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Washington: 'People tried to work together during those times'


ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photo
Rev. Anthony Washington, right, holds a sign bearing the name of George Floyd, the Black man who died under the knee of a police officer last week in Minnesota. 
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By James Beaty Managing Editor
May 22, 2021
ADRIAN O HANLON III | Staff photo
Rev. Anthony Washington, right, holds a sign bearing the name of George Floyd, the Black man who died under the knee of a police officer last week in Minnesota. 
Rev. Anthony Washington didn t know what kind of response he d get when he called for a public demonstration last year.
Washington, who is pastor of Mount Triumph Baptist Church in McAlester, felt compelled to call for a demonstration following the death 10 days earlier of George Floyd beneath the knee of a police officer on a street in Minneapolis. ....

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The Louisiana Chemical Plants Thriving Off of Slavery


‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’
Anya Groner
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Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s largest plastic plants. Already the air Lavigne breathed in her native St. James Parish was some of the most toxic in the United States. Now Formosa planned to spend $9.4 billion on facilities that would make polymer and ethylene glycol, polyethylene, and polypropylene ingredients found in antifreeze, drainage pipes, and a variety of single-use plastics just two miles down the road from her family home. The concentration of carcinogens in the atmosphere could triple. ....

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Louisiana Chemical Plants Are Thriving Off of Slavery


The Atlantic
‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’
Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
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Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s largest plastic plants. Already the air Lavigne breathed in her native St. James Parish was some of the most toxic in the United States. Now Formosa planned to spend $9.4 billion on facilities that would make polymer and ethylene glycol, polyethylene, and polypropylene ingredients found in antifreeze, drainage pipes, and a variety of single-use plastics just two miles down the road from her family home. The concentration of carcinogens in the atmosphere could triple. ....

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