This collection approaches environmental justice concerns from diverse geographical, ethnic, and disciplinary perspectives, always viewing environmental issues as integral to problems of social inequality and oppression. We provide study space adjacent to our Grant Hall offices. Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it. She branched out, publishing a fact sheet that she says state officials eventually shut down: Printed materials ran the risk of becoming part of a court record in the multi-billion-dollar lawsuits that everyone could see coming. A siege of herring floating dead atop petroleum-laden seas. At the center of the disaster are Gregg, a down-on-his-luck skipper, and Lee, his lone deckhand. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a well-known hazard in the Gulf of Alaska, the story presents a region plunged into an oil-slicked crisis.
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The essays chosen by the editors build on one another, provoking thought both within and across the selections. Friends urged her to do something, to put her writing to work somehow. What happens when the American dream collides head-on with a nation's dependence on fossil fuels? Like Alaskans statewide, Evans remembered looking to the Coast Guard and government regulators for answers: How fast was the slick moving today? The Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 1989 was one of the worst environmental disasters caused by mankind. Oil and Water, a novel by Mei Mei Evans, focuses on precisely this question. She is among editors of the Environmental Justice Reader. The selections also include cultural analyses of environmental justice arts, such as community art and greening projects in inner-city Baltimore, and literary analyses of writers such as Jimmy Santiago Baca, Linda Hogan, Barbara Neely, Nez Perce orators, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Karen Yamashita--artists who address issues such as toxicity and cancer, lead poisoning of urban African American communities, and Native American struggles to remove dams and save salmon.
Mei Mei Evans is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Master of Arts degree program at Alaska Pacific University. The distribution rights worldwide, own by the company Almost Red Productions, are still available. By the time Exxon executives arrived at Homer to deliver briefings of their own, the gap was wide between post-spill life and cleanup readiness that industry had touted for years. The film was one of the first collaborations of the director with the composer, that work together in the next projects, the feature film and the short film. We take time to know our students, to offer personalized instruction. It also gave those of us who lived through the disaster without really being affected by it physically and emotionally, unlike those who were at ground zero and all of the areas around the ocean.
Chosen: Mei Mei Evans’ first novel attracts notice for social justice theme
Oil And Water, Paperback By Evans, Mei Mei, Isbn 1602232008, Isbn-13 97816022. As thousands of miles of shoreline and sea are obliterated, the spill threatens the lives and livelihoods of the coastal community of Selby. It is clear that Evans has a take on the disaster and its aftermath. And when the residents are presented with a controversial deal—accept handouts in the form of work from the very company responsible for the disaster—they must learn just how important it is to find strength in the connections that bind humans to each other and the natural world. The dense, stinking ooze filling once-crystalline tidepools, suffocating delicately tendriled anemones and so many other forms of intracate sea life. The postproduction was completed in 2010. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a well-known hazard in the Gulf of Alaska, the story presents a region plunged into an oil-slicked crisis.
Chosen: Mei Mei Evans’ first novel attracts notice for social justice theme
I was 20 when I hitchhiked across the country to Homer, a Kachemak Bay fishing town that became my home for many years. And we insist every now and again that there be fun. Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein. This information helps us design a better experience for all users. As thousands of miles of shoreline and sea are obliterated, the spill threatens the lives and livelihoods of the coastal community of Selby.
Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a well-known hazard in the Gulf of Alaska, the story presents a region plunged into an oil-slicked crisis. For me, an environmentalist who escaped New England to live in pristine Alaska, the tanker wreck was life-changing as well. Please review the types of cookies we use below. Cookie Settings OverDrive uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience, monitor our performance, and understand overall usage trends for OverDrive services including OverDrive websites and apps. Then in 1989, the Exxon Valdez tanker went aground, and life was disrupted in Alaska fishing towns like Homer. Stein is Associate Professor of American Literature and Director of Women's and Multicultural Studies at Siena College. Soon she starts to miss him, however it may be late as she discovers that Julian has found the real Mei Mei, who looks startlingly similar to her.
To date I would so nothing has changed to prevent another disaster of this magnitude. In addition to the festival selection, the film received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Kodak Scholarship Awards 2009, in representation of from ,. The of Mei Mei was the filmmaker and usual collaborator of ,. News crews arrived from around the world. The book closes with a section of essays that offer models to teachers hoping to incorporate these issues and texts into their classrooms. Some of the locations where in Los Angeles and in California. A pride of sea lions surging through the crude, their stiff whiskers blackened, faces filmed with grease.
Oil And Water, Paperback By Evans, Mei Mei, Isbn 1602232008, Isbn-13 97816022. In just three years—the time it took to complete the 800-mile line from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez—some 70,000 workers would go north in a stampede reminiscent of Gold Rush days. Mei Mei Evans, author of Oil and Water, was a public information officer for Homer, Alaska during the devistating event. Located some 300 miles south of the tanker grounding and reached by boat or plane only, the cove gained international attention when official crews departed, leaving Mars to a team of a dozen or so volunteers working a week at a time from July through November. As they cross paths with the tanker and later the residents of Selby, they are faced with decisions that will have a lasting impact on the entire community. A published fiction writer and longtime activist, she was the statewide coordinator of the Oil Reform Alliance.
As they cross paths with the tanker and later the residents of Selby, they are faced with decisions that will have a lasting impact on the entire community. And when the residents are presented with a controversial deal—accept handouts in the form of work from the very company responsible for the disaster—they must learn just how important it is to find strength in the connections that bind humans to each other and the natural world. Using these events and her personal experience as influence for the novel, Evans has attempted to display the complexities of battling such a enormous environmental catastrophe. What would happen to Alaska Native people who relied on the sea for traditional foods? While on sabbatical in 2007, Evans completed much of the writing with support from an Individual Artist grant from the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation. And when the residents are presented with a controversial deal—accept handouts in the form of work from the very company responsible for the disaster—they must learn just how important it is to find strength in the connections that bind humans to each other and the natural world.
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