Laurel here:

All the photos in this video are from beaches along Louisiana and Mississippi and were taken from March 2011 to September 2011.  Did you know this is happening, or did you believe what BP wants you to believe through false advertising that ALL IS GOOD?  It is heartbreaking and we live here every day and have to see it.  BP has not taken care of their mistake and now the sea creatures are having to pay through the sacrifice of their lives.  Please Pass this on!  Something needs to be done.  Share this with everyone you know!  We the people of Louisiana and Mississippi thank you for listening and watching.


Watch all the way to the end!  At the end you see what this has done to human lives...

by Kerry Kennedy
from www.nola.com

More than a year after a private company operating in public waters retched 170 million gallons of crude and 2 million gallons of toxic dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico, creating one of the world's largest environmental catastrophes, we still lack thorough and reliable statistics on the BP oil disaster's impact on the health of residents.

Along with Stephen Bradberry, who is the executive director of the New Orleans-based Alliance Institute and the recipient of the 2005 RFK Human Rights Award, I recently joined a delegation traveling across the Gulf Coast region, speaking with fishermen, oystermen, shrimpers, restaurant workers and neighbors about the illnesses they have suffered in the wake of this calamity.

I couldn't help but think of the trip that my father, Robert Kennedy, made to the Mississippi Delta in 1967. He was horrified by the poverty, the children whose bellies were "swollen with hunger." He believed we had a duty, as a nation, to relieve their suffering and soothe their pain.

Today, the children and grandchildren of those very same families continue to suffer from systemic governmental neglect, the debilitating heritage of communities marginalized by skin color, religion, education level, income or access to power. It is long past time for federal action.

In Biloxi, Miss., a fisherman named Kwan told us he was on a cleanup crew for BP, and he and his fellow fishermen have had rashes across their bodies, which itch until they bleed, ever since. In that city, the health care facility is so over-booked, it takes up to three months for a doctor's appointment.

Catfish Miller, another fisherman, also worked on the cleanup crew for BP. He was denied gloves, a respirator, eyewear or any form of protective gear. He suffered searing headaches, ear infections and sores in his nose and throat for months on end. He said no doctor he went to would tie his ailments to toxic poisoning.

We heard dozens of people across the region talk about similar health problems and obstacles to care, including long travel distances to health facilities and the need for cash outlay among those in cash-strapped communities. There are many other reasons.

Local doctors generally lack access to the expertise, training and equipment to diagnose toxic poisoning. They don't want to be called as expert witnesses in lawsuits with BP. They are afraid of malpractice suits and will not treat patients unless they have specialty training, adding to the disincentives to diagnose. And, with most patients self-employed and uninsured, few can afford the expensive tests and medicines necessary to show causation and obtain proper care.

Last year, President Obama pledged that Gulf residents would be "made whole." To honor that pledge, Congress must ensure that health care is adequate, affordable, proximate and available; that health care workers are trained to diagnose, track and treat toxic poisoning; and that the people of the Gulf are treated with respect, no matter what their background.

There is a solution. The late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy signed the first federal law providing community health care centers to people in need. Today, 23 million Americans depend on those centers for care. Under legislation passed last year, the centers would expand to include 40 million Americans, many of them along the Gulf Coast.

If Republicans in Congress don't make good on their threat to decimate the progress that's already been made, the people of the Gulf might stand a chance.

First responders to the 9/11 tragedy did not have to prove causation in order to get treatment, they only had to show they were in the vicinity of the terrorist attack. Similarly, the 150,000-strong cleanup crew who sacrificed themselves, and their families and neighbors who live along the Gulf Coast, should not have to prove that their symptoms are caused by BP's catastrophe, only that they were there.

It's time for us to provide the families of the Gulf Coast with the health care they deserve.

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Kerry Kennedy is president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.

ka here:

please watch this amazing movie.  The people speaking in Ecuador when Texaco/Chevron came down to the rain forest to drill for oil and left a big ole messy spill that now has contaminated all of their water sources and contributed to massive numbers of people with cancers.  Texaco just like BP says the same thing that they didn't do anything wrong and that the people are liars.  Big oil companies are as corrupt as they come.  This is what the people of the Gulf Coast can expect:

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ka here:

please read this article and hear what the people are saying.  They are wishing for death because they are so in pain.  There must be something we can do for these innocent people. 

http://www.csindy.com/colorado/gulf-coast-syndrome/Content?oid=2171419

ka here:

like I said, this corexit and oil spill will take everything in its path. That includes humans who are now sacrificing their lives for opening their hearts and racing to the scene to do their part.  Now they are sick and dying.  Who is listening?  Who is helping them?