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Derrick Evans Archives - Come Hell or High Water

Beloved environmental justice champion Rose Johnson died in April 2020

Turkey Creek in the news

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Historic Black community fights military project on Coast land fouled by arsenic, lead Sun Herald, February 8, 2021 “It’s sort of a never-ending struggle. I’ve told my clients as long as the city has this land zoned industrial, they’re going…

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Reel Power at Power Shift

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Last weekend Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek went to Power Shift, the world’s largest youth gathering of climate activists. The film was one of several showcased there by Reel Power, a project of Working Films that brings together filmmakers...
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CHHW – Gulf Coast Sendoff

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Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek had its premiere Sunday at the New Orleans Film Festival, and the theater was full of old friends and new ones. Derrick Evans and Reilly Morse (Mississippi Center for Justice) joined me after the screening for…

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