Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

Worker: BP Cleanup Just For Show




This woman quit because the cleanup was merely cosmetic, afraid that by the time the "real cleanup begins" there will be no money left. She also states that workers were no allowed too talk to media, despite their work conditions being dictated – and made more dangerous – by BP management opinions about the way they looked to outside observers. In addition to her citing the curtailing of their access to shade, I would add BP's ongoing ban on respirators and other protective equipment.





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