bridge the gulf

Editor's Note: Bridge The Gulf was recently featured on the State of the Re:Union website, in an interview about community journalism on the Gulf Coast.  Check it [...Read more]

Washington D.C., our nation’s capital; The land of big embassies, big politics, big corporations, and don’t forget, big polluters. 

On April 15th -18th, Washington D.C. was also home to Power Shift 2011, a youth climate summit and organizer trainer.  [...Read more]

When I heard that The Daily Show was sending one of its "correspondents" to Turkey Creek (in coastal Gulfport, Mississippi), I tried to imagine how a brief satirical “news” segment might shed light on a story I take seriously, and one that I've been documenting on video for more than a decade (read about the Turkey Creek documentary here). [...Read more]

Darla Rooks is a bayou fisherman to the core. When she married Todd 20 years ago, she wore her white plastic fishing boots under her wedding dress. Todd and Darla love shrimping in the coastal waters of Louisiana the way cowboys love riding the west Texas range.  It's in their blood—a  calling passed down through the generations—a  lifestyle they hope to pass on to their grandkids. [...Read more]

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Dana Solet is one of the coordinators of the United Houma Nation's Youth Media Team, and her excitement about using new media is contagious. [...Read more]

Today President Obama ate a heaping plate of Gulf shrimp at the White House, in an effort to assure America that the Gulf Coast is open for business.
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