Community Currency - 12/16/10

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Gulf War II: Corexit Boogaloo

Summer Burkes never considered herself an activist before Earth Day, 2010. She *still* doesn't really consider herself an activist -- just a fledgling New Orleans homeowner and Lower Ninth Ward community member who tried to help protect her new home and stanch the flow when the Powers That Be poked a hole in the Earth they still can't fix. Working closely with Matter of Trust and Burners Without Borders in the days after the Oilpocalypse began, she and her colleagues ("war buddies") encountered dramatic resistance from armed thugs working on behalf of the very people taxpayers finance to help. 

After the fourth or fifth time coming back to the Ninth Ward from the Gulf Coast with chemical poisoning so severe she couldn't open her eyes or get off the couch for days -- oh, the slimy heart-attack feeling of Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance -- she used her savings to high-tail it out of there, and is STILL couch-surfing in her old Bay Area stomping grounds, waiting for them to stop spraying Corexit (which they haven't). Once the lead A&E columnist for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and now an unpaid blogger and aspiring novelist, Summer B. makes it her mission in life to help sustain those who willingly stay behind, under the Corexit planes, in the poisoned waters the Cajuns will always call home, no matter how much the Corporatocracy carpet-bombs them with oil-industry slurry and synthetic genomics. 

In this show we look at the Gangster Party, the villains and heroes in the unfolding drama, hoping to engage more people on the side of life to rein in the corporations who profit from death and destruction. A little love and light can do wonders.