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Gulf Coast Residents Meet to Establish Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council, Oil Industry Declines to Participate

By Dr. Bonny Schumaker and Dr. Rick Steiner.  Residents from across the Gulf Coast met last week to forge ahead with formal establishment of a Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (GoM RCAC), whose purpose is to empower and involve citizens in the prevention of and effective response to future pollution incidents occurring from oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. [...Read more]

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Librotraficante Update: 1 Year Anniversary of the Underground Library in San Antonio!

banned booksCrossposted from the Southwest Workers Union. On March 12, 2012 the Librotraficante caravan [from Houston, Texas] made its first stop in San Antonio with banned books in tow. [...Read more]

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Urban Congress to End Criminalization

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Chelsea Grayson

Gulf Coast Community Organizations Still Deserve Applause for RESTORE Act

On March 14,  the U.S. Senate approved a $109 billion transportation bill that includes the RESTORE Act,  which directs 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the 2010 BP oil disaster to the five Gulf States – Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. [...Read more]

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Stephen Bradberry

Report from the road: Librotraficantes smuggle banned books into Arizona

After the state of Arizona banned ethnic studies, Tucson school district followed suit and pulled a number of books, mostly by [...Read more]

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Tearing down the walls

hand on wallA wonderful man passed away several months ago. He was my publisher for the newspapers I write for, and he was a friend to me. I miss his spirit here among us.  [...Read more]

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Cherri Foytlin

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

Are you an activist?

cherri foytlinOn the day that we picked that oiled pelican out of the water near Barrataria Bay, my life changed forever. I know people say that often, but it’s only because our lives are often changing direction. But that day was a dramatic change for me. [...Read more]

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Cherri Foytlin

Mid Continent Oil and Gas Association Scared of Kazoos, Song Sheets and Huey Long

huey longPress release from Sons and Daughters of the Kingfish, January 25th, 2012. NEW ORLEANS - The Huey Long flash mob assembled today to celebrate Huey Long’s defense of Louisiana is currently being denied access by police and hotel personnel at the Roosevelt. [...Read more]

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A short up-to-date guide for citizen activists and other heroes who love the Gulf of Mexico

tarball expressI wish to commend you on your continuing work on behalf of the people still being affected by the 2010 BP Oil Catastrophe. As you know, on a daily basis the lifeless corpses of birds, fish, turtles and dolphins wash up at some 10 times the usual mortality rate. Thick, black, sticky, toxic oil continues to come in, often accompanied by a bubbly, peanut butter colored dispersant/oil cocktail.
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