally in Florence called for tar sands mining to stop before it begins. At the lower extreme of the state the energy industry staged a forum to which the public was invited — as spectators, not participants – in Mobile.

Climate and Environment

Disaster, Response and Renewal

Health and Wellness

Dr. Riki Ott Seeks to Change How We Respond to Oil Spills

Marine toxicologist and Exxon Valdez survivor Dr. Riki Ott, who first sounded the alarm regarding the abundant use of chemical dispersants in the early days of the 2010 BP Deepwater Drilling Disaster, is once again touring the Gulf.

Culture and Traditions

Race and Racial Justice

"Africatown Fats"

Most of you have heard of "Fats Domino" and "Minnesota Fats" but have you ever heard of "Africatown Fats"? He was an unsung community baseball champion who touched the lives of hundreds of players through his involvement in owning and managing a "negro" baseball team in Mobile, Alabama during the ‘40s, ‘50s, ’60s, and ‘70s.

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