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Union staff and alumni learn how devastation continues years after the BP oil spill

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Union staff and alumni learn how devastation continues years after the BP oil spill

Description

Union's Poverty Scholar in Residence Willie Baptist (center right) listens as Vietnam veteran and oysterman Byron Encalade (center) and two fisherman in Point A’La Hache, Louisiana describe how their livelihoods have been devastated by the BP oil spill during a fact finding delegation to the Gulf coast as part of the call for a new Poor People's Campaign. Photo by Jose Vasquez.

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Jose Vasquez

Date

2014-11

Citation

Jose Vasquez, “Union staff and alumni learn how devastation continues years after the BP oil spill,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed April 20, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/items/show/9327.

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