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Bayou La Batre, Alabama - Like so many on the Gulf Coast, Ana Chau is dealing with two disasters.

This time last year, she and her husband made their living shucking oysters.  Now they are out of work, their industry crippled indefinitely by the millions of gallons of crude oil and toxic dispersant dumped into the Gulf of Mexico by BP.

Experts, fishermen and residents disagree with federal agencies' claims that the Gulf and its seafood are safe. By Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English 

By Kate Rogers, Crossposted from The NonProfit Times

Speech by Karen Hopkins delivered at the Rally for Gulf Change.  Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/30/10.

Speech from the Gulf Change Rally. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/30/10.

This summer I have traveled the coast witnessing, reporting and documenting the effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Catastrophe.

Speech by Susan Felio Price from Rally for Gulf Change, 10/30/2010, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Good afternoon! I'm Susan Felio Price, owner of a marine vessel repair business in Chauvin, La., mother, grandmother and a child advocate for 10 years.

As I stand before you today my heart is heavily burdened....my mind is troubled...

By Laura Parker, AOLnews.com.

(Oct. 25) -- "With Katrina, we knew what we had to do," Marla Cooper, of Venice, La., says a few minutes into "Crude Justice," a new 17-minute film about the BP oil spill. "We rebuilt. But for this, how do we rebuild?"

By Dahr Jamail, originally published on Al Jazeera

Denise Rednour of Long Beach, Mississippi, has been sick with chemical poisoning since July [Erika Blumenfeld] 

Over six months have passed since the devastating loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20 of this year,11 good men: Roy Wyatt Kemp, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Karl Kleppinger, Adam Weise and Gordon Jones; lost their lives in a few moments at sea.