Hightower’s Heroes: Sharon Lavigne and an update on Rise St. James

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English - June 19, 2024 16:01 - ★★★★★ - 303 ratings
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You all may remember this Chat & Chew episode with Hightower and Sharon Lavigne from Rise St. James in Louisiana. Sharon is a retired special education teacher turned environmental activist. Over the course of her lifetime she saw her beautiful thriving community where families could live off the land (farm, grow fruits and vegetables, have a some livestock, fish in the Mississippi) turn into “

You all may remember this Chat & Chew episode with Hightower and Sharon Lavigne from Rise St. James in Louisiana.

Sharon is a retired special education teacher turned environmental activist. Over the course of her lifetime she saw her beautiful thriving community where families could live off the land (farm, grow fruits and vegetables, have a some livestock, fish in the Mississippi) turn into “Cancer Alley” – a polluted, petrochemical-factory-filled section of land in Louisiana along the Mississippi where deaths from cancer are much higher than average.