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Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico | Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

dale-estey's picture
Jun.11.2010
Kafka on the GulfA New Orleans resident reflects on how the Czech master prepared him for the oil spill Pelican, East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, June 4, 2010. CREDIT: Win McNamee/Getty Images   Here in New Orleans, faith and doubt wrestle daily. This has always been true for our vulnerable...
connie-may-fowler's picture
Jun.09.2010
I live on the edge of the world: a peninsular sandbar in the northern Gulf of Mexico in Franklin County, Florida.  For generations we have, directly and indirectly, depended on the sea’s bounty for our living.  Red tides, hurricanes, and pollution flowing downriver from population centers to...
clinton-fein's picture
May.05.2010
Enviroviticus Out of the fumes that choke us,Black as the Soot from oil to drill,We curse whatever gods may beFor environmentalists shrill. Amidst the stench of weeping barkWith brazen chop and pious pave.Under the ozoneless of skiesWe damn the soil, dehydrate your grave. Beyond this place of...