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RISE St. James { 202 images } Created 10 Sep 2019

Sharon Lavigne, the founder of Rise St. James, one of the leaders in the fights for clean air in Cancer Alley. Here is a feature report I did on her: The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior https://tinyurl.com/y3shjh39 This set of photos has photos of her awakening as an activist from 2017 on.
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  • Sharon Lavigne speaking at a June 10 press conference in front of the State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She asked the Governor to veto HB 197.
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  • Sharon Lavigne speaking at a June 10 press conference in front of the State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She asked the Governor to veto HB 197.
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  • Father Vincent Dufresne deeming the burial ground for enslaved African Americans as sacred during the RISE St. James Juneteenth event.
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  • Sharon Lavigne speaking at the Juneteenth ceremony at the site of a former burial ground for enslaved African Americans on the site where Formosa plans to build a petrochemical complex
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  • Gail LeBoeuf, former member of RISE St. James, at the Juneteenth ceremony in St. James- now part of Inclusive, another community organization in St. James.
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  • Stephanie Cooper, vice president of RISE St. James, says conversations about racial disparity in the coronavirus’s impact often fail to mention the role pollution plays in compromising the health of many African-American communities that are near refineries and chemical plants.
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  • Milton Cayette, Jr., Lavigne’s brother and a member of RISE St. James, at his parents’ grave site in St. James, Louisiana: “We are more susceptible to the coronavirus because of the poison in our water, soil, and air. This virus will attack the people with weaker immune systems.” He tries not to allow himself to be afraid of getting the virus because he believes God will protect him.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, the founder of RISE St. James, in St. James Catholic Church, told me: “Black people are being polluted the most in the 4th and 5th District in St James Parish, so of course we are hit the most by the pandemic. We are already hit by the pollution in the air. The pandemic adds to what we are already going through.”
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  • Stephanie Cooper, the Vice presdient of RISE St. James, right, and Sharon Lavigne, left, with masks Cooper made. Cooper shows off a mask with a cross on it. She made them for doctors and nurses to wear so patients can see the cross when they are being cared for.
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  • Anne Rolfes with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade with Gail  LeBoeuf, Myrtle Felton, and Barbara Washington - who later formed a community group called Inclusive, at a St. James Parish Council Meeting on Jan 21.2 020.
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  • Gail  LeBoeuf next to Myrtle Felton, and Barbara Washington at a St. James Parish Council Meeting on Jan 21.2020.
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  • Sharon Lavigne at a St. James Parish on January 21, 2020 where RISE St. James asked the council to rescind its permit. A Lawyer from EarthJustice and the Center for Constitutional Rights , and a representative from Tulane's Environmental Law clinic addressed the council offering them legal reasons why they should rescind the land-use permit it previously granted to Formosa, including a report showing the site has human remains on it that likely belonged to slaves.
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  • Sharon Lavinge and others at the approach to the Sunshine Bridge in St. James Louisaina on the third day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries . The Coalition was denied a permit to march over the Sunshine Bridge and the I-10 Bridge.
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  • Sharon Lavinge , founder of  RISE ST. James at a  press confernce in the rain at the Nurdle fest, was a protest event held in front of the Louisiana, Deptartment of Envinrmental Quality's office in Baton Rouge against Formosa's Sunshine Porject.  The state regualtors are poised to decide the agency will grant Formosa needed airquality permits for its proposed Sunshine project in St. James, Louisiana, which the Buicket  Brigade, RISE St. James and other envinrmental advocates are fighitng against.
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  • Sharon Lavigne at a protest in front of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality on December 10, 2019. There, members of Rise St. James, the Louisiana Bucket Bridge, and the Center for Biological Diversity called on the state regulator to deny Formosa the air permits it granted this week.
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  • Sharon Lavigne at a protest in front of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality on December 10, 2019. There, members of Rise St. James, the Louisiana Bucket Bridge, and the Center for Biological Diversity called on the state regulator to deny Formosa the air permits it granted this week. They brought with them millions of  plastic pellets, known as nurdles, discharged by a Formosa plant in Point Comfort Texas, collected by activists there that won a 50 million dollar suit against the company for polluting the waterways surrounding the plant.
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  • Site of Formosa's planned chemical plant in Welcome, LA, in St James Parish.
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  • Watertower in Welcome Louisaina near the site of Formosa's planned petrochemical complex.
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  • Sharon at a meeting on July 2 in Convent, in St. James Parish District 4 where WIlma Subra explained the crisis at the Mosiac Plant.
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  • Sharon Lavinge next to Gail LeBoeuf and Barbara Washington at a community meeting explaining Mosaic’s proposed plan to manage 500 million gallons of acidic waste water in Convent Louisiana Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in,Convent LA. Mosaic Uncle Sam fertilizer complex in in St. James Parish has a problem with stability of a large waste pile that it is trying to mitigate.
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  • Robert Taylor and Cindy Russo with the Coalition Against Death Alley protesting in the  hallway outside of LABI’s office in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the last day of the two week environmental justice protest event.
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  • Coalition Against Death Alley protest in the  hallway outside of LABI’s office in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the last day of the two week environmental justice protest event.
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  • RISE St. James members Barbara Washington, Gail Leboeuf and Myrtle Felton at an EPA air quality moniterring trainning seminar in St. James Louisiaina on August 1, 2019.
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  • EPA air quality moniterring trainning seminar in St. James Louisiaina on August 1, 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavinge outsdie of the State Capitol after attending the Congressional Convening on Environmental Justice.
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  • Sharon Lavinge outsdie of the State Capitol after attending the Congressional Convening on Environmental Justice.
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  • Sharon Lavinge and Barbara Washington outside of the State Capitol after attending the Congressional Convening on Environmental Justice on June 26, 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavinge  at the Congresional Convening on Environmental Justice.
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  • Sharon Lavinge  at the Congresional Convening on Environmental Justice.
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  • Sharon Lavinge shaking hands with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer  at the Congresional Convening on Environmental Justice.
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  • Sharon Lavinge on the stage at the Congresional Convening on Environmental Justice.
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  • Sharon Lavinge with Gen. Honoré at a RISE St. James Revivial event on Convent, Louisiana on March 21, 2019.
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  • Gail LefBeouf and Sharon Lavigne on 4.29.2019  at St. James Parish Planning Commsions Meeting about the Wanhua Chemical Plant.
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  • Sharon Lavigne and Milton Cayette Jr, her brother , at his home in St. James, LA.
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  • Sharon Lavigne in her house in St. James Parish Louisana, near where the Formosa plant will be built.
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  • Sharon Lavigne  in the  State Capitol in Baton Rouge  on the last  day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley . The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James with Stephanie Cooper, the Vice President of Rise St. James praying at a meeting held in St. James, where  activist, lawyers, resdients who don't want Formosa to be build near their homes and pastors met to come up with a plan to stop the plant from being built.
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  • Sharon Lavigne with Robert Taylor in the  State Capitol in Baton Rouge  on the last  day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley on their way to the Governor's office to deliver a letter. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • sharon Lavigne  in the  State Capitol in Baton Rouge  on the last  day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley on their way to the Governor's office to deliver a letter. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James at afRise St. James at a meeting held in St. James, where  activist, lawyers, resdients who don't want Formosa to be build near their homes and pastors met to come up with a plan to stop the plant from being built.
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  • Sharon Lavinge on the fith day of the Coalation of Deathy Alley's 5 day march through Cancer Alley, Louisiana on the stairs of the State Capitol.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James, singing at Geraldine Mayho's funeral at the St. James Cathlic Church.
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  • Sharon at a meeting on July 1 in St. James where WIlma Subra explained the crisis at the Mosiac Plant.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James,  at Geraldine Mayho's funeral with Pastor Harry Jospeh.
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  • Sharon Lavinge founder of RISE St. James in front of the Mt. Triumph Baptist Church with a flyer about the proposed Formosa plant.
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  • Sharon Lavinge founder of RISE St. James in font of oil storage tanks in St. James Parish.
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  • Sharon Lavigne singing at Geraldine Mayho's funeral at the St. James Cathlic Church on August 7, 2019. Mayho who lived on Burton Lane across from oil storage tanks, was part of Rise St.James from the start. Her death was used as a rallying cry for RISE St. James and its supporters to carry on the fight to stop Formosa.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James,  at Geraldine Mayho's funeral.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James, singing at Geraldine Mayho's funeral at the St. James Cathlic Church.
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  • Sharon Lavigne and other Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA) members approach the Sunshine Bridge in St. James Parish on June 1, 2019,  during a protest march held CADA.
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  • Sharon Lavinge and others at the approach to the Sunshine Bridge in St. James Louisaina on the third day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries . The Coalition was denied a permit to march over the Sunshine Bridge and the I-10 Bridge.
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  • Sharon Lavinge and others at the approach to the Sunshine Bridge in St. James Louisaina on the third day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries . The Coalition was denied a permit to march over the Sunshine Bridge and the I-10 Bridge.
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  • St. James residents  on the second day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries
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  • Sharon Lavigne on Burton Lane in St. James Louisiana,  holding a anti-Formosa sign on the second day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavigne at her house in St. James Parish, Louisana, two miles from where Formosa plants to build a petrochemcial facility .
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  • Marchers in St. James Louisiana on the second day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavinge on the first day of the Coalation of Deathy Alley's 5 day march through Cancer Alley, Louisiana in front of the Whitney Plantation with Robert Tayolr.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James, Robert Taylor, and Rev. .Barbar in front of the Denka/DuPont plant .
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James, Robert Taylor, and Rev. .Barbar in front of the Denka/DuPont plant with members of the black and white community that live in Cancer Alley.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James, Robert Taylor, and Rev. William Barber, leader of the Poor People's Campaign  in front of the Denka/DuPont plant in St. John The Baptist, near Taylors home. Barber has been trying to bring attention to the plight of those in Cancer  Alley by challenging all of the democratic presidential candidates to visit Lavigne and Taylor in Louisiana and talk to the about environmental justice.
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  • Larry Sorapuru, Ruhan Nagra, Robert Taylor, Sharon Lavinge and Wilma Subra on a pannel with Rev. William Barber, head of the Poor Peoples Campaing at a pannel organized by the Guardian in New Orleans.
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  • sharon Lavigne, founp1der of Rise St. James,  a Concerned Citzens of St. John meeting on July 24, 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James,  a Concerned Citzens of St. John meeting on July 24, 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James, Robert Taylor, and Rev. .Barbar in front of the Denka/DuPont plant with members of the black and white community that live in Cancer Alley.
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  • Sharon Lavinge at her daughters home in Convent Louisiana on Easter in 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James,  at a forum with Rev. William Barber in New Orleans on July 26, 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James,  at a forum with Rev. William Barber in New Orleans on July 26, 2019..
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  • Sharon Lavinge at a St. James Planning Commision Meeting for Wanhua.
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  • 4.29.2019 St. James Parish Planning Commsions Meeting about the Wanhua Chemical Plant.
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  • 4.29.2019 St. James Parish Planning Commsions Meeting about the Wanhua Chemical Plant.
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  • Geraldine Mayho, Sharon Lavigne and Milton Cayette, Jr. at the March 25, St. James Parish Council Meeting in Convetn, Louisiana at a hearing about Wanhua Chemical plant.
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  • Geraldine Mayho, Sharon Lavigne and her brother, Milton Cayette, Jr. at the March 25, St. James Parish Council Meeting in Convent Louisiana where they came to express  their opposition to Wanhua, another company that was seeking to build a a petetrochemcial plant in St. James Parish.
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  • Sharon Lavinge at a  RISE St. James Revivial event on Convent, Louisiana on March 21, 2019.
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  • Sharon Lavinge with Stephanie  a RISE St. James Revivial event on Convent, Louisiana on March 21, 2019.
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  • March 17, 2017 in front of her home.
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  • Sharon Lavinge on her land in Welcome, Louisiana.
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  • Sharon Lavinge at home in Welcome, Louisiana.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James at afRise St. James at a meeting held in St. James, where  activist, lawyers, resdients who don't want Formosa to be build near their homes and pastors met to come up with a plan to stop the plant from being built.
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  • Sharon Lavigne, founder of Rise St. James at afRise St. James at a meeting held in St. James, where  activist, lawyers, resdients who don't want Formosa to be build near their homes and pastors met to come up with a plan to stop the plant from being built.
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  • Sharon Lavigne along with members of the Coalition Against Death Alley in the State Capitol  on the last day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' in  the reception area of the  Governor's office to deliver a letter. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries in the  State Capitol in Baton Rouge  on the last  day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley in the reception area of  Governor's office deliverring ra letter. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavigne with Robert Taylor in the  State Capitol in Baton Rouge  on the last  day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley in the lobby of the  Governor's office  deliverring a letter to an aid . The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavigne with Robert Taylor in the  State Capitol in Baton Rouge  on the last  day of a five day march through Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' held by the Coalition Against Death Alley on their way to the Governor's office to deliver a letter. The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA), is a group of Louisiana-based residents and members of various local and state organizations, is calling for a stop to the construction of new petrochemical plants and the passing of stricter regulations on existing industry in the area that include the groups RISE St. James, Justice and Beyond, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, 350 New Orleans, and the Concerned Citizens of St. John.  Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, is also known as the “Petrochemical Corridor,” where there are over 100 petrochemical plants and refineries.
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  • Sharon Lavigne at her house in St. James Parish, Louisana, two miles from where Formosa plants to build a petrochemcial facility .
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  • Sharon Lavigne at home talking to a reporter.
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  • Coalition Against Deathg Alley Meeting on Feb. 12, 2019
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  • Coalition Against Death Alley Meeting on Feb. 12, 2019
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  • Sharon Lavigne with Michael Orr going over how to use an air moniter at home her home.
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