The national wave of “Occupy” actions, begun on Wall Street in September, has spread to New Orleans.“Occupy NOLA” began with an almost joyous march through the city, and continues now in a more than two-week-old encampment outside of City Hall.
Last Friday in New Orleans’ French Quarter, chants of “Justice for Troy” and “Too much Doubt! Let him out!” interrupted the early-evening partiers and tourists.
A march, about 100 strong, wound its way through the Quarter, calling for justice for Troy Davis and the abolition of the death penalty. Davis is scheduled to be executed this Wednesday, September 21st, despite considerable doubt about his guilt.
Originally published on TheLoop21.com. A year ago today, BP capped the blown-out Macondo well, stopping the flood of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
“Feinberg says no claims filed on cleanup illnesses,” ran an erroneous Associated Press headline last week, stirring up more mistrust of the BP claims process among Gulf Coast residents. It is simply not true that sick cleanup workers have not filed medical claims with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF), administered by Kenneth Feinberg. Rather, Feinberg and the GCCF appear to be categorically
When the BP oil disaster began, writer, activist, and oil industry expert Antonia Juhasz traveled to the Gulf Coast, where she followed the response efforts and interviewed dozens of government officials, community leaders, fishermen, scientists, and coastal residents.
On a beautiful late afternoon in early May, Dedrick Benison and Michael Calvin are quietly surveying the house that came crashing down around them just a week before. On April 27th they were watching a movie here, a neighbor’s house on the catfish farm where the men live and work, near Forkland, Alabama. Moments later a tornado collapsed the roof and ripped off the kitchen wall, sending furniture and splintered wood flying.
“I hate disasters,” Derrick Evans has said grumpily and repeatedly over the past several days. As a resident of coastal Mississippi and a Gulf Coast advocate, Evans has been through situations like this before – Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike, BP, to name a few.
AndreGaines of Lucedale, Mississippi, a former BP oil disaster clean-up worker who has fallen ill, rallies thousands of youth outside of BP's lobbying headquarters.
On Monday, April 18th, Tax Day, thousands of youth marched on BP's offices in Washington, and demanded they pay the $9.9 Billion in taxes they are dodging by writing off loses from their own oil disaster.
New Orleans, LA - More than 100 youth and community members from the Gulf Coast are on their way to Washington D.C. today to bring a unified messaged to Congress and the President: the BP oil disaster is not over.
The occasion is Power Shift 2011, a youth climate summit expected to attract 10,000, for four days of workshops, training, and action in front of the White House and on Capitol Hill.
The national wave of “Occupy” actions, begun on Wall Street in September, has spread to New Orleans.
Last Friday in New Orleans’ French Quarter, chants of “Justice for Troy” and “Too much Doubt! Let him out!” interrupted the early-evening partiers and tourists.
Originally published on TheLoop21.com
On Wednesday, about 300 fishermen rallied on the steps of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, in protest of the ongoing impacts of the BP disaster.
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When the BP oil disaster began, writer, activist, and oil industry expert Antonia Juhasz traveled to the Gulf Coast, where she followed the response efforts and interviewed dozens of government officials, community leaders, fishermen, scientists, and coastal residents.
On a beautiful late afternoon in early May, Dedrick Benison and Michael Calvin are quietly surveying the house that came crashing down around them just a week before. On April 27th they were watching a movie here, a neighbor’s house on the catfish farm where the men live and work, near Forkland, Alabama. Moments later a tornado collapsed the roof and ripped off the kitchen wall, sending furniture and splintered wood flying.
“I hate disasters,” Derrick Evans has said grumpily and repeatedly over the past several days. As a resident of coastal Mississippi and a Gulf Coast advocate, Evans has been through situations like this before – Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike, BP, to name a few. 
New Orleans, LA - More than 100 youth and community members from the Gulf Coast are on their way to Washington D.C. today to bring a unified messaged to Congress and the President: the BP oil disaster is not over.
