Guest Opinion

Exploring the Oregon-Gulf connection

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, Jul 21, 2010

During the second week in August, 20 Oregonians with a wealth of compassion, community service experience and technical expertise will show the nation what the Gulf Coast disaster looks like from inside the gulf.

We will tour those communities that have been hardest hit. We will shine a sustained light on what our neighbors need to survive and what the environment needs to recover.

When we return, we will create a book, a photo essay, a video and audio record of the experiences of our neighbors and what we have witnessed. We will begin a dialogue of personal responsibility and change.

Recently, there has been much more attention to our project and thus, many more questions. Why are we going? Who is going? What do we hope to accomplish? Are we going to help with the cleanup? Every one of these questions is relevant and important and I’ve been quietly pondering them.

I believe people are deeply saddened and overwhelmed by this crisis. They truly want to help.

I understand why this crisis brings people to tears and anger so quickly. I understand why parents of small children feel an added responsibility of how to explain this to them, the inheritors of this catastrophe.

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