<![CDATA[Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/ The next level in Our community as we move our people from all talk and no action, to talk with action. In terms of organizing in respective communities to promote conscious discussion and solutions powered by The Talking Drum Collective. en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:17:27 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/images/misc_2/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/ Disrespect of Self http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/revolutionary-daily-thoughts/42749-disrespect-self.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:17 GMT "Only a fool points to his heritage with his left hand." Ghanaian(Afrikan) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought

More... ]]> Revolutionary Daily Thoughts The Talking Drum Collective http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/revolutionary-daily-thoughts/42749-disrespect-self.html Reve d afrique http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/poetic-resistance-fr/42748-reve-d-afrique.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:53:19 GMT Au seuil du 3ème Millénaire, J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique parée de l’amour oblatif de dirigeants nouveaux, serviteurs éclairés, volontaires, décidés et décisifs, pleins à exploser du sens du devoir et du sacrifice utile. J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a remis... Au seuil du 3ème Millénaire,
J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique parée de l’amour oblatif de dirigeants nouveaux, serviteurs éclairés, volontaires, décidés et décisifs, pleins à exploser du sens du devoir et du sacrifice utile.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a remis son histoire à l’endroit , plongeant ses racines dans la pensée féconde et humaniste de l’antique Egypte, et se mirant dans le courant dynamique, vivifiant de ses grands empires.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique réconciliée avec elle-même, guérie de l’aliénation mentale et de la naïveté de l’innocence du nouveau-né.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique où les intellectuels et les hommes et femmes d’action ont neutralisé, à jamais, les traîtres à leur peuple - à leur race -, Négres-Blancs promus au rang de défenseurs zélés d’intérêts inconciliables.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique où les intellectuels et les femmes et les hommes d’action ont brisé, pour toujours, les ailes d’une démocratie maquillée au service de Présidents à vie incompétents et inconscients.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique où les intellectuels ont dépassé le stade enfantin et humiliant de la consommation passive et admirative de toute pensée venue d’ailleurs et conçue pour les berner.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique, où les intellectuels osent disséquer, démanteler, dénoncer les théories économico-financières fumeuses, menteuses et truqueuses élaborées pour faire croire aux riches de leurs richesses naturelles que les richesses artificielles, productibles à volonté par l’intelligence et la volonté humaines, sont plus utiles.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique, une Afrique où les intellectuels affirment haut et fort, démontrent haut et fort, que les critères sont bidons et mystificateurs de la farfelue évaluation de la richesse ou de la pauvreté d’un pays par le biais du Produit National Brut par habitant.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a quitté, à jamais, les carrefours crasseux de la mendicité internationale où hier encore ses responsables irresponsables recevaient, agenouillés, les oboles internationales drainant derrière elles le mépris, les arrière-pensées dominatrices des donateurs.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a cessé, par le biais des privatisations imposées, le transfert de ses richesses et la réduction de sa population en une masse d’ouvriers non qualifiés, manipulables et éjectables au profit d’un capitalisme toujours plus ultra, toujours plus insolent, toujours plus prédateur.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique insensible au charme corrupteur et aliénant des pétrodollars, croisés d’un islamisme expansionniste.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a démasqué l’évangélisation sournoise de missions diverses au Label chrétien, sous le couvert d’assistance aux populations laissées pour compte par des dirigeants rapaces.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a fait la somme de ses intelligences et de ses volontés complémentaires, une Afrique qui a réussi la symbiose de ses compétences aux fins de sa reconstruction déjà enviée avant les circonstances.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a dressé, pour toujours, sur la route du mondialisme xénophobe, hypocrite et tricheur, sa culture plusieurs fois millénaire, sa volonté inébranlable de conjuguer le monde à sa propre manière.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique, une Afrique qui bloque à ses frontières et renvoie à l’expéditeur les maladies fabriquées en laboratoire aux fins de la vider de ses forces vives au bénéfice d’un repeuplement planifié par le trop plein humain de l’occident.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique assemblée, rassemblée et réalisée en une solide fédération à la puissance politique, économique, culturelle solidement établie.
J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique dont le toussotement inquiète au-delà de ses frontières les prédateurs d’hier dépouillés de toute envie, de toute volonté de domination, face à sa grandeur retrouvée.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui enfante d’enfants respectés sur toute la surface de la terre, d’enfants dont la parole parlée, d’enfants dont la parole écrite et d’enfants dont la parole chantée résonnent irrésistiblement dans les sept directions de l’univers, irradiant du centre et se promenant allègrement du nord au sud, d’est à l’ouest, du zénith au nadir.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique à l’antique civilisation restaurée, qui grandit les êtres et les choses dans le respect de la vie et de la liberté.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique androgyne comme la Mère-Père Primordiale, une Afrique où la femme noire, réinstallée dans ses droits de jadis, fait téter l’autre elle-même, son compagnon des millions d’années, au sein d’Isis, modèle de mère, modèle d’épouse, totalité des vertus cardinales, juge inflexible devant l’injustice.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique où l’homme noir, comme jadis, à l’exemple d’Osiris le Juste, d’un même pas que sa jumelle cosmique, sa compagne des millions d’années marche sur les sentiers du pouvoir aux multiples visages, nombril contre nombril.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique qui a fait retrouver à la jeunesse africaine et du Monde Noir la joie de vivre, les raisons de nourrir l’ambition d’un amour toujours plus altruiste pour la grandeur de la terre des Ancêtres.

J’ai rêvé une nouvelle Afrique ; une Afrique sous l’ombre reconnaissante de laquelle dorment enfin apaisés ses filles et fils amoureux illustres de son indépendance et sa splendeur retrouvées. ]]> Poetic Resistance Fr Linguère http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/poetic-resistance-fr/42748-reve-d-afrique.html <![CDATA[Evacuation de familles sans logement à la Courneuve. Kemi Seba s'exprime.]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/open-forum-fr/42747-evacuation-de-familles-sans-logement-la-courneuve-kemi-seba-sexprime.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:49 GMT
Evacuation de familles sans logement à la Courneuve
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Entre les années 80 et 90, un Rastafari nommé le FRERE JOSEPH, que je considère comme mon ONCLE, organisait la résistance COMMUNAUTAIRE des familles noires expulsées, et tenait à mettre en avant le problème lié à la négrophobie plutôt que le simple (et réel) problème lié à la pauvreté. Plus il s'organisait et faisait des grèves de la faim avec les frères "maliens", plus la Gauche a fini par comprendre qu'il fallait désamorcer la bombe en créant des structures "humanistes" dirigées par des blancs (anti -COMMUNAUTARISTES) ce qui éviterait de "RACIALISER" et "COMMUNAUTARISER" le problème. Résultat aujourd'hui? Quand on tabasse ces nègres avec femmes et enfants, vous avez toutes ces organisations auxquelles s'ajoutent les pseudo justiciers de SOS RACISME, du MRAP qui organisent un "CORDON DE SECURITé" pour "déracialiser la bombe". Et quand Kemi Seba se déplace là bas, il est taxé par le Mrap, SOS Racisme, et certains frères "sans logis" de vouloir mettre le feu aux poudres...AUX USA ou en ANGLETERRE, ces simples images auraient crées des EMEUTES COMMUNNAUTAIRES. Mais ici, les victimes directes vous disent "ON EST PAS MECHANT, ON VEUT DES LOGEMENTS"...Il faut pourtant faire un choix...Etre libre même s'il faut un bain de sang, ou alors obtenir des miettes, et être éternellement brutalisés en étant des mendiants..

LA LIBERTé OU LA MORT

Kemi Seba (Kemiour Aarim Shabazz), Ministre francophone du New Black Panther Party ]]> Open Forum Fr Sourakhata http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/open-forum-fr/42747-evacuation-de-familles-sans-logement-la-courneuve-kemi-seba-sexprime.html <![CDATA[Haiti's Recovery Is Halted Due To "Deadbeat Donors".]]> http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-world-news/42746-haitis-recovery-halted-due-deadbeat-donors.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:56:55 GMT According to Anderson Coooper 360, Haiti has received very little of the financial aid promised by nations in the wake of the earthquake dissaster. All Things Anderson: AC360 Live from Haiti - Day 2 (http://www.allthingsandersoncooper.com/2010/07/ac360-live-from-haiti-day-2.html) This... According to Anderson Coooper 360, Haiti has received very little of the financial aid promised by nations in the wake of the earthquake dissaster.

All Things Anderson: AC360 Live from Haiti - Day 2


This proves that we as Afrikan people need to quit depending on others to save/help us!!! ]]> Afrikan World News PTB http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-world-news/42746-haitis-recovery-halted-due-deadbeat-donors.html Part II Psalms 140 A Prayer For The Deliverance From The Violent Action Of The Enemie http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/judaic-christian/42745-part-ii-psalms-140-prayer-deliverance-violent-action-enemie.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:59:18 GMT
THE POWER AND MIRACLE OF PRAYER
Psalms of Prayer & Praise

Part 75: Part II Psalms 140 A Prayer For The Deliverance From The Violent Action Of The Enemies Of God
In the name of God Master, of the Universe, Ruler of the earth
Editors Note: Beloved as we stay in the Spirit, praying and listening we hear the following:
“There was a man who was never devout but attended great meetings at a vast and large Church House. His prayers were mundane as they were out of rote and duty as this is what the service called for. One day a gun was placed to his head by a robber. He pleaded to man for relief and for his life. He also fell upon his knees and crawled for life that man had not given.”

“Meanwhile there was another man not welcome in the big or small Church Houses as he followed Jesus. This same robber lurking and licking his wounded spirit was thrilled with placing man at his mercy. He then placed this same gun to head of John. But John prayed to God as he knew God has the power over life or death and not man.”
Greetings Brethren,

Peace be unto you. To the Church (the Church of Christ Jesus the Prophets and Apostles) and believing Christians everywhere. To those that believe in the Bible (the Spirit of God) as the supreme authority that governs all of humankind. In this we give thanks to God the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit that leads and guides us the straightway.

We continue with Part II of our discussion of Psalms 140. David prayed for many things during the time he called out to the Lord. Vengeance is not given unto the greedy or those that stand with God. However, God will justly deal with all that liveth. We resume our discussion with verse 6.

Psalms 140: 6 “I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.”
We have discussed supplication in detail at Part 5 of this series. At that previous discussion we revealed that supplication is a very earnest form of prayer.

For a cross reference to verse 6 go with us to Psalms 112. There are 10 verses here and our primary verse is the last verse. Those that fear and honor God are blessed. “The wicked shall see it and be grieved: he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.”
God does not bless us for doing right with material wealth. But the righteous have the prospects of being prosperous by doing what is right. Meanwhile don’t be dismayed by those that seek not God nor do they come to honor Him in their wealth. At Matthew 6: 33 we are taught that righteous actions of those that fear God will be forever lasting because it is based on Truth.

Meanwhile as we return to our primary scripture we see that David was covered and shielded from fatal action when he confronted his enemies in battle. David also had a fear that the unrighteous man might be self-exalted in his wicked devices if he was successful.

Psalms 140: 9 “As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.”
The head is the part of the body where schemes and plots are formed. The lips will then eventually express the plots. Here David pleads in prayer that the lips feel the sting of the wicked plots.

Psalms 140: 10 “Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.”
We see a figurative use of words noted in this verse. David wished that his enemies would suffer severe punishment for their wicked plots.

At the 11th Division of Psalms we find only 7 verses. God will always hear our prayer in the midst of trouble. Our trust in Him will allow us to face our problems. Now look at verse 6:
“Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup.”
It is no doubt as we read and study the Bible that the wicked the unrighteous will suffer the great penalty of everlasting death and the final judgment. The figurative use of the terms mean that those that oppose God will be defeated in the end. Well do they have victory now as often they (the wicked) seem to prosper in health and wealth at the chagrin of the righteous? There is no victory without Jesus beloved. Those that seem to prosper that don’t know God suffer now and later. We can see this as we lean on the Spirit and not man.

Turn now with us to Matthew the 3rd Chapter. Here we find scripture regarding the ministry of John the Baptist. At the 10th verse is where we find our cross reference:
“And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”
Again we see the figurative use of terms in this verse. But the basic meaning is that God will render a judgment in regard to sin. However, many people that crowd the church houses today and reside all through the countryside have great confusion as to what is sin and what is not. We (you) cannot make up sin or deny the existence of certain sins.

Psalms 140: 11-13 “Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.”
One is established here when they are successful in their wicked plots. The phrase “evil shall haunt” means that David believed that the violent unrighteous man would lose and not see a victory.
Now turn to Psalms 34: 21 for another reference to this thought:
“Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.”
The wicked will lose now and later. The final judgment as we are taught does not always come literally in this life. Those that do not repent will be slain with an eternal fire and death at the last and final day as it is written.

140: 12 “I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.”
David moved as we do these days in the knowledge and faith of what God had done and what He was doing. We also come proclaiming that we also know of something’s that God will do in the future. Thus as David traveled in confidence so does the FreedomJournal. We thus thank Almighty God for His word.

140: 13 “Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.”
The righteous and upright are the faithful. David was thankful for he looked forward to the eternal favor of Peace and Paradise. We lean on David as we embrace the Spirit and also see Heaven. Glory to God.

Cont. Part 76: Psalms 51: God’s Forgiveness: In Prayer We Confess Our Sins

Peace and Paradise,
Dr. Carl A. Patton writing for the FreedomJournal Press 29 July 2010 in the year of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.


]]> Judaic/Christian FreedomJournal http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/judaic-christian/42745-part-ii-psalms-140-prayer-deliverance-violent-action-enemie.html The Proper Attitude http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/revolutionary-daily-thoughts/42744-proper-attitude.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:52 GMT "For I have come to understand that when the Black Man assumes the proper attitude about the sacredness of the feminine energy of the Black Woman, he then

More... ]]> Revolutionary Daily Thoughts The Talking Drum Collective http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/revolutionary-daily-thoughts/42744-proper-attitude.html To Help Change /1 http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/poetic-resistance-spoken-word-poetry/42743-help-change-1-a.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:43:26 GMT Most of ADN ladies know how to keep up a boast from a guy, in letting them know they bring no matter up to follow sense ; and those ladies know how to have them turn their coats which is their masculinity dressings and stay the -contrary to virility - lesser of themselves. I have one of my artist... Most of ADN ladies know how to keep up a boast from a guy, in letting them know they bring no matter up to follow sense ; and those ladies know how to have them turn their coats which is their masculinity dressings and stay the -contrary to virility - lesser of themselves. I have one of my artist names that goes by the name of Jokery. Moral : Never be stupid or the joke will be your Truth.



Peace Mockery ! Chart Your Own Crackups


Concrete Fool


I choose up a guy and I make a fun of him.
How stupid could he be to accept a lady’s trip ?
I don’t care sort, I don’t care sort of him from me.
Thank you.


He said he could reincarnate a chicken.
I said yep, that’s bright of a sensible man.
That’s not really the like or the appreciation I needed
From him or 'wanted to make a brim of stupidity at cern and deem.
He’s a fool, he needs to display the definition and seem.
So what else could he teach us about ?
And the report goes :

I choose up a guy and I make a fun of him.
How cupid could he be to accept a lady’s trip ?
I don’t care sort. I don’t care sort of him from me.
Thank you.

All served for nothing and I’ve pretented a value.
All void and useless then, I’ve kindly warned as well, pfew.
He could have reflected about the motives of vertue (=righteousness)
That’s when I’ve rewarned almost stunned, it’s phony all through
Out ! He got tricked and that’s the purpose I jokery ! Woop !
He could have had me laugh. Next !
And the sincerity talks :

I choose up a guy and I make a fun of him.
How stupid could he be to accept a lady’s trip ?
I don’t care sort all in all, I don’t care a kind of him from me.
I don’t care a kind, I don’t care of him in motives.
Thank you...Perspectives…So the conscience is.

©2008

 ]]> Poetic Resistance - Spoken Word - Poetry JAH - GREEN http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/poetic-resistance-spoken-word-poetry/42743-help-change-1-a.html New Podcast - What if the Tea Party was Black? with Jasiri X http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/hood-news/42741-new-podcast-what-if-tea-party-black-jasiri-x.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:18:27 GMT What if the Tea Party was Black? Image: http://www.raceforthetimes.com/images/stories/jasiri-dc-199x300.jpg (http://raceforthetimes.com/components/com_podcast/media/rft_teapartyblack.mp3) Race for the Times (http://www.raceforthetimes.com) brings you a SPECIAL PODCAST..... Race for the... What if the Tea Party was Black?


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Race for the Times presents a discussion with Jasiri X, on his new song "What if the Tea Party Was Black." Join the discussion with the Last Black Hero (Host/Co-Producer) and Dj Rage (Co-host/Producer) as the rap with Activist/Minister/Rapper Jasiri X from Pittsburg, Penn. The discussion revolves around the recent news with the Tea Party, NAACP, Mass Media Lynchings and the new 'Klimate in Amerikkka'. Brother Jasiri new joint, comes on the tail end of an article by Tim Wise, "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black ." When Jasiri read the article after getting a copy from Paradise from X-Clan, "I saw the article and I liked the concept," said Jasiri. So Jasiri hit the studio with producer Cynik Lethal while Paradise grabbed his video camera and they went on their mission to defeat the Right Wing propaganda machine.

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www.raceforthetimes.com ]]> Hood News hrapbrownn http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/hood-news/42741-new-podcast-what-if-tea-party-black-jasiri-x.html Retuning forumnite http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/introduce-your-afrikan-self/42740-retuning-forumnite.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:42:21 GMT Ba won ni, It has been a long time since I have been here, Glad this site is still here. I hope interact with all, as well as keep abreast as to what is going on in our world Ire o Baba Ifaleye Ba won ni,
It has been a long time since I have been here, Glad this site is still here. I hope interact with all, as well as keep abreast as to what is going on in our world
Ire o
Baba Ifaleye ]]> Introduce Your Afrikan Self Baba Ifaleye http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/introduce-your-afrikan-self/42740-retuning-forumnite.html Gulf Spill and Katrina? http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/open-forum/42739-gulf-spill-katrina.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:10:53 GMT I can't help but to believe, in reading this article that there is some sort of "karma" connection between this oil spill and how they treated the residents (especially African residents) of the gulf during the Katrina hurricane.

They wanted to get that oil so bad, well they got it alright.

Orisha come-up'ins if you ask me........


100 days of oil: Gulf life will never be the same - Yahoo! News

GRAND ISLE, La. – A hundred days ago, shop owner Cherie Pete was getting ready for a busy summer serving ice cream and po-boys to hungry fishermen. Local official Billy Nungesser was planning his wedding. Environmental activist Enid Sisskin was preparing a speech about the dangers of offshore drilling.

Then the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded off the coast of Louisiana, and in an instant, life along the Gulf Coast changed for good.

Pete spends her days worrying that the fishing industry may never recover. Nungesser has put his wedding on hold while he sits in meetings and argues with federal officials. And Sisskin continues to talk about the dangers of drilling — only now, people are listening.

The 100 days since the April 20 explosion have been a gut-wrenching time for folks who work, play and live along the Gulf Coast. The Gulf is a sanctuary for some, an employer for others, and now, a tragedy.

These are their stories.

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The Restaurant Owners

A hundred days ago, business was booming at Barrios Seafood Restaurant in Golden Meadow, La., during Lent, when many of the Roman Catholics in south Louisiana forgo meat on Fridays or altogether. Customers were lined up for meals of crab, shrimp, fish and other seafood delivered hours after being pulled from the Gulf.

Alicia and Thomas Barrios believed their years of struggling to get the business going were finally paying off.

Click image to see photos of oil spill aftermath


AP
"We were saying, 'If business is this good now, just think what it will be like in the summer,'" Alicia Barrios said. "It was more money than we had ever made before in our lives."

They began sprucing up the restaurant, even adding a patio with visions of customers lingering there this summer. Then the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and the oil began filling the Gulf.

"I'd say about 50 percent of our business was tourist, and they stopped coming immediately," Alicia said. "Seafood got hard to get, the price went up and people are worried about eating it."

These days, Thomas Barrios is working in the Vessels of Opportunity program, helping BP clean up the spill. Alicia Barrios has had to lay off two of her employees and the adjacent market is only open two days a week.

She's also thinking about how to change the menu if the price of seafood keeps going up and it remains scarce.

"I guess we could start serving pasta and hamburgers," she said. "But I'm afraid to spend the money on a new sign and menus. To be honest, if it wasn't for the BP check, we'd already be closed."

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The Sandwich Maker

A hundred days ago, Cherie Pete and her husband, Alfred, were expecting another steady stream of customers at the little store they used her life savings to build on the main road to Venice, La.

Everyone in town calls the 45-year-old mother of three "Maw" anyway, so she decided to name the place Maw's Sandwich and Snack Shop.

The store opened last year, attracting a devoted group of locals who came for po-boys and ice cream, plus weekenders who showed up from New Orleans in droves to rent campsites and charter fishing trips.

"And all of a sudden, we don't have them coming in," she said.

She's still doing decent business, still working 14 hour days, but it's not the same. Now most of her customers are contractors and cleanup workers.

"We've met people from all over the country, but it's not happy meetings. It's people coming in for work," she said. "It's not a typical exciting day at work for me any more, it's just another day at work."

Pete knows the business won't last when the cleanup ends.

"I'm just afraid the bottom is going to fall out," she says. "I'm not sure when. You don't know if it's today, or tomorrow or five years from now."

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The Seafood Broker

A hundred days ago, Darlene Kimball was getting ready for a busy summer at her family's docks in Pass Christian, Miss., waiting for the buyers who would snap up hundreds of pounds of shrimp from the backs of boats, loading them into ice chests and hauling them back to giant freezers.

Now the place is empty, and the only boats she sees are the ones used by BP contractors cleaning up the spill.

Kimball's family has been in the Mississippi seafood industry since 1930, and she's never wanted to do anything else. But recently the 43-year-old had to do the unthinkable — draft a resume so she could look for another line of work.

"Everything's different," she said. "My life has gone from a fast-paced to nothing."

She misses the excitement of fishermen calling from the water announcing their latest haul, the awkward tourists trying to negotiate with boat captains for a piece of the catch. Most of all, maybe, she misses the sound of the seagulls circling the boats long before they come into town.

"There's nothing around me," she said. "My culture is gone, my livelihood is gone. What my grandfather and father have worked so hard to accomplish is in jeopardy."

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The Activist

A hundred days ago, Florida environmental activist Enid Sisskin was scanning through oil spill data from the Minerals Management Service, preparing a speech on the dangers of offshore drilling.

Then the rig exploded, and she ended up rewriting the entire thing. She even told a halfhearted joke, about how future discussions of offshore drilling would have to begin with "a noun, a verb and the words Deepwater Horizon."

But Sisskin, who teaches in the public health program at University of West Florida, hasn't laughed much these past 100 days. She lives in the coastal community of Gulf Breeze and has long been a vocal opponent of Gulf drilling rigs.

"There's a constant knot in the pit of my stomach," she said. "I'm afraid for the future. Are we going to come back? Are our waters going to be clean enough? Are we going to have the sea birds? Can we comfortably say to tourists, come on down and get in the water and eat the fish?"

She's been busy this summer, teaching classes and giving talks to groups on the effects of oil and dispersants on public health.

There is one thing she doesn't say in her speeches: I told you so.

"This is something I never ever wanted to be able to say," she said. "It's vindication, but what a horrible way to be vindicated."

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The Tourism Mogul

A hundred days ago, Frank Besson was raking in money at the tourism empire he's built on Grand Isle, a spit of land along the coast where vacationers have flocked for decades. What started with his father's souvenir shop expanded to a daiquiri bar across the street and a restaurant next door.

On a good day, he used to make $1,600. The shop's take last Saturday, when the island hosted a benefit concert? A measly $28.18, he says, pointing to the day's receipt.

His little monopoly is in shambles these days. The restaurant, known for a homemade pecan glaze that's perfect for chicken fingers, is closed indefinitely. The daiquiri bar opens late each night to a trickle of customers. And most days you can find Besson inside his locked souvenir shop, watching a tiny TV.

The only thing that's keeping the business afloat, he said ruefully, is that BP leased two of his rental homes and signed a catering contract with his shuttered restaurant.

Besson, 61, is still optimistic that business will turn around and he'll be able to reopen his restaurant. But for now, he's found himself in an unusual position. He's actually hoping for a storm.

"We want some rough weather so we can disperse and dissolve some of that stuff," he said. "I hate to say it, and I never thought I would say that, but that's what we want."

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The Local Official

A hundred days ago, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser was busy with blueprints of fire stations, schools and community centers damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and still in need of rebuilding. He was planning his wedding to his longtime fiance, which they postponed after the storm.

"I had a life," Nungesser says.

Now, his life looks like this: Endless meetings with the Coast Guard. Endless arguments with federal officials and BP workers. And countless media appearances — he's been on Anderson Cooper so often alongside fellow Cajun James Carville that the trio are like the holy trinity of nighttime cable TV.

The new fire stations, schools and community centers have been put on hold. He's seen his mother twice in the past few months — and she lives right in the coastal Louisiana parish. And then there's the matter of the wedding. That's not happening anytime soon, not until life calms down and the fight is over.

For now, he's got a war to wage. That's how he characterizes his region's fight against BP, the federal government, the oil.

"A hundred days later, I can't look you in the eye and tell you who's in charge," he said. "I would not want to go to war with this team. Looking back, it's very sad that a lot of marshes and wildlife could have been saved if the federal government and BP had just listened to local people."

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The Priest

A hundred days ago, the Rev. Mike Tran was busy ministering to his flock at the lone Catholic church on Grand Isle.

When he was first assigned, he dragged his feet. It was too small, too isolated and there was too little to do. Boy was he wrong.

He arrived in July 2005, weeks before Hurricane Katrina demolished much of the island. Parishioners at Our Lady of the Isle weathered that storm and the others that followed, but the spill has presented a new challenge. It threatens their way of life.

Church attendance has been cut in half. Weekly donations are down $1,000. Yet more people than ever are walking up the stilted church's stairs to seek food and money.

The morning after the rig explosion, Tran held a mass to honor the 11 victims. Most church members hadn't even heard the news.

The last three months have been a whirlwind of prayer, charity and counseling.

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