The names of the dead were lost beneath a sugarcane field in St. James Parish. For decades, families whispered that their ancestors were buried there. This includes enslaved men, women, and children whose remains lay unmarked because white landowners denied them proper burial. When heavy machinery arrived, those whispers turned into a crisis. The land, […]
Community Members Brace for More Betrayal in a New Era of Environmental Justice At the Wednesday, April 2nd meeting of the St. James Parish Council, I was shocked and personally disappointed to see that our councilmember for the 5th District of St. James, AJ Jasmin, introduced a resolution that called for the Parish Council “to […]
New Orleans is already living through New Orleans climate crisis change. While other cities plan for a future of rising seas and intensifying storms, we’ve been navigating that reality for decades. The storms come faster. The heat lingers longer. And the systems that are supposed to protect us? Cracking at the seams. This isn’t just […]
After decades of inaction on - and in fact encouragement of - petrochemical development, the St. James Parish Council has now voted to further study the environmental and economic impacts of proposed solar farms in the parish, in spite of the fact that they're generally considered safer and produce cleaner energy than fossil fuels.
Resilient, /r??zily?nt/, adjective 1. (of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. The word resilient is one that has been oft-used to describe those of us in Louisiana who survived Hurricane Katrina. A description one finds in media spectacles, political assurances, and academic studies. However, this notion of resiliency […]
St. James Parish is fed up with its council. Residents have spent years telling the council that the Formosa Plastics development will only bring sickness and death to St. James, doubling the Parish's toxic air emissions. They've revealed to the council lie after lie that Formosa Plastics told to duplicitously gain land-use approval. And now […]
Author’s Note: We are aware that many locals who have taken a stance on this issue now fear for their safety. To protect the identity of those who have spoken out online against La Vacherie Swimming Club, Big Easy Magazine has redacted their names on social media. Like many subjects on which we report, the […]
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