August 29,2010 in New Orleans, LA
10:00am March Begins at  Jourdan Road and North Galvez
12:45pm-6:00pm Rally  at Hunter’s Field (North Claiborne Avenue and St. Bernard Avenue)
Get more information about Hip Hop Caucus and the Katrina Commemoration Foundation’s 5th Anniversary March and Rally in New Orleans HERE.

So technically the oil has stopped leaking but that doesn’t mean we need to forget! Click on the link below to Check out this timeline and photo gallery of the BP oil spill. Also shout out to Lindsey from CaptainsofIndustry.com for the link!
BP In Deep Water: A Birds-Eye View Of The Oil Spill | SoulCulture.

Recently, critically acclaimed and award winning director Spike Lee sat down with GQ magazine to dish out his thoughts on the BP Oil Spill, Earthquake in Haiti and how Obama was bamboozled by big oil.

here’s one of our favorite quotes thus far:

What should Obama have done differently about
the spill?
Before this catastrophe, our president was in

Do you live in a community or work for an organization that was directly impacted by the BP oil spill? If so then this is the grant for you! The EPA Announced yesterday that they are offering $200,000 in Environmental Justice Grants to Support Communities Directly Affected by BP Oil Spill.
Read more to find out the details:

Where are these gallons of nasty trash bags going? According to research from Dr. Robert Bullard also known as the Father of the United States  Environmental Justice Movement that waste is from the BP gulf coast oil spill and is going directly on top of communities of color.
Check what he’s saying:
More than half (five out of nine) of the landfills receiving BP oil-spill solid waste are located in communities where people of color comprise a majority of residents living within near the waste facilities.
In addition, a significantly large share of …

The NAACP just got back from visiting the gulf coast and the news is no bueno for Black and Asian workers in the Gulf Coast. Find out what’s going on by reading this article from the root.com written by Environmental Reporter, Brentin Mock 
Minorities See Little Benefit From BP Oil Spill Jobs.

Ain’t this some Bullmess! After all the lost lives, Dead and destroyed animals and water life they still want to drill oil. Shame on the New Orleans judge that lifted the ban and shame on the readers at mediatakeout.com for this story only recieving 1,732 views in comparison to a picture of Mary J. Blige with a bikini wedgie getting a whopping 142,647 hits in only a few hours.
SMH really people, do ya’ll want the world to end or what? Check the link below for the full story.
Deepwater Drilling Ban …

The BP oil spill has been an eye-opener for many on the destructive forces of dirty oil. However, for residents of the gulf coast that story is old news. Check the video from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines discussing the history of Dirty Oil and Industry in the Gulf Coast.

Our good folk at Oakland Local passed along this story. Apparently BP just launched a social media PR campaign to take some of the heat off of themselves for the oil spill. The only problem is that BP is getting a little too excited about photo-shop. Check the story by clicking on the link below to see the 1000 words BP tried to edit out of it’s oil spill footage.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: What are the pictures BP America doesn’t want you to see? | Oakland Local.

Michele Roberts of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights will be live on Talking Feather Radio today at 4pm est/1pm pst discussing the Gulf Coast Oil Spill and the call to action the organization released just yesterday.
This is an interview you do not want to miss. AEHR plans  to “blow the lid off the smoke and mirrors game that has finally caught up with the CORPORATE FOSSIL FUEL JUNKIES.”
Tune back to Checktheweather.net  at 4pm est/ 1pm pst. to hear AEHR’s  live interview on Talking Feather Radio.

For more information on Talking …