Here we follow poet Lenelle N. Moise’s surreal submergence into her mother’s passion for water, the sea, vodoun. Imagery, juxtapositions, fluidity, they haunt this reverie, influenced by unseen forces, diaspora and the Haitian sea goddess Erzulie.
Month: July 2011
Nuclear Nano-Gnat Infestation
When we see a giant plume, shooting out the top of a failed reactor in full meltdown, those clouds are full of nuclear fleas, mixing with the air we breathe.
Property Values Go Nuclear
You can evacuate after a nuclear meltdown, but your mortgage stays put, radiating downward. A sad syndrome, easily avoided by shutting San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station now.
Honduras: Patuca River Dams Threaten Indigenous Survival
The Moskitia is the largest, most biodiverse expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon Basin – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it that way. Unfortunately, no greater threat exists to the natural wealth hidden in the “Mesoamerican Biological Corridor” than the gigantic, transnational Patuca II, IIA, and III Dams.
Yellowstone Druids: The Last Valley of the Wolves?
After centuries of fear and superstition, research has given the wolf a new image as a social creature with an indispensible role in ecosystems. Unfortunately, wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains have been removed from the endangered species list. The Druid Pack of Yellowstone National Park symbolizes the rise and fall of this much maligned predator.
Regulating Nukes? There’s No Escaping the Plume
The lingering death-knell hidden inside the million vulnerabilities of every nuke-plant cannot be
supervised away. Gaming electrical power from nuclear generation is too-complex a technology not to finally fail. When it does, all hell breaks loose, and nukes’ evil genie never goes back in the bottle. Loose-nukes / radioactive meltdown, released to the atmosphere, doesn’t sink ships, it sinks society.
Haitian Healing Pilgrimage: Saut-d’Eau Waterfall
For more than a century now, Haitians have trekked to the picturesque grove where, legend has it, the Virgin Mary – or Erzuli Dantor – appeared in the middle of the 19th century on a palm tree near the 100-foot waterfall and began healing the sick.