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o L S.history, wasrelocated Shell by in 2002 after residents hadbeen The towns of Diamond, Morrisonville, Sunrise and Revilletown of by the The descendants participants founded town of Diamond, “We make the mistake of thinking this is something new,” This This is not the thefirst lives destroyed have time thatcorporations “Thecultural losses asconsequence a the of BP disaster are going Harden and Walker point out that at least five . rophe. ago and current residents describe the ongoing oil geyser as just the lat- the just as geyser oil ongoing the describe residents current and ago “The disenfranchisement. and displacement of history long a in step est leader community explains elders,” our respected never companies oil land.” our respect did never they “And Dardar. Theresa to to manufacture, process, store and discharge toxic andsubstances hazardouswithin Mossville. Fourteen facilities are now located in the small town, and 91 percent of residents have reportedone health at leastproblem related to exposure to chemicals the local industry.produced by — all founded by former slaves — met similar fates. After years of chemical-related poisoning, the remaining residents have been relo- theirland.own now out themcorporationsthe drovecated, thatand In most cases, only a cemetery remains, and former residents must pass through plant security visit to their relatives’ graves. of the Rebellion1811 to U exposed to toxic chemicals for decades. Morrisonville, established by former slaves in 1790, was bought out by Dow Chemical Com- pany in 1989. Residents of Sunrise,Placid the inaugurated against nearlawsuit a Batonresult of the as Rouge move to paid were 1874, in about ofcomplaints years after In the mid-1990s, Refining Company. Gulf Corpora- Georgia producer plastics and chemical air quality, the started had families Black freed that town a Revilletown, acquired tion War. Civil the after years the in Harden says. Americans along Bayou Pointe-au-Chien, south of the town of Houma, Houma, of town the of south Pointe-au-Chien, Bayou along Americans on Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe is a small band of French-speaking NOT French-speaking of band small a is Tribe Indian Pointe-au-Chien By Jordan Flaherty A Orleans-based Advocates for for Advocates Orleans-based — all majority African-American — have been eradicated due to 1930s, the state of the beginning. From the bayous of southern southern of bayous the From beginning. the devastation, environmental only not represents disaster this fear many here lives their made have who peoples for extinction cultural also but generations. for of and communities pollu- the and coast, the by lived who many displaced already has nies the state across communities has poisoned plants treatment from tion along facilities industrial of corridor the alley,” “cancer in especially — Rouge. Baton of south River Mississippi the to be astronomical,” says otherno culture like hope they won’t be entirely erased.” Walker and nique co-directorHarden say this Mo- disaster represents an unparalleled catastrophe for people across the region, but they long-standing also see pattern it of as oil part and of chemical a people corporations color from of their homes. displacing a Louisiana environmental justice advocate t s a t “How “How do you deal with this hemorrhaging in the bottom of the gulf that seems endless? That is just scary as hell. I’ve been having it.” about nightmares Cultural Extinction Cultural h by h by t The n and ca uador for uador visit indypendent.org visit uisiana in c o E L o ow deaow l uisiana uisiana economy ti o L s a n i st Timorese, another coastal coastal another Timorese, st a E m a t face a face For a comprehensive look into these disasters, disasters, these into look comprehensive a For w Deal in Reverse, a book on New Or- Another model from which we can learn is can learn we which from model Another e s N leans’ public services “petro-populism” from Huey to post-Katrina Long’s eral restructuring neolib- and destruction. without further reducing its people’s resources resources people’s its reducing further without income. and Brian Marks, from Terrebonne Parish, La., candidate PhD isa ingeography Uni-atthe versity of Arizona. He is currently writing(with co-author Christian Roselund) keeping keeping a huge oil reserve in the ground in exchange for payments based on the carbon emissions avoided by its preservation. This could lead to alliances between environmen- un- because residents, Gulf coastal and talists on the based offsets conservation like carbon the deal here forests, of does not involve the enclosure of land from use by local people, but the enclosure of sub-soil resources from access by multinationals. Such a would return vital proposal revenues to order to restore the coastal as well as residents, protect directly reducing wetlands and of consumption in the carbon of emission the begin trans- to could a proposal Such the oil. form the oil-dependent people people who are fightingto control theiroff- year last just who and resources energy shore in spill oil huge and blowout offshore an faced Sea. Timor the put the forth by proposal recent tionalist” redistribution of the redistribution tionalist” huge revenues from energy At production. a minimum, we should not allow the oil and gas industry to the elsewhere recreate to simply Gulf the leave conditions of unregulated, rapacious extrac- Rath- Horizon. Deepwater the to led that tion pull companies oil the that demanding than er their out investments of the Gulf, we should take a global perspective, the organizing like people with e ui- o ti uisi- L o i L n, con n, geria, Bra- o uisiana for i o N L ti a w Orleans: conve- IONS e T z N U i

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The talk of freez- ing offshore drilling sounds to them much like those arguments just after Katrina for simply abandoning stor He sells the oysters to a local distributor who provides seafood for New Orleans restaurants and otherthe country. locations around As the oil spill worsens, his future is uncertain. PHOTO: SHAWN ESCOFFERY / shawnescoffery.com afraid this spill will cause mass layoffs due to disinvestment by the global oilwhich can majors, shift operations to 21T The demand by some groups to shut down offshore drilling divides ent environmentalists from tation and the future of the offshore indus- anger sharpof sensea provoked hasitselftry and exasperation at BP and the federal government’s mismanagement the of industry. shore drilling rings a bit hollow in siana, for the restconsumes of the nation readily Gulf commun Gulf g nd in Sight in nd E o o N 8 June 23 - July 20, 2010 The Indypendent they could get shrimp [in Alaska].” she could get they shrimp And, before years 17 was “It says. Theresa ing,” fish- without be we’ll long how know don’t 1989 the of math after- the in experience their discussed who had met with indigenous natives from Alaska, homes. to their addition in traditions, and language their losing of spoke They tions. corpora- and government by the abused and abandoned feeling described They munity. com- their through runs that road main the the gulfdisaster gathered at the the at gathered residents few a Sunday, recent a On tions. genera- for living been had they lifestyle the of Pointe-au-Chien coffin the in nail another as news saw the of members had begun, it even before canceled was season fishing nearby of shores the on up rights. land of their tion which would offer some recognition, protec- official tribe the refused have governments federal and state the companies, oil by ing lobby- of result a as partly least re- At course. legal little have they found have tribes erosion. soil accelerates and forest the kills which water, salt in allowed have nals ca- The leadership. tribe’s the of member a and Theresa’s husband Dardar, Donald says wider,” and wider getting it and keeps little, a cut they in, come “They reserves. more oil for search their in homes and marshes creating ests, for- through canals of communities, miles 10,000 about these devastated have companies the these decades, Over several past distance. and language by isolated were that coast the on living munities com- by held land to claim laid companies 7 page from Continued o Fear Sitting on a Sitting church pew, said they Theresa So late in May, when oil started washing washing started oil when May, in late So other and Pointe-au-Chien Meanwhile, oil the century, this of part early the In f No No L i ve Oak Baptist Church on on Church Baptist Oak ve R E x ec xon Valdez spill. “We spill. 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Jerusalem Post L , 7/20/06), its response is Los Angeles Times (6 , 6/6/10) The New York Times u see, Israel made the mistake st conflict: While we should S. ambassador Israelto explains So the next time there is news We come We to one of the most im- All these questions miss the Arie . o a WP CNN treat Israeli perceptions ity, as real- Palestinians’ realityperception that is is up for just For example, debate.“Palestinians say the restrictions on food imports and construction materials have ated a cre-humanitarian crisis” ( only limited by the imagination.After all, according to the Obama administration, “the president has always said it will be much easier for Israel to make peace if feels Israel secure” (abc And how does Israel feel? “Israel seenitselfhaslongtheAlamo, as a fortress under the siege,” a former U E nessWeek about Israel killing activists, mas- sacring children, bombing a refugee camp or perhaps obliterating an entire country, there is no need The “facts.” the attention to pay to only reality you should consider is that Israel, the eternal victim that will never feel secure, is sponding just to re- some terrorist’s outrage. And once the last “ruthless, indiscriminateanimal” isextermi- nated, there will be “peace.” This article was adapted longer from version a published by alter- net.org. Research assistance provided by Susie Rivo. died literally hours before the raid on the flotilla,put it best in an interview six years ago, saying, “We acted as they would to us” have ( done While he was speaking about Is- rael’s founding war of aggression, the statement justifies every Israeli atrocity since and 1947 any future one. Since Israel “ruthless,indiscriminate is animals” confronting ( ( portant principles of the Middle deadly weapons” (Ma Y “granddaddies of the Israeli founder of anda Agency, 6/12/10)? stillpoint.isvictim,Israel the even if it’s a “self-inflictedwound,” so say and of trying to justify its actions with evidence. It forgot that reality has a well-known terrorist bias. 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The Israeli navy spent preparingweeks… “manymeet to the flotilla” ( Israel “walked into a trap set a by flotilla of ers” (6 Hamas sympathiz- fromthe nent media all conclude that gold- en-hearted Israel was duped, such is the “blatant double standard” ( Times into a trap; from the into a Turkish trap (6 … into (6 a trap” it it “fell into a trap” (6 the S. . slie U e L 1/10). 1/10). / st st that a , 6/2/10)., E Jerusalem The Guard-The NYT ited States and Jerusalem Post n U bel Peace Prizelau- Peace bel o is is also “an Iranian

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