Coast activists take demands to D.C. Sun Herald Washington Bureau June 1, 2009 WASHINGTON — With a FEMA trailer strategically parked across the street, a coalition of Gulf Coast activists stood outside FEMA headquarters at the start of hurricane season Monday to demand Hurricane Katrina rebuilding and to protest the latest deadline for eviction of […]

In March I learned that the W. K. Kellogg Foundation will be making a grant to support “Turkey Creek” and the launch of The Bridge Project. I’ll be posting something soon about what this will mean, but for now I’m running off to Louisiana to participate in a meeting of the Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities […]

I received this letter from a network of groups organizing a campaign around the Oscar nomination for the incredible documentary “Trouble the Water.” Please go to: www.troublethewaterfilm.com/congress and ask Congress to introduce a bill to help people struggling on the Gulf Coast. Dear friends of the Gulf Coast: More than three years ago, Hurricane Katrina […]

I’ve interviewed two of Gulfport’s mayors while making TURKEY CREEK. In 2003 Mayor Ken Combs sat down with me to explain why he’d called the opponents to a development on 1,300 acres of land in the Turkey Creek watershed “a bunch of dumb bastards” (!). Combs was replaced just a few months before Katrina by […]