Dr. Beverly Wright on Rachel Maddow: oil, jobs, and the most positive thing she's heard in last 20 years The poor and less powerful, even when visible and loud, are often ignored By Roberta AvilaOriginally published in the Sun Herald, August 24th, 2010 In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina I became the director for the Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force and was thrown headlong into disaster recovery work. Change from Within: Three Stories from New Orleans Crossposted from Open Society Foundations. Oily mix and tar balls pollute waters near Dauphin Island, AL Crossposted from NRDC's Swithboard.By Rocky Kistner Summer of Tears The boat ride, out, from Lafitte, Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010, to our fishing grounds was not unlike any other I have taken in my life, as a commercial fisherman from this area. I have made the trip thousands of times in my 35 plus years shrimping and crabbing. A warm breeze in my face, it is a typical Louisiana summer day. 3 people were with me, my wife Tracy, Ian Wren, and our grandson, Scottie. I was so Fishermen's concerns featured on Democracy Now! Yesterday the journalist Dahr Jamail appeared on the news show Democracy Now! to discuss fishermen's ongoing concerns about oil and dispersants in the Gulf. Jamail discusses finding dispersants and oil in the Mississippi Sound with James "Catfish" Miller and Mark Stewart, the fishermen who took Bridge the Gulf out on a similar trip a couple weeks ago. A Crisis of Democracy: Real Solutions to the BP Oil Spill For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear. Gulf Coast Fund Reports 53 Million Gallons of Oil Remain in Gulf, Disaster Not Over Mental Health Crisis Looms as Jobs Disappear; Toxic Dispersant Still Being Used: Unsafe Seafood Threatens Commercial Fishing and Human Health; Dead Wildlife Washing Ashore Dispersant controversy, oil plumes persist in the Gulf (by Rocky Kistner) Crossposted from NRDC Switchboard. Down a winding road that hugs the water of Bayou La Batre in southern Alabama, out-of-work shrimp boats float quietly along the piers. Near the end of the road, the Alabama state dock houses a dozen twin-engine, steel-hulled boats that BP has under contract to do oil cleanup work. Police cars guard the entrance. Getting Hot in Mississippi: Fishermen advocates confront Gov. Barbour This message comes from Delores Suarez, a citizen advocate working with fishermen on the Gulf Coast. In her message she refers to: Dr. William (Bill) Walker, Director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Mark Stewart, Mississippi fisherman, Richard Gollott, Mississippi's Department of Marine Resources commissioner for the commercial seafood industry, and Linda St. Martin, former Shrimp boat owner working with the Sierra Club. Pages« first ‹ previous … 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 next › last »
The poor and less powerful, even when visible and loud, are often ignored By Roberta AvilaOriginally published in the Sun Herald, August 24th, 2010 In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina I became the director for the Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force and was thrown headlong into disaster recovery work.
Oily mix and tar balls pollute waters near Dauphin Island, AL Crossposted from NRDC's Swithboard.By Rocky Kistner
Summer of Tears The boat ride, out, from Lafitte, Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010, to our fishing grounds was not unlike any other I have taken in my life, as a commercial fisherman from this area. I have made the trip thousands of times in my 35 plus years shrimping and crabbing. A warm breeze in my face, it is a typical Louisiana summer day. 3 people were with me, my wife Tracy, Ian Wren, and our grandson, Scottie. I was so
Fishermen's concerns featured on Democracy Now! Yesterday the journalist Dahr Jamail appeared on the news show Democracy Now! to discuss fishermen's ongoing concerns about oil and dispersants in the Gulf. Jamail discusses finding dispersants and oil in the Mississippi Sound with James "Catfish" Miller and Mark Stewart, the fishermen who took Bridge the Gulf out on a similar trip a couple weeks ago.
A Crisis of Democracy: Real Solutions to the BP Oil Spill For Gulf residents, the BP oil spill has made the problem of unchecked corporate power painfully clear.
Gulf Coast Fund Reports 53 Million Gallons of Oil Remain in Gulf, Disaster Not Over Mental Health Crisis Looms as Jobs Disappear; Toxic Dispersant Still Being Used: Unsafe Seafood Threatens Commercial Fishing and Human Health; Dead Wildlife Washing Ashore
Dispersant controversy, oil plumes persist in the Gulf (by Rocky Kistner) Crossposted from NRDC Switchboard. Down a winding road that hugs the water of Bayou La Batre in southern Alabama, out-of-work shrimp boats float quietly along the piers. Near the end of the road, the Alabama state dock houses a dozen twin-engine, steel-hulled boats that BP has under contract to do oil cleanup work. Police cars guard the entrance.
Getting Hot in Mississippi: Fishermen advocates confront Gov. Barbour This message comes from Delores Suarez, a citizen advocate working with fishermen on the Gulf Coast. In her message she refers to: Dr. William (Bill) Walker, Director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Mark Stewart, Mississippi fisherman, Richard Gollott, Mississippi's Department of Marine Resources commissioner for the commercial seafood industry, and Linda St. Martin, former Shrimp boat owner working with the Sierra Club.
