“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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
Well, the walk is well under way and I have been wanting to write to you all and tell you the wonderful things that have been happening, as well as the discouraging things I have learned. Until now I just have been too pooped to pop.
First thing is that I have seen some wonderous and amazing things. We have a beautiful country.
Fresh Louisiana crude washed into the beaches and dock areas near Grand Isle over the weekend, creating a sickening sight for the residents of this oil battered region. The reddish brown crude and oily sheen lapped onto the sandy and rocky shores, while some people flocked to Grand Isle’s famous white beaches for spring break unaware of the oily assault nearby.
“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.
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. 
As a resident of coastal Mississippi for more than 30 years, Shirley 
By Jacqui Patterson, 
Well, 