December 19, 2019...The remaining cemetery takes up about 1.4 acres (0.6 hectares) of a 2,319-acre (940-hectare) site, according to the documents, made public Wednesday as attachments to a letter from RISE St. James...
December 18, 2019...The burial site is on what was the Buena Vista plantation and was confirmed in a June report written by an environmental consultant hired by Formosa Plastics Group called TerraXplorations Inc. and...
December 19, 2019... Residents in St James expressed frustration that Formosa did not notify community members about the discovery of the sites, particularly before the parish council approved permits in December...
Governor Asked to End Project in St. James D ecember 18, 2019, St. James, Louisiana — RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots community group, recently learned that graves of enslaved people have...
On Episode 21 of "The Activist Files," Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney speaks with Anthonine Pierre of the Brooklyn Movement Center and Marielle Shavonne Smith...
Updated: December 19, 2019
December 19, 2019...The activists, who feel they’ve already been lied to, think there might be even more unmarked graves on the land Formosa wants to develop — and that the company might still be hiding the extent of...
Angelo Guisado is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he specializes in government misconduct, racial justice, and immigrants’ rights issues. His practice currently...
Letters Raise Alarming New Information about Cancer Risks, Company’s Failure to Protect Residents and Alert Parish About Burial Grounds of Enslaved People December 23, 2019, St. James, LA – Today,...
December 27, 2019RISE St. James in Lousiana discovered the presence of a burial ground for slaves after reviewing emails and records from Formosa Plastics, whom they allege did not tell the local community about it...
December 30, 2020Residents in St. James Parish are asking council officials to revoke a land use permit for a planned 14-plant chemical complex, asserting that newly discovered information proves that Formosa’s...
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