#gulffuture

Sharron Stewart, in Houston, TX reflects on government repression of witnessing the disaster unfold on Gulf Beaches in Alabama 'There were so many people on the island and they would not let us get anywhere near the beaches or take pictures. Or take pictures! If you got out of your car, you were followed, if you stayed in the public right of way, you were followed. And they would have confiscated my camera if I had taken a picture. That is so different from my experience of oil spill cleanups in the past when I worked for NOAA. ' 4min http://gulffuture.org

Howard Page of STEPS Coalition tells his story of the Rev Calvin Johnson's fight to preserve his community and Mississippi wetlands "I've stepped back as far as I can, I can't step back anymore. I'm going to start coming forward." -Rev Calvin Johnson 5:33minhttp://gulffuture.org

Monique Verdin of My Louisiana Love tells of when she first saw the oil wash in from BP's disaster in the Gulf in 2010 "They were all handed these, they looked like paper towels almost, and these guys were like on the side of the boat while the captain was like running the boat through this mat of oil and they were like shlupping it up with the paper towels. We were like “OH MY GOD” I have video, it was really happening and it just blew my mind. " 5:24min http://gulffuture.org

Jennifer Bennett, an environmental engineer in Houston, TX reflects on BP's strategy to disperse the oil gushing from teh bottom of hte Mississippi Canyon in the Northern Gulf of Mexico 'The solution I saw was like “oh, we’re just gonna dump some more carcinogenic crap in there! Yeah totally standard because it’s the cheapest option, and they think that’s cleanup.” I’ve been working in the environmental industry long enough to know that is cleanup and it’s not what people think it is.' 5:12min http://gulffuture.org