Bridge The Gulf

23/01/2024

Hey Gulf Coast Fam, Bryan here. I wanted to share this page and story with you.

Please follow the page Preservation Pause and check out this op-ed by Talbert Cypress.

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has a plan to stop the drilling and protect the aquifer.

23/04/2023

Thanks to your advocacy, the EPA is looking into SSM events in these states…Thank EPA for Telling States to Close Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction (SSM) Loopholes in LA, TX, TN, CT, WI, NC, and ME. . Consider dropping a comment in support.

EPA allows industrial facilities to ignore normal permit limits and release deadly air pollution any time a facility starts-up, shuts-downs, or experiences a malfunction. This harms people, and must be stopped.

16/11/2022

Rest in Power, Joye Braun. 💔

"The unfortunate truths are that not everything can be fixed, and there is no timeline to grief. So many of us who loved her will never really be able to move on without her. Only forward, with her behind us now, joining the ancestors and releasing to us all her spirit of resistance, peace, and yes – joy."

Read more here: https://mailchi.mp/d229537de029/on-losing-eagle-feather-woman?e=[UNIQID]

17/10/2022

Descendant, an acclaimed new documentary about the Clotilda slave ship and the Africatown community, will be showing for one night only at the Seanger Theater. Tickets are free, but you must register ahead of time to enter, and TICKETS WILL GO VERY FAST, so if you want one, please don't hesitate.

All tickets are general admission.

The film will also be available at the Crescent Theater on Dauphin Street downtown starting October 23.

Gala on Saturday follows start of Netflix streaming on Friday

29/09/2022

The Descendant documentary trailer is out now. See why so many are talking about this special film about the historic Africatown community in Mobile County, Alabama.

Descendant tells the story of the Clotilda - the last known ship to smuggle stolen Africans to America - the unthinkable cover-up, and the impact of that cri...

25/05/2022

"Ruth Ballard, a lifelong resident of Africatown, said she is hopeful that the decision will spark a change for her community.

“I’m happy that the EPA is providing a second look at these sorts of permits that are detrimental to public health,” Ballard said in a news release. “The status quo hasn’t been acceptable for us who live near these plants. We’ve had no say. We’ve just been dumped on for so long. This gives me hope for the future of my neighborhood.”

https://www.al.com/news/2022/05/epa-denies-air-pollution-permit-for-south-alabama-factory-near-africatown.html

The EPA said Alabama did not adequately respond to public comments expressing concern about the chemical production facility.

01/04/2022

“The 11th annual Ocean Awareness Contest is a platform for young people to learn about environmental issues through art-making and creative communication, explore their relationship to a changing world, and become advocates for positive change. Students ages 11-18 from around the world are invited to participate. The deadline is June 13, 2022.”

Click here to learn more: https://bowseat.org/programs/ocean-awareness-contest/contest-overview/

Photo: Yoon Jung Na, Seoul, Korea, 2021 Winner, HS Senior.

29/01/2022

Margaret Brown's Descendant documentary, which features the work of Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition - MEJAC, CHESS - Clean Healthy Educated Safe & Sustainable, Clotilda Descendants Association, Mobile County Training School - MCTS Alumni Association, Yorktown Missionary Baptist Church, and other Africatown, Prichard/Mobile, Alabama institutions, will enjoy a massive audience when it debuts globally on Netflix later this year as part of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions partnership in the fall of 2022.

https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/descendant-netflix-higher-ground-1235166645/

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to the Sundance award-winning documentary “Descendant,” by filmmaker Margaret Brown (“The Order of Myths,” “Be Here to Love Me: T…

11/01/2022

13/10/2021

"I Was Targeted Under Louisiana’s Felony Trespassing Law for Reporting on Police Working for a Pipeline Company - An investigative journalist shares her perspective after being arrested twice while reporting on resistance to the Bayou Bridge pipeline construction."

For the first time in nearly three years, I woke up a few months ago without felony charges hanging over my head.  I’m an investigative journalist and I’d been arrested twice in 2018, both times for allegedly trespassing on what’s known as “critical infrastructure,” a felony under a then-...

02/09/2021

31/08/2021

URGENT NEED: Ariel lift and a chainsaw. We have tarps, but need a lift to put them on the roof. One of our members can't leave his home because of a massive tree fallen in front of his house. Please message us if you have leads!!!! 🙏🏿

30/08/2021