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Voices of the Gulf

How a radio station in Alabama is taking on the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant law (Part One)

kids at anti hb 56 rally A year ago, Orlando Rosa was broadcasting music and setting up on-air talent for La Jefa, the largest Spanish-language radio station in Alabama. Then, in June, Governor Robert Bentley signed into law HB 56, on paper the strictest state law for criminalizing undocumented immigrants. [...Read more]

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Ada McMahon

A History of Violence: The BP Oil Spill Trial

bad pollutionLast week, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier decided that in the civil trial against BP for their oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil company’s history of accidents and poor safety records won’t be admissible as evidence. Maybe that’s appropriate; I’m no legal expert so I can’t make that call. [...Read more]

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Brentin Mock

Including local communities in coastal restoration

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Tracy Kuhns

No Safe Harbor in Alabama

for rent?By Hannah Adams, crossposted from The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Blog A little over four months ago a federal judge upheld most parts of the nation’s harshest anti-immigration law to date- Alabama’s infamous House Bill 56 (HB 56). [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

The Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court

justiceThey are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.”  And why shouldn’t they? It is the biggest environmental disaster in American history; in fact, the largest in the history of the oil industry - ever.
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Cherri Foytlin

Time of trials for BP?

Crossposted from Facing South. Date on which the Gulf oil spill trial is scheduled to begin in New Orleans unless a settlement is reached: 2/27/2012 [...Read more]

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Sue Sturgis

Hope at last! The Gulf Coast Detoxification Project is open and results are looking GREAT!

gulf coast detoxification program logoBy the Louisiana Environmental Action Network. Health Concerns have gone unaddressed for too long. Detoxification program providing first sign of real solutions. 
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Bridge The Gulf

Houston writers & activists organize a caravan of Librotraficantes to smuggle contraband books back into Arizona

librotraficantesHOUSTON, TEXAS - Local literary nonprofit Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say is organizing The Librotraficantes Banned Book Caravan from Houston, Texas to Tucson, Arizona leaving Houston on Monday, March 12 and culminating in Tucson, Arizona Saturday, March 17. [...Read more]

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Liana Lopez

What does gender have to do with housing?


shana griffin and gary perryThis article is adapted from my comments on the panel “Laying the Groundwork:  Why do we need to understand gender to understand the major housing issues of our day?” with Gary Perry of Seattle University, and Charmel Gaulden with the Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center. [...Read more]

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Shana griffin

"Exhale and welcome the change" - My interview with HealaSister.com

sharon hanshawI recently shared a bit of my life story with the website H.E.A.L. a Sister (tagline: dedicated to the well-being of all women). Please take a look:

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