Voices of the Gulf

Thank you for letting me understand
homelessness, living without power,
without television, without cool air in the heat.
Thank you for letting me understand
hunger, the pleasure of dry clean clothes and
the relief of place to sleep.
 
Thank you for letting me understand
the deep and overwhelming sadness
when forces, beyond our personal control, [...Read more]

Crossposted from Truthout
By Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld [...Read more]

I wanted to share this blog entry from the Expedition Blue Planet team.  I was fortunate to spend some time with them on the boat with "Catfish", Danny and Mark.

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Gulfport native and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey wrote a moving op-ed in the NY Times today,  "Our Loss, Through The Eye of The Storm."  Here's an excerpt: [...Read more]

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