Here is the true ongoing lingering affects of the BP Oil Spill
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Here is the true ongoing lingering affects of the BP Oil Spill :
The Hunger War 30 months after The BP Oil Disaster in South Alabama
by Michele on October 22, 2012
While some may find some of the observations made below controversial; I believe it illustrates the truth about our area and the needs currently facing it . With That being said here is the sad reality as I and the writer along with many others see it post BP oil disaster!
I don’t blog much, because I’m not an eloquent writer. This note will contain facts, and objective observations. I just returned from my third trip down to the Fishing Community of The Coden and Bayou LaBatre area of South Mobile Co in the past 6 months. I have tried really hard as an accidental activist to support areas of Coastal Al. that have little, to no voice, and very few financial resources to get basic needs met, like Food!! People can no longer make a sustainable living like before April 20th 2010.
I’ll start with a report I recieved last week from Gulf Shores Al. after tourist season is over. Every year there are lay offs within the Service Industry. Unfortunatly in September The Food Pantry, through Christian Services in Gulf Shores turned away appox 200 hundred people due to lack of food supplies. From personal obsevation here I have seen major Rock Concerts, and Festivals giving very wealthy business owners a very nice profit. The problem is it didn’t ” Trickle Down” to those workers who made those activities possible. It produces prosperity to the top 2% of Business Owners. There are plausable community based solutions that benifit the entire Island. Churches have a fee they must pay depending on the amount of people they feed to the Bay Area Food Bank to receive food supplies. We can, and will do better at supplying food to the Hungry in our Commuinity. I ask both Mayors Of Gulf Shores, and Orange Beach Al., and Members of GUMBO to sit down for 30 min with the Directors Of Alabama Coast United and there will be no hunger on Pleasure Island.
The Food and Hunger issue In South Mobile County is a critical problem. Most Fisher persons always reserve some of their catch to feed themselves, and their community. This has been turned upside down by The BP Oil Disaster. The Catch Numbers are down. Our Fisherman can’t continue to provide a living. Oyster Beds on the Al. Coast opened and Guess what? No Oysters to harvest. Crab catches very low. Our Fishermen and Women are being forced further away to south Texas, and Florida waters to get a clean, decent catch. They can’t afford the Gas in their boats to get out there. BP needs to be providing something, and no money except the 5,000 or 25,000 they got in 2010 is ” Trickling Down”. I was able to talk with Henry Barnes the Caniadate who is in the Run off Tuesday with Stan Wright. He cared enough to come out to the Event today. He was shocked that I came from Baldwin Co to help. The perception of Baldwin Co. is we get all the money for everything, yet the people of Coden know I mean to give them everything I can. We can together!! The Coastal Response Pantry needs help. Please Donate.
Side Note . On the way home to S. Foley. Bob and I stopped at the Cains Grocery in Loxley Al. Leaving the store, There was a women not much younger than myself Dumpster Diving for food. I had my Camera out, and then her eye’s met mine. I didn’t take the shot, I didn’t have anything to give her, and I will not exploit what is probably left of her dignity. We have a basic need for food.
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