The BP spill in the Gulf is just one in a series of oil-related disasters that have affected small African-American, Native and Vietnamese communities. Jordan Flaherty shares some of the history of struggle on the Louisiana coast. Flaherty is a community activist from New Orleans and author of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6.

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