The Gulf oil spill: Part 5—Residents respond to the disaster

This video, the last in a WSWS series, features interviews with residents and visitors of the Gulf of Mexico. Leanne Odonnel of Moorseville, North Carolina, expresses her shock at finding a beach covered in tarballs. Patricia Landry and Pamela Odom, who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina, share their grief at having to relocate if a hurricane brings oil inland.

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News & Politics

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• BP
• Gulf
• oil
• spill
• video
• tarballs
• hurricane
• beach

[capemom2]

Use common sense and believe what you see with your own two eyes. Would you sit on the beach while toxic tarballs wash ashore? Not cancel that Florida vacation because you may lose a deposit? Allow your children to swim in toxic waters because they are hot? Millions of gallons of highly toxic dispersants have been sprayed into the air and water. These break down and sink the oil out of sight, but it is still there and still spreading via currents. Coastal life ain't what it used to be.

[hauleywood]

@COAKD1

Barry won't let you ;)

[COAKD1]

I wonder if we all can work together in finding a solution for all of this.

[ShaolinRambo]

@mrdalewilsondw i agree even though im not native indian..but im east indian:)

[IndyDoug]

Collapsen of the republic is happening in slow motion.

[dave777blaster]

The oil will flow 10 - 13 years

they can't stop it

Those people not leaving the area are soaking up toxins daily.

[mrdalewilsondw]

wow, just think what the world would have been like if we the Indians would have won the war ???

We would have flowing rivers and clean water.

living off the land and enjoying fresh air.