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A black and white illustration of egrets standing in dark water in the marsh, with oil refineries in the background. There are two egrets and they are facing away from each other. The water is black, and there’s grass on either side. In the background is a fence, and beyond the fence is an oil refinery. The structures are all white and the sky is black. At the bottom reads “St. John Makes, Marathon Takes: Communities Want a Refund” in gray letters. Illustration by Pippin Frisbie-Calder.

February 2021

ST. JOHN MAKES, MARATHON TAKES

The Marathon Garyville Refinery is a fortress of smokestacks and towers that occupies about five square miles of former sugarcane fields on the Mississippi River. Its footprint...

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August 2020

RUNNING ON EMPTY

In a shocking ruling that has seen almost no media attention, the Dakota Access Pipeline was ordered shut down by a federal district judge in early July. Despite the fact that the...

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June 2020

ONE SIGNATURE SHORT OF FREEDOM

Gloria Williams is the longest-serving incarcerated woman in Louisiana. Last July, after nearly 50 years in prison, she was finally and unanimously approved for pardon. Since...

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November 2018

ROUGH SEAS IN THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN

On October 15, a wave crashed over the bow of a boat, flooding and sinking it in the Atchafalaya Basin. It was one of two small jon boats carrying activists and filmmakers who had...

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October 2018

SQUEEZED OUT: ALL RISK AND NO REWARD FOR THE RESIDENTS OF ST. JAMES PARISH 5th DISTRICT

The Welcome Park community center is a sturdy cinderblock building that rises about three stories out of the sugarcane fields on the west bank of St. James Parish. It’s just off...

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September 2018

PIPELINE PROTESTS ROIL ATCHAFALAYA

It’s August and the sugarcane has grown up to the eaves of the ranch-style houses spread across St. Martin Parish. As an elderly woman makes the long walk down a driveway to the...

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July 2018

LOSING GROUND: RESIDENTS OF ST. JAMES DEMAND ANSWERS FROM THE STATE

In May, community members from the town of St. James and other environmental groups fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline won a legal battle against the Louisiana Department of...

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July 2018

BODIES ON THE LINE: A Q&A WITH ALICIA COOK

Alicia Cook was one of two people arrested at an active pipeline construction site in St. James Parish on May 24. Two weeks before, a judge had issued orders to halt construction...

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illustration Ryan Blackwood

May 2017

LOADING MORE GUYS: SHINING A LIGHT ON GAY DATING IN THE APP AGE

Strange things happen when you’re a queer child in church. One minute, the holy spirit is lighting the hair of the disciples on fire and the next, I have a sudden and...

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illustration Luke Howard

March 2017

COLD BLOODED: LOUISIANA LAND VS. THE BAYOU BRIDGE PIPELINE

On the eastern edge of the Atchafalaya Basin, the brown water of the Williams Canal was barely deep enough for a canoe, the channel narrow and full of beaver-chewed sticks. Animal...

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