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Friday, 14 September 2018 23:07

'Major Victory': Landowner's Legal Challenge Halts Construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana

Faced with a new state law that effectively criminalized peaceful protests of pipelines, activists have put their bodies and freedom on the line to oppose the Bayou Bridge project in Louisiana.

While celebrating the win, activists noted that "construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues in other parts of the Atchafalaya Basin" and vowed to keep fighting to completely shut down the project

Published in Zero Climate Emissions
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Sunday, 29 November 2015 00:00

Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards’ Medicaid expansion timeline hits bump in road; here's what's next

Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards’ Medicaid expansion timeline hits bump in road; here's what's next

On the campaign trial, Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards promised time and again that he would expand the rolls of Medicaid on his first day in office. His promise to reverse repeated rejections of expanded Medicaid by Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal and open the government health insurance program to more low-income workers was a cornerstone of the Democrat’s campaign. But legal realities have caused Edwards to back off, at least for the time being, while his incoming administration works through a legal glitch raised by the Legislature’s fiscal advisers.

Published in Expand Medicaid NOW!
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Saturday, 25 April 2015 00:00

In Name of Climate Justice, Louisiana Tribe Rises Up for Rights and Recognition

Miles of oil pipelines run through the Houma's land, contributing to coastal erosion. The tribe is petitioning for federal recognition to better protect those lands and their unique way of life in southern Louisiana.

United Houma Nation renews fight for federal recognition in the face of sinking lands and environmental disasters

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Saturday, 28 March 2015 00:00

Closure of BR emergency room should serve as warning to all states that rejected Medicaid expansion, Bloomberg reports

State Sen. Sharon Weston-Broome speaks Wednesday, Feb 11, 2015, about the impending closure of the Baton Rouge General Mid City emergency room.

In a new feature, Bloomberg zeros in on the impending closure of Baton Rouge General Medical Center’s Mid City emergency room, calling it “a real-world ripple effect of the ideological clash over President Barack Obama’s health-care law.”

Published in Expand Medicaid NOW!
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Friday, 31 October 2014 00:00

Young people's voice needed in building an infrastructure of opportunity

Young voting activists gather on a Mississippi college campus in 2008. Four years later, Mississippi had the second-highest turnout rate among young voters after the District of Columbia.

This week the Durham, North Carolina-based nonprofit MDC released its latest State of the South report highlighting how the American dream of intergenerational upward mobility is more elusive for young people born at the bottom of the income ladder in the South than anywhere else in the country.

Published in Living Wage Jobs for All
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