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Block the Flows: Defeating Tar Sands in the U.S. and Canada
by Anonymous Across North America, people are mobilizing to choke off the flow of Tar Sands oil, a disastrous project that aims to consolidate massive State and corporate power. Recently the US...
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Restoration and Reality
by Antoine Schlumberger Our Wealth, their Restoration Three years later, we continue to hear that the effects of BP’s gusher aren’t a problem. The Coast Guard has stopped looking for oil from BP’s...
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by Geoff Munsterman 1 Descending through the perfect dark gulf water of the childhood where weekends bait & schoolmates drowned when the adults weren’t watching, I learned my skill for catching...
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The Roosevelt Hotel: Aid & Comfort to our Enemies
Ever since New Orleans’ Roosevelt Hotel re-opened in 2009, an endless series of big-oil executives have been meeting there. This is especially frustrating because the Roosevelt Hotel was the...
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An Introduction to TILT: Death in the Age of Petrochemicals
by Pauline M. Alvar No one has treated as many patients exposed to the oil products in the wake of the BP spill as Dr. Michael Robichaux. Among his successes, Dr. Mike (as his patients affectionately...
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Norco
by D. Acosta photos by Breonne In the predawn morning of May 5th, 1988, the catalytic cracking unit went boom at the Shell Oil Refinery in Norco, Louisiana. The shockwave blossomed out in a twenty-mile...
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Looking South
by T. Mayheart Dardar You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beast of the field, the birds of the heavens,...
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Pelican Briefs
Inspiring actions from all over the globe February 2012 – MEND Rebels Attack Oil Pipeline Rebels from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta attacked and disabled an oil pipeline in their...
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Horoscopes
by Marika Maypop ARIES (March 21-April 19) 2012 was pretty shitty for you, & you’ve entered 2013 with hopes of increased understanding & unlimited prospects. You’re so good at going at it alone...
View ArticleAnarchist All Along
by Pat Huff Anarchy is not a utopian goal to aspire to but rather a reality to be recognized and honed. It is a basic aspect of the human condition that manifests in our daily lives and our relations...
View ArticleCatching Fog in a Net
by Kasandra Larsen We’re too tired to be polite, bound, tied to oily ground, unlike bright clouds. My mouth is full of frogs. You’re thirsty, fishing for honesty, not sentiment. When quiet, lost fog...
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From Bhopal to the Bayous
by Umang Kumar In 2010, we watched with disbelief the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil-leak disaster unfold before our eyes in the Gulf of Mexico. We saw how BP tried to minimize any...
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Over the Dome
by Jules Bentley One afternoon in November 1980, placid, shallow Lake Peigneur in New Iberia, Louisiana changed first into a swirling whirpool of mud and then into a terrifying 150-foot waterfall. In...
View ArticleTheir Failures Need to Make us Worried
by Izzy Oneiric It’s still there In the water On sediment On seafloor Being eaten Dispersant waves What we don’t have Is the light. I was sent to read a letter To make sure they knew We knew...
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How to Build a Skatepark: Big Beverage vs. DIY in New Orleans
by Nathan Tempey It’s a windy, cold Saturday in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. Joe Billizon and Abanobi Lawes are at their local skateboard park, skating to stay warm. They take turns riding...
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A Land Called Louisiana, part II: Undermining Slavery from the Cypress Swamps
by M.G. Houzeau Click here to read part I, “From Self-Sufficiency to Enslavement in the Market.” They chased, they hunted him with dogs They fired a rifle at him. They dragged him from the cypress...
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Fucked Either Way: the Double-Bind of Seafood Safety
by Hanx Clawmachine Another friend has quit the seafood business: he doesn’t eat it and won’t sell it. Not only has he seen firsthand the damage done by millions of barrels of BP oil and the...
View ArticleCreole Tomatoes
by Geoff Munsterman Ripped from the vine once its color comes delightfully close to rosy, it’s sent north to flourish or rot—chambers never stiffening. Fat & thin-skinned, the basin silt filters a...
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Interview with a Tar Sands Blockader
by R. Shoalgrass RP: Tell us about yourself and why you’re resisting the Keystone XL pipeline. I’m a long-time resident of the great city of New Orleans. I’ve left my city for the time being after...
View ArticleFrom Space, We Still Look Blue
by Kasandra Larsen In Louisiana, an expert: we’re not seeing catastrophic impacts. In China, a submerged fireman can’t move: he’s pulled from toxic soup, dripping ooze. I don’t drive, but I’m...
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