I am writing this on the eve of April 28, International Workers Memorial Day, to explain why Bhopal should never be forgotten. I am a commercial fisherwoman from Texas and Union Carbide (now Dow) has existed outside my fishing village of Seadrift since I was born. I never knew about Bhopal until the day Union Carbide blew up near my hometown.
"The Civil Rights Summit" takes place at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas from April 8-10th. Presidents Carter, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama will speak.
The topics include "Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement" and "LBJ and MLK Fulfilling a Promise, Realizing a Dream." Pretty heady, right?
On Monday December 3rd, Diane Wilson walked out of the Harris County Jail a free woman after being arrested for blockading a Valero Refinery. But her act of civil disobedience didn't end there: she's been on a hunger strike for 13 days, and says she won't stop until Valero divests from the Keystone XL pipeline.
“We are part of America. We are a major city in America, but we do not need to be the sacrifice zone for the nation,” states Houston resident Juan Parras (pictured).
Parras joins a growing contingent of Houston residents concerned about the overburdening of minority and low-income communities in the area with the ill effects of energy production.
Originally posted in the San Antonio Current, October 25th, 2012. WINFIELD, Texas — The Price family in Winfield woke up to a world of protestors yesterday morning as the struggle for Texas landowner and environmental rights made its way further across rural East Texas and the proposed Keys
By the time you read this I will be actively engaged in a non-violent direct action designed to bring awareness to the construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline, to this country's continuing use of our cherished Gulf Coast as the nation's energy sacrifice zone, and in defense of our Mother Earth.
If TransCanada has its way, almost 1.1 million barrels of tar sands oil - the world’s dirtiest, most toxic, and most difficult-to-clean-up-when-it-spills oil - will roll down the Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico.
Two controversial stories hit home on the Gulf last week: One, concerning the ill-advised but fated Keystone XL pipeline, which President Obama decided to greenlight the southern portion of, directly impacting the Gulf; and another concerning the troublesome trend of young, African-American males losing their lives after mostly trivial encounters with law enforcement officials, or those pretending to be.
With news that President Obama will fast track the building of the southern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Texans in its path say their health and property rights are endangered by a torrent of corrosive tar sands oil from Canada.
On Monday December 3rd, Diane Wilson 
“We are part of America. We are a major city in America, but we do not need to be the sacrifice zone for the nation,” states Houston resident Juan Parras (pictured).
Originally posted in the San Antonio Current,
By the time you read this I will be actively engaged in a non-violent direct action designed to bring awareness to the construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline, to this country's continuing use of our cherished Gulf Coast as the nation's energy sacrifice zone, and in defense of our Mother Earth.
If TransCanada has its way, almost 1.1 million barrels of tar sands oil - the world’s dirtiest, most toxic, and most difficult-to-clean-up-when-it-spills oil - will roll down the Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico.
Two controversial stories hit home on the Gulf last week: One, concerning the ill-advised but fated Keystone XL pipeline, which President Obama decided to greenlight the southern portion of, directly impacting the Gulf; and another concerning the troublesome trend of young, African-American males losing their lives after mostly trivial encounters with law enforcement officials, or those pretending to be.
