Eighteen Hammers
▻https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=67753&lang=it
EIGHTEEN HAMMERS by Johnny Lee Moore with 12 Mississippi Convicts
Prison song recorded in...
Eighteen Hammers
▻https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=67753&lang=it
EIGHTEEN HAMMERS by Johnny Lee Moore with 12 Mississippi Convicts
Prison song recorded in...
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0z_cWXFCg&t=13s
Well, there’s eighteen hammers standing in a line
Well, there’s eighteen hammers standing in a line
Well, they ring like silver and they shine like gold
Well, they ring like silver and they shine like gold
There ain’t no hammer sure, that’ll ring like mine
No, there ain’t no hammer sure, that’ll ring like mine
When I ring this hammer good, gonna so loud
When I ring this hammer boy, gonna ring like mine
Well, you cut your corner boys like I cut mine
Well, you cut your corner boys like I cut mine
Well, I’ll be living when you be dying
Well, I’ll be living when you be dying
Well, I shot me a dead man, got a hundred years
Well, I shot me a dead man, got a hundred years
Well, a tree fall on me, I done been mo care
Well, a tree fall on me, I done been mo care
Well, I raised up my hammer, let it drop on down
Well, I raised up my hammer, let it drop on down
Well, look over yonder boys, all dressed in red
Well, it looks like the children that Moses led
#prison #musique #chanson #prisons #USA #Etats-Unis #Mississippi #blues #marteaux
Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?
Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.
Not long after an #Alabama lawyer named #John_Darrington began buying up land in Southeast #Texas, he sent enslaved people to work the soil. They harvested cotton and sugarcane, reaping profits for their absentee owner until he sold the place in 1848.
More than a century and a half later, men—mostly Black and brown—are still forced to work in the fields. They still harvest cotton. They still don’t get paid. And they still face punishment if they refuse to work.
They are prisoners at the #Darrington Unit, one of Texas’s 104 prisons. And not the only one in the South named after slaveholders.
While the killing of George Floyd has galvanized support for tearing down statues, renaming sports teams and otherwise removing markers of a (more) racist past, the renewed push for change hasn’t really touched the nation’s prison system. But some say it should. Across the country, dozens of prisons take their names from racists, Confederates, plantations, segregationists, and owners of slaves.
“Symbols of hate encourage hate, so it has been time to remove the celebration of figures whose fame is predicated on the pain and torture of Black people,” said DeRay McKesson, a civil rights activist and podcast host.
Some candidates for new names might be prisons on former plantations. In #Arkansas, the #Cummins Unit—now home to the state’s death chamber—was once known as the #Cummins_plantation (though it’s not clear if the namesake owned slaves). In North Carolina, Caledonia Correctional Institution is on the site of #Caledonia_Plantation, so named as a nostalgic homage to the Roman word for Scotland. Over the years, the land changed hands and eventually the state bought that and other nearby parcels.
“But the state opted to actually keep that name in what I would say is a kind of intentional choice,” said Elijah Gaddis, an assistant professor of history at Auburn University. “It’s so damning.”
Among several state prison systems contacted by The Marshall Project, only North Carolina’s said it’s in the early stages of historical research to see what name changes might be appropriate. Spokesman John Bull said the department is “sensitive to the cultural legacy issues sweeping the country,” but its priority now is responding to the COVID pandemic.
Two of the most infamous and brutal plantations-turned-prisons are #Angola in #Louisiana and #Parchman in #Mississippi—but those are their colloquial names; neither prison formally bears the name of the plantation that preceded it. Officially, they’re called Louisiana State Penitentiary and the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
In some parts of the South, many prisons are former plantations. Unlike Darrington or Cummins, the vast majority at least bothered to change the name—but that isn’t always much of an improvement.
In Texas, for example, most of the state’s lock-ups are named after ex-prison officials and erstwhile state politicians, a group that predictably includes problematic figures. Arguably one of the worst is Thomas J. Goree, the former slave owner and Confederate captain who became one of the first superintendents of the state’s penitentiaries in the 1870s, when prison meant torture in stocks and dark cells.
“Goree was a central figure in the convict leasing system that killed thousands of people and he presided over the formal segregation of the prison system,” said Robert Perkinson, a University of Hawaii associate professor who studies crime and punishment. “Even though he thought of himself as a kind of benevolent master, he doesn’t age well at all.”
In his book “Texas Tough,” Perkinson describes some of the horrors of the convict leasing practices of Goree’s era. Because the plantation owners and corporations that rented prisoners did not own them, they had no incentive to keep them alive. If you killed an enslaved person, it was a financial loss; if you killed a leased convict, the state would just replace him. For decades, Texas prison laborers were routinely whipped and beaten, and the leasing system in Goree’s day sparked several scandals, including one involving torture so terrible it was known as the “Mineola Horror.” Goree defended the system: “There are, of course, many men in the penitentiary who will not be managed by kindness.” Plus, he explained, prisoners in the South needed to be treated differently because they were different from those in the north: “There, the majority of men are white.”
The present-day Goree Unit is in Huntsville, an hour’s drive north of Houston, but his family’s former plantation in Lovelady—about 20 miles further north—has been turned into another prison: The Eastham Unit, named for the later landowners who used it for convict leasing.
James E. #Ferguson—namesake of the notoriously violent Ferguson Unit, also near Huntsville—was a governor in the 1910s who was also an anti-Semite and at one point told the Texas Rangers he would use his pardoning power if any of them were ever charged with murder for their bloody campaigns against Mexicans, according to Monica Muñoz Martinez, historian and author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You.”
Ferguson got forced out of office early when he was indicted and then impeached. Afterward, he was replaced by William P. Hobby, a staunch segregationist who opposed labor rights and once defended the beating of an NAACP official visiting the state to discuss anti-lynching legislation.
#Hobby, too, has a prison named after him.
“In public he tried to condemn lynchings, but then when you look at his role in suppressing anti-lynching organizing he was trying to suppress those efforts,” Martinez said of Hobby. “It’s horrific to name a prison after a person like him. It’s an act of intimidation and it’s a reminder that the state is proud of that racist tradition.”
Northwest of Abilene, the Daniel Unit takes its name from #Price_Daniel, a mid-20th-century governor who opposed integration, like most Texas politicians of the era. As attorney general he fought desegregating the University of Texas Law School, and later he signed the Southern Manifesto condemning the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
The namesakes of the #Billy_Moore Unit and the frequently-sued Wallace Pack Unit were a pair of prison officials—a major and a warden—who died in 1981 while trying to murder a Black prisoner. According to Michael Berryhill, a Texas Southern University journalism professor who wrote a book on the case, it was such a clear case of self-defense that three Texas juries decided to let the prisoner off.
“They should not have prisons named after them,” Berryhill said. He called it “a stain” on the Texas prison system’s reputation.
In Alabama, the #Draper Correctional Center is named after #Hamp_Draper, a state prison director who also served as an interim leader—or “imperial representative”—in the #Ku_Klux_Klan, as former University of Alabama professor Glenn Feldman noted in his 1999 book on the state’s Klan history. The prison closed for a time in 2018 then re-opened earlier this year as a quarantine site for new intakes.
In New York City, the scandal-prone #Rikers Island jail is one of a few that’s actually generated calls for a name change, based on the namesake family’s ties to slavery. One member of the Dutch immigrant clan, #Richard_Riker, served as a criminal court judge in the early 1800s and was known as part of the “#Kidnapping_Club” because he so often abused the Fugitive Slave Act to send free Blacks into slavery.
To be sure, most prisons are not named for plantations, slave owners or other sundry racists and bigots—at least not directly. Most states name their prisons geographically, using cardinal directions or nearby cities.
But some of those geographic names can be problematic. In Florida, Jackson Correctional Institution shares a name with its home county. But Jackson County is named after the nation’s seventh president, #Andrew_Jackson, who was a slave owner obsessed with removing Native people to make room for more plantations. Less than an hour to the south, #Calhoun Correctional Institution also bears the name of its county, which is in turn named after John C. Calhoun—Jackson’s rabidly pro-slavery vice president. The same is true of Georgia’s Calhoun State Prison.
Also in #Georgia, Lee State Prison is in Lee County, which is named in honor of #Henry_Lee_III, the patriarch of a slave-owning family and the father of Robert E. Lee. A little further northeast, Lee County in South Carolina—home to violence-plagued Lee Correctional Institution—is named after the Confederate general himself.
In #Arkansas, the namesake of #Forrest City—home to two eponymous federal prisons—is #Nathan_Bedford_Forrest, a Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan who also controlled leased convicts in the entire state of Mississippi at one point.
To many experts, the idea of changing prison names feels a bit like putting lipstick on a pig: No matter what you call it, a prison is still a prison. It still holds people who are not free. They are still disproportionately Black and brown.
“If you are talking about the inhumanity, the daily violence these prisons perform, then who these prisons are named after is useful in understanding that,” Martinez said. “But what would it do to name it after somebody inspiring? It’s still a symbol of oppression.”
But to Anthony Graves, a Texas man who spent 12 years on death row after he was wrongfully convicted of capital murder, the racist names are a “slap in the face of the justice system itself.” New names could be a powerful signal of new priorities.
“At the end of the day the mentality in these prisons is still, ‘This is my plantation and you are my slaves,’” he said. “To change that we have to start somewhere and maybe if we change the name we can start to change the culture.”
▻https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/29/will-the-reckoning-over-racist-names-include-these-prisons
#prisons #USA #Etats-Unis #toponymie #toponymie_politique #esclavage #Thomas_Goree #Goree #James_Ferguson #William_Hobby #John_Calhoun
Black members of Mississippi’s senate walk out of the chamber before the final vote on a bill to ban teaching critical race theory in schools and universities. The vote passed.
▻https://twitter.com/kobeevance/status/1484577972841500680
#USA #Mississippi #Etats-Unis #censure #école #critical_race_theorie #éducation #racisme #université #enseignement #sénat
l’histgeobox : Les bayous de la Louisiane, conservatoire de la musique cajun et zydeco.
▻https://lhistgeobox.blogspot.com/2020/03/les-bayous-de-la-louisiane.html
Le pays des bayous est un monde amphibie, une vaste zone où s’entremêlent les bras morts du Mississippi. La végétation étrange se compose de cyprès, de palétuviers recouverts de rideaux de mousse espagnole. En langue amérindienne, "bayou" signifie serpent, sinuosité. C’est bien ce que semblent dessiner les méandres des bras de rivières glissant lentement vers la mer.
Les bayous constituent un réservoir de biodiversité d’une grande richesse ; un véritable paradis pour les oiseaux, les poissons, les tortues, les alligators ou les écrevisses ; un garde manger indispensable à la survie des habitants des marais.
Avant même que la Louisiane ne devienne américaine, en 1803, ces terres inhospitalières servirent d’ultime refuge à des peuples dont personne ne voulait. Dans son ouvrage In the Creole Twilight, l’écrivain Josh Caffery décrit cet espace comme une "sorte de zone frontière entre les USA et la Caraïbe, entre le « Deep South » et le « Wild West », entre les langues française et anglaise, entre la terre et l’eau..." Rejetés dans ces terres hostiles, les Hommes s’unirent pour survivre. Les souffrances communes permirent, sinon de se comprendre, tout au moins d’échanger et se mélanger.
Chansons d’eau douce par #Simon_Rico sur
Ressource indispensable, lien entre les hommes : c’est au bord des rivières et des fleuves que la vie s’épanouit. Chichas hallucinées de la forêt amazonienne et carimbos de #Belem, guitares phins et khêns en bambou des rives du Mékong, déchirements électriques le long du Mississippi, #afrobeats, grooves mandingues et touaregs sur le Niger, nays et simsimiyyas envoûtants du Nil... Une navigation sonore en pirogue, ferry, pinasse, jonque, sternwheeler ou dahabieh à la découverte des plus beaux chants des grands fleuves.
Écouté les 4 premières, beaucoup de découvertes et pas grande chose à jeter... Et il y a une playlist Youtube des titres pour chaque fleuve.
Épisode 1 : #Amazone, un géant dans la selva
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-serie-musicale-dete/chansons-deau-douce-15-amazone-un-geant-de-la-selva
Épisode 2 : #Mississippi, le « vieux père » de l’
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-serie-musicale-dete/chansons-deau-douce-25-mississippi-le-vieux-pere-de-lamerique
Épisode 3 : #Niger : le « Grand fleuve » du
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-serie-musicale-dete/chansons-deau-douce-35-niger-le-grand-fleuve-du-sahel
Épisode 4 : #Nil : le « fleuve sacré » d’ de l’Est
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-serie-musicale-dete/nil-le-fleuve-sacre-dafrique-de-lest
Épisode 5 : #Mékong : le « fleuve turbulent » qui nourrit l’ du Sud-Est
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-serie-musicale-dete/chansons-deau-douce-55-mekong-le-fleuve-turbulent-qui-nourrit-lasie-du
’Living in America’s #cancer_alley is like death row’ - BBC News
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/av/newsbeat-54773957
’Living in America’s cancer alley is like death row’
’Living in America’s cancer alley is like death row’
“We are only fighting for fresh air,” Shamara Lavigne tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
The area around St. James in Louisiana, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, has the undesirable nickname “cancer alley”.
There are around 150 chemical plants located along this stretch of the Mississippi River. Data from the US Environmental Protection Agency suggests that those living in this area of Louisiana have the highest risk of getting cancer than anywhere in America.
Now residents of the small, predominantly black, community known as the fifth district are campaigning to stop another large plant being built near their homes.
But many feel let down by politicians. “I want them to stop saying yes to industry,” Sharon Lavigne tells Newsbeat, “if they can help us with that, they got my vote.”
The plants provide a large number of jobs in the state, and the petrochemical companies disagree with the government report saying it’s based on faulty science.
How Is a Disaster Made? | Lapham’s Quarterly
▻https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-disaster-made
n September 29, 1915, at the muddy end of the Mississippi’s farthest reach into the Gulf of Mexico, one hundred miles downriver from New Orleans, an unnamed hurricane made landfall. An anemometer recorded wind gusts of 140 miles per hour there, at the town of Burrwood, Louisiana, where on easier days several hundred members of the Army Corps of Engineers lived in orderly cottages and worked to keep the shipping canal at the river’s mouth clear of sediment. As the storm moved upriver, the aneroid barometer at Tulane University plummeted to 28.10 inches. The rain gauge filled with 8.36 inches of precipitation in twenty-one hours. Even in a region accustomed to hurricanes, these were extraordinary measurements. Isaac Cline, the chief meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau in New Orleans, reported that the storm was “the most intense hurricane of which we have record in the history of the Mexican Gulf coast, and probably in the United States.”
L’assassinio di Emmett Till
Wikiradio del 28/08/2017 - Rai Radio 3 - RaiPlay Radio
▻https://www.raiplayradio.it/audio/2017/08/Lassassinio-di-Emmett-Till---Wikiradio-del-28082017-6f284bed-32cb-4d77-
Il 28 agosto 1955 all’età di 14 anni #EmmettTill viene assassinato per motivi razziali nella cittadina di #Money, nel #Mississippi con Sara Antonelli.
Repertorio
– Estratti da documentario The Murder Of Emmett Till scritto da Emmy Award la versione originale è apparsa su Discovery Networks. Con la testimonianza della madre di Emmett, “Mamie Till”.
Brani musicali
– Freedom Highway, Nina Simon dallalbum «Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood»
– Come Sunday, Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
– Death Of Emmett Till, Bob Dylan
– River Blues, Mattie Delaney-Tallahatchie)
#podcast #wikiradio #RaiRadio3 #usa #us #racisme #violence #blackcommunity #KKK #homicide #photographie #violence #communitenoire#
Le ruissellement des engrais crée la plus grande zone morte jamais observée aux États-Unis
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/sciences/2019/06/le-ruissellement-des-engrais-cree-la-plus-grande-zone-morte-jamai
Au large des côtes de la #Louisiane et du #Texas, à l’endroit même où le #Mississippi finit sa course à travers les États-Unis, l’#océan meurt à petit feu. Ce phénomène cyclique est connu sous le nom de #zone_morte et il se produit tous les ans mais selon les scientifiques, la zone atteindra cette année sa superficie maximale depuis le début des relevés.
#vous_aimerez_aussi
Je ne l’invente même pas, c’est marqué sous l’article, avec des tas d’autres liens déprimants sur l’environnement.
Un peu au-dessus de cette zone du Mississipi c’est Cancer alley …
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Straight To The Heart - Pierced Arrows
▻https://piercedarrows.bandcamp.com
#rock'n'roll #punk #bandcamp #mississippi_rds
Shake it, baby
▻https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/track/shake-it-baby
Jessie Mae played guitar and drums, wrote and sang her own songs in the northern Mississippi hill country blues traditions. She was considered the Queen of the Guitar Boogie. As one of the earliest successful female blues musicians, Hemphill has been an influential and pioneering artist.
▻https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com
Ces enregistrements datent probablement du début des années 1980
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Mae_Hemphill
▻https://www.discogs.com/Jessie-Mae-Hemphill-Get-Right-Blues/release/9198461
Jessie Mae Hemphill - Baby, Please Don’t Go (1985)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NJqKmEgKtE
Je ne connaissais pas du tout Jessie Mae Hemphill, ni même aucun artiste du catalogue mississippi rds mais la collection Alan Lomax
►https://alanlomaxcollection.bandcamp.com
sur la fiche wikipedia de Jessie Mae, je trouve ce lien :
▻https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/ArticleArchives?tag=Jessie%20Mae%20Hemphill
▻https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/track/lord-help-the-poor-and-needy
« L’argent de cette chanson devrait aller à la succession de Jessie et être réparti entre ses proches, qui, comme Jessie, sont des personnes noires pauvres et âgées, dont beaucoup vivent de l’aide sociale », dit Mathus. « Ce n’est pas nouveau. C’est malheureux que la plupart des initiateurs du blues soient morts dans la pauvreté à cause de situations similaires. »
Olga Wilhelmine Mathus, musicienne de blues basée à San Francisco et fondatrice de la Jessie Mae Hemphill Foundation -
“Lord, help the poor & needy” sur Jukebox de Cat Power
▻https://www.discogs.com/release/10713383
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThO8cIvGr4o
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaevRGENk3g
Sur son disque Jukebox, Cat Power cite Lord, Help The Poor And Needy comme un titre « traditionnel », alors qu’il a été écrit par Jessie Mae Hemphill...
▻https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/matador-records-skips-important-credit-on-cat-powers-jukebox/Content?oid=2167090
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XQ_vp5yIGU
Jessie Mae Hemphill- She Wolf
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC6gzxn5fhs&feature=youtu.be
Compilation of great recordings by Jesse Mae Hemphill. Mississippi Hill Country blues at there finest. Jessie Mae rocks out on the electric guitar with minimal percussion. By far some of the best blues recorded in the 80’s. Jessie Mae is the granddaughter of the great Sid Hemphill and the torch bearer of one of the most beautiful traditions in the world of music.
Vous trouverez dans cette section les imports et les rééditions. Ces disques sont pour la plupart commandés auprès de Mississippi Records à Portland et Chicago.
▻http://moncul.org/distro_mon_cul/distro-mississippi-records-sahel-sounds-water-wing-etc
ou loup-garou ? @sinehebdo d’ailleurs c’est quoi le féminin de loup-garou ? louve-garou ? gare à la louve ?
ALEC SOTH’S ICONIC ‘SLEEPING BY THE MISSISSIPPI’ 13 YEARS LATER
▻https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/01/alec-soths-iconic-sleeping-by-the-mississippi-13-years-later
10 Years After Katrina - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/26/us/ten-years-after-katrina.html
NEW ORLEANS — It is a wonder that any of it is here at all: The scattered faithful gathering into Beulah Land Baptist Church on a Sunday morning in the Lower Ninth Ward. The men on stoops in Mid-City swapping gossip in the August dusk. The brass band in Tremé, the lawyers in Lakeview, the new homeowners in Pontchartrain Park.
On Aug. 29, 2005, it all seemed lost. Four-fifths of the city lay submerged as residents frantically signaled for help from their rooftops and thousands were stranded at the Superdome, a congregation of the desperate and poor. From the moment the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina dismantled a fatally defective levee system, New Orleans became a global symbol of American dysfunction and government negligence. At every level and in every duty, from engineering to social policy to basic logistics, there were revelations of malfunction and failure before, during, and after #Katrina.
Alec Soth on Sleeping by the Mississippi – British Journal of Photography
▻http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/09/alec-soth-on-sleeping-by-the-mississippi
The Long Way Home : une catastrophe qui se prolonge à La Nouvelle-Orléans, trois ans après le passage de l’ouragan Katrina | Cairn.info
▻http://www.cairn.info/revue-espace-geographique-2009-2-page-124.htm
Le passage de l’ouragan Katrina à La Nouvelle-Orléans le 29 août 2005 a entraîné la rupture des digues protégeant la ville et, dans les heures et les jours qui ont suivi, causé la mort de plusieurs centaines de personnes [1]
[1] Les pertes liées à l’ouragan Katrina sont estimées...
et l’inondation pendant plusieurs semaines d’environ 80 % de l’espace urbain (encadré, fig. 1). Mais à l’ère des grandes catastrophes médiatisées, le choc causé par l’ouragan Katrina aux États-Unis repose sur son incongruité géographique : ces images de familles réfugiées sur leur toit, appelant à l’aide des autorités dépassées par le chaos urbain ont été rapportées du cœur même d’une ville américaine d’un demi- million d’habitants avant le passage de l’ouragan. En un sens, cette aberration a gouverné les perspectives de la littérature produite sur la catastrophe autour de la question : « comment a-t-on pu en arriver là ? ». Cette généalogie du désastre a suivi jusqu’à présent deux pistes principales. D’une part, une recherche des responsabilités politiques et administratives (Brinkley, 2006 ; van Heerden, 2006) et, d’autre part, une analyse des vulnérabilités propres à La Nouvelle-Orléans et à sa population (Dyson, 2006 ; Zaninetti, 2007).
Louisiana Faces Faster Levels of Sea-Level Rise Than Any Other Land on Earth
▻http://www.ecowatch.com/louisiana-sea-level-rise-2178631264.html
Louisiana—which faces faster levels of sea-level rise than any other land on Earth—could lose as many as 2,800 square miles of its coast over the next 40 years and about 27,000 buildings will need to be flood-proofed, elevated or bought out, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
#Louisiane #montée_des_eaux #climat #réfugié·es_climatiques #cartographie
The $100 Billion Nightmare For Offshore Oil: Louisiana’s Sinking Coast - gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/the-100-billion-nightmare-for-offshore-oil-louisianas-sinking-coast
The canals tell a story about the industry’s ubiquity in Louisiana history, but they also signal a grave future: $100 billion of energy infrastructure threatened by rising sea levels and erosion. As the coastline recedes, tangles of pipeline are exposed to corrosive seawater; refineries, tank farms and ports are at risk.
“All of the pipelines, all of the things put in place in the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s were designed to be protected by marsh,” said Ted Falgout, an energy consultant and former director of Port Fourchon.
Louisiana has an ambitious — and expensive — plan to protect both its backbone industry and its citizens from this threat but, with a $2 billion deficit looming next year, the cash-poor state can only do so much to shore up its sinking coasts. That means the oil and gas industry is facing new pressures to bankroll critical environmental projects — whether by choice or by force.
“The industry down there has relied on the natural environment to protect its infrastructure, and that environment is now unraveling,” said Kai Midboe, the director of policy research at the Water Institute of the Gulf. “They need to step up.”
Every year in Louisiana, more than 20 square miles of land is swallowed by the Gulf. At Port Fourchon, which services 90 percent of deepwater oil production, the shoreline recedes by three feet every month. Statewide, more than 610 miles of pipeline could be exposed over the next 25 years, according to one study by Louisiana State University and the Rand Corporation. Private industry owns more than 80 percent of Louisiana’s coast.
Louisiana Coastal Wetlands: A Resource At Risk - USGS Fact Sheet
▻http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/la-wetlands/index.html
Louisiana Coastal Wetlands: A Resource At Risk
USGS Fact Sheet
Fragile wetlands are readily damaged, directly and indirectly, by canals dredged for navigation and energy exploration.Louisiana’s 3 million acres of wetlands are lost at the rate about 75 square kilometers annually, but reducing these losses is proving to be difficult and costly.
Mississippi : les méandres de la haine |ICI Radio-Canada.ca
▻http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/special/2016/1/serie-mississippi/index5.html
Quelle extraordinaire série de petits reportages sur l’histoire du racisme dans le sud des Etats-Unis. Voir en particulier Tupelo, témoignage brutal de la résurgence du mouvement suprémaciste, mais tous les reportages sont vraiment très bien.
Une série de Christian Latreille, Marcel Calfat et Sylvain Richard
Radio-Canada a suivi les traces du racisme le long du Mississippi. Un périple qui nous a conduit de la ville morte de Cairo jusqu’à Tupelo, au coeur d’une Amérique encore profondément raciste. Revoyez les reportages de la série.
L’évolution du cours du Mississippi au fil des siècles - La boite verte
►http://www.laboiteverte.fr/evolution-cours-mississippi
Ces représentations des différents cours que le Mississippi a suivi depuis des siècles ont étés créés suite à une étude géologique du corps des ingénieurs de l’armée américaine en 1944.
Chaque couleur représente le trajet que le fleuve empruntait à une époque différente.
Ça me fait penser à cette image des milliers de rivières qui composent le Mississipi
Elle est construite avec le logiciel « Stream Trace Summary Report »
▻http://nationalmap.gov/streamer/webApp/welcome.html
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c’est peut-être pour ça qu’il y a autant de s dans Mississippi :-)
SoLa : Louisiana Water Stories sur Vimeo
▻https://vimeo.com/album/2839069
SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories
Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana there’s water - rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $63 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $200 million a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports.
PART 1: A giant wake-up call
PART 2: The end of fishing in the gulf
PART 3: Government plays an important role
PART 4: Man vs. nature in the wetlands
PART 5: Shell-shocked in Lafitte
They are also home to some insidious polluters: The same oil and gas industry, 200 petrochemical plants along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known “Cancer Alley,” the world’s largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year. At the same time SoLa is home to one of America’s most vital and unique cultures; if everyone who lives there has a water story they can also most likely play the fiddle, waltz, cook an etouffe and hunt and fish.
Voir aussi :
▻http://www.jonbowermaster.com/videoplayer/videoplayer.php?videoid=1033
Dr. Ivor van Heerden - The inside story from one Louisiana scientist - YouTube
où Ivor van Heerden explique tout katrina dans le détail en 71 minutes. Je viens de finir le visionnage (bout par bout). C’est époustrouflant.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DJV-giy7Q
▻https://www.businessreport.com/article/moving-on-ivor- traduire avec Google
NOVA | The Man Who Predicted Katrina
▻http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/predicting-katrina.html
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“A slow-moving Category 3 hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist.”
—Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004
For years, Ivor van Heerden, a hurricane expert at Louisiana State University, saw a tragedy coming. Since 2001, he and colleagues had been generating computer models of how a major storm could inundate New Orleans. He and his team sought tenaciously—at times desperately—to have their warnings heeded by government officials. In these interviews, conducted both 10 months before and then soon after Katrina hit, van Heerden expresses some of his worst fears, frustrations, and regrets.
Hurricane Katrina migration : Where did people go ? Where are they coming from now ? | NOLA.com
▻http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/08/hurricane_katrina_migration_di.html
Voici une question qu’on a souvent évoqué sans avoir les chiffres. Les chiffres sont maintenant consolidés et les cartes établies, pour donner une image d’une décade d’exode.
In the decade since the levees broke, the story of the Katrina diaspora has evolved into a tale of post-Katrina transplants.
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune has created a New Orleans migration map using Internal Revenue Service records to show where families relocated after the storm — and where new arrivals are coming from in recent years.
Living Katrina: 10 Years Later | Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
▻http://dartcenter.org/content/living-katrina-10-years-later
On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we asked seven journalists, a news executive and a clinician from the Gulf Coast to reflect on their experiences and what they’ve learned in the decade since. Scroll down for excerpts, and click to the right for full pieces from Eve Troeh, Clarence Williams, Stan Tiner, Debbie Fleming Caffery, John Pope, Joy Osofsky, June Cross, Russell Lewis and Mark Schleifstein.
Read the minute-by-minute blogging of The Times-Picayune reporters on Aug. 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina updates on NOLA.com: Aug. 29, 2005 | NOLA.com
▻http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2005/08/online_times-picayune_news_blo.html#incart_big-photo
Hurricane Katrina updates on NOLA.com: Aug. 29, 2005