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Turkey Creek in USA Today: “For them, Earth Day was late in coming”

My trusty Google alert sent today’s USA Today story that features Turkey Creek. The photo of Derrick Evans in front of his great-grandfather’s house made me think of this one I took a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Derrick and friends from Boston had organized a caravan of relief supplies, and I flew to Birmingham […]
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Environmental Justice for All

My last post was about the community activists and leaders I interviewed during a meeting of the Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network. As I listened to these interviews I was reminded of these comments by Lisa Jackson, U.S. EPA Administrator, at an Environmental Justice Town Hall Meeting in January. A cameraman for my documentary TURKEY CREEK videotaped […]