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Judge declares much of N.C. ag-gag law unconstitutional

by Barry Yeoman on June 14, 2020

Click here for “Judge declares much of N.C. ag-gag law unconstitutional,” Food & Environment Reporting Network, June 2020.

The 30 Years That Brought Us HB 2

by Barry Yeoman on July 13, 2016

Click here for “The 30 Years That Brought Us HB 2,” Indy Week and Triad City Beat, July 2016.

Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?

by Barry Yeoman on January 19, 2015

North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re only just beginning. Originally published in The American Prospect. All photos © 2014 by Jenny Warburg. DERICK SMITH ARRIVED AT THE KICKOFF for North Carolina’s 2014 Moral March on a raw February morning. He zipped his […]

Tragedy, Privation and Hope

by Barry Yeoman on October 1, 2014

Joy Boothe’s inspiring journey to Moral Monday Originally published in The American Prospect WHEN JOY BOOTHE SHOWED UP at last week’s Moral Monday rally in her hometown of Burnsville, North Carolina, she was fighting both sleep- and sun-deprivation. Boothe had just driven in from Asheville, 35 miles away, where her husband was recovering from a […]

Reports from Moral Monday

by Barry Yeoman on February 10, 2014

During 2014, I reported on North Carolina’s Moral Monday movement, a faith-based organizing effort that is becoming a national model. The movement is spearheaded by the state NAACP with broad support from churches and issue-based organizations, including women’s, immigrant, environmental, LGBT, and labor groups. Most of the articles were published online by The American Prospect, illustrated by […]

Louisiana Musician Finds His Own ‘Solution to Pollution’

by Barry Yeoman on April 19, 2011

Drew Landry’s “BP Blues” helped focus attention on the plight of fishermen and oilfield workers after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Now Landry is collaborating with bluesman Dr. John on a CD of environmental songs. A sampler will be released April 20, the one-year anniversary of the oil spill, during a New Orleans concert. Produced by […]

Oilfield Worker’s Wife Sets Off for White House—on Foot

by Barry Yeoman on March 9, 2011

Cherri Foytlin is an environmental activist in Rayne, Louisiana. Her husband, Forest Foytlin, worked on a deepwater rig before the BP oil spill. On March 13 she leaves on a 1,200-mile walk to Washington, D.C. Her message to President Obama is surprising and complex. Produced by Barry Yeoman and Richard Ziglar for KRVS, Lafayette, Louisiana, […]

The Louisiana Paradox: Loving Wildlife and Oil Drilling

by Barry Yeoman on October 29, 2010

A family forced onto food stamps by the deepwater moratorium wants drilling to resume — but also laments the American dependence on oil. Part 3 of Losing Louisiana, a series originally published in onEarth. FOREST FOYTLIN WAS WORKING on a deepwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico when the radio crackled news of the blowout […]

Subsidies at Sea

by Barry Yeoman on May 1, 2001

A private shipbuilder received millions in ‘location incentives’ to save an abandoned naval yard in South Philadelphia. What did the city get in return?  Originally published in Mother Jones. PHIL ROWAN WAS CALLED OFF his construction site one crisp October afternoon and told to get himself down to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. It was an invitation to […]

Silence in the Fields

by Barry Yeoman on January 1, 2001

The U.S. government is allowing farmers to fill thousands of jobs with foreign ‘guestworkers.’ The conditions are hardly hospitable—and those who speak out can be sent straight back home.  Originally published in Mother Jones. THE GREYHOUND PULLS UP TO A TWO-STORY METAL WAREHOUSE in the tiny town of Vass, North Carolina. Efrain Madrigal gets off the bus. […]

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