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The ocean commons belong to us all. A Blue New Deal must end attempts to industrialize the ocean through factory fish farms and large-scale aquaculture.
Green New Deal for the Gulf South (2020)
We must subsidize healthy crops and farm biodiversity instead of monocultures. Our food system must be rooted in principles of community-based agroecology and food sovereignty.
Green New Deal for the Gulf South (2020)
I work at the community level to make sure that Black folks and poor folks and Native folks are part of this climate movement.
Interview with NPR (2020)
our coastal location and low-lying land also makes the Gulf South ground zero for this nation's climate disasters.
Green New Deal for the Gulf South (2020)
We are not a people who are energized by hatred. I come from people who are energized by joy.
Interview with NPR (2020)
Creole people were free people of color, and they could own land before many Black folks could. And so my family had been there before it was America, before it was the U.S.
Interview with On Being (2022)
And that was a moment where you sort of have this — it’s surreal. You don’t — who can believe your land won’t be there anymore? Most people still can’t conceptually understand that.
Interview with On Being (2022)
Our firsthand experiences in the Gulf South-Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida-affirm the call of scientists to rapidly address climate change and make frontline communities more resilient in the process.
Green New Deal for the Gulf South (2020)
This is not about greenhouse gas reduction. This is about do we value people equally? And if we do, we’ve got some recalibrating to do, as a planet.
Interview with On Being (2022)
there are bad people in this world, but mostly, there are just people who don’t know.
Interview with On Being (2022)