Voices of the Gulf

By Jordan Flaherty, Images by Zeph Fish.  Graphic essay orgininally published in Truthout.

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The Louisiana Bucket Brigade has dedicated a lot of time and energy to helping communities affected by the BP oil spill since the catastrophe began. So much so that some national news outlets mistakenly referred to LABB as a non-profit formed and focused solely on oil spill-related issues. [...Read more]

 "Gulf Tides: Oiled Water, Oiled Waste" is the newest video in the Gulf Restoration Network's ongoing series documenting the BP drilling disaster, and delves into the issues of impacted fish populations and oil waste. [...Read more]

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Cross-posted from NRDC Switchboard.

Down in the bayou, Il faut le voir pour le croire (seeing is believing). [...Read more]

Crossposted from The Louisiana Justice Institute's blog.  Image from the Times-Picayune. [...Read more]

By Rocky Kistner.  Cross-posted from NRDC Switchboard. [...Read more]

By Kaye Kiker

RE: OBSTRUCTION OF INDEPENDENT SCIENCE TESTING, PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND PRESS REPORTS IN RELATION TO THE BP OIL DISASTER ON THE GULF COAST

For those of you who do not live on the Gulf Coast nor have access to Concerned Citizens working on the BP oil disaster, I want to share with you my perspective on certain important aspects of the crisis, i.e. the obstruction by authoritative agencies to inhibit and prevent citizen’s efforts to discover the facts for themselves.  What you are about to read and view will shock you. [...Read more]

On the day that BP and coast guard officials were high-fiving each other over permanently killing the well from hell, oil-soaked Plaquemines Parish suffered its third major fish kill in a week. That caused peripatetic parish president Billy Nungesser to take time off from his furious election campaign to blast federal and state officials who seem to find happy news at every turn. [...Read more]

Cross-posted from SBS Dateline

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