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*Washington, DC - Three weeks after protesting outside British Petroleum (BP) headquarters in London, Dick Gregory, Art Rocker and a delegation of other leading activists will protest outside the office of Ken Feinberg, administrator of the oil giant’s $20 billion compensation fund for victims of its historic Gulf Coast oil spill. The protest is set [...]
*What in the hell is going on over at British Petroleum, affectionately known as BP? First they are responsible for one of the largest disasters in oceanic history with millions of gallons of their oil spilled into the Gulf and now they’re caught secretly making oil sales with Iran. According to the Huffington Post, they could [...]
*From April 20 to July 15, the BP oil spill dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf. The residuals are in the form of massive levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), with some of them containing cancer causing agents or carcinogens. It hasn’t been completely confirmed whether the agents have been found in the wildlife, but blue crab [...]
*Crime is down in Grand Isle, Louisiana, but residents of that small, predominately white fishing town still feel threatened. The presence of nearly 1,000 Gulf oil spill cleanup workers – many of them black and Latino – has so unnerved and angered townsfolk that some of them have taken to flying Confederate flags [...]
*President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans later this month to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said Friday, Obama will travel on Aug. 29 to Louisiana’s largest city, and “members of the president’s cabinet who’ve worked to speed recovery and restoration efforts in the region also will be in New [...]
*The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Arts and Entertainment Task Force, screening of a 90 minutes version of director Spike Lee’s new HBO documentary, “If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise,” at Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego, California was a standing room only event. The complete HBO film is set to [...]
*If it wasn’t enough that BP was basically trying to kill off every living creature in the Gulf, the chief operations officer, is encouraging seafood eaters to consume their toxic waste product in the form of Gulf fish. Doug Suttles told the public that he would “absolutely” eat Gulf seafood. He says that the National [...]
*The NAACP has accused BP of disproportionately assigning its most hazardous, low-paying cleanup jobs to minorities and wants to meet immediately with Tony Hayward to address the problem. In correspondence to Hayward dated July 8, NAACP president Benjamin Jealous outlined a number of concerns related to BP’s treatment of minorities, including allegations that “contractors of [...]
*The White House seems to be doing, well, nothing really about the oil spill in the Gulf. Maybe a few visits here and there from vice president, other officials, and now from the first lady. Critics, consumers, and heck … America are peeved of the lack of action the government has made on behalf of [...]
*Energy conglomerate BP, in its continuing efforts to clean up the tragic mess it made in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond, recently announced it is open to ideas from the general public and private industry. The corporation says it has received thousands of ideas, but very few seem viable. Here’s my suggestion to [...]
*Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you find out that you haven’t. It is difficult to process in a time of tragedy how some can politicize the moment. The Gulf Coast Region of the United States is encountering another disaster of monumental proportions. It’s not from a natural disaster created by an act [...]
*Oprah made a surprise visit to the inaugural class of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta on Wednesday for their eighth grade graduation. Winfrey, who has donated nearly $2 million to the private school since it opened three years ago [see clip below], was one of several celebs on hand to personally congratulate the Class [...]
*During BP’s apology to the American people today for causing the worst environmental accident in the nation’s history, the company’s chairman sparked even more outrage when he referred to those affected by the disaster as “the small people.” Following a four-hour meeting today with President Barack Obama, BP agreed to set up a $20 billion [...]
*Tuesday night President Obama accused BP of “recklessness” in the first Oval Office address of his presidency and swore not to rest until the company has paid for the damage it has caused to lives, businesses, and shorelines. He announced that he had asked former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus to develop a long-term Gulf Coast [...]
*President Barack Obama will make his fourth visit to the Gulf region on Monday and Tuesday, and then address the nation on Tuesday night from the White House regarding federal response to the environmental catastrophe caused by the oil spill, his senior adviser said Sunday. Obama will make stops in Theodore, Alabama; Gulfport, Mississippi, and [...]
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