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...mile) stretch of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans that is lined with 136 petrochemical plants and refineries -- have learned to endure choking fumes, stunted gardens, contaminated crayfish and abnormally high rates of cancer and other ills. But with help from Janice Dickerson, of the New Orleans-based Gulf Coast Tenants Organization, they are no longer suffering in silence...
Since the early 1970s, Dickerson, 38, has visited bungalows and trailer camps, tank farms and railroad sidings trying to alert cancer alley's destitute inhabitants about the dangers of the area they live in. "Chemicals aren't racist or prejudiced," she tells her listeners. "Eventually they will move into your community. To fight industry, all you've got to do is get organized...
...Dickerson is no stranger to the blighted area. She grew up in Reveilletown, a farming community that abutted a chemical plant until it was relocated in 1988 as the result of a class action she instigated. A former captain in the corrections department, Dickerson began working full time for Gulf Coast in January and helped organize this week's Second Great Louisiana March Against Poisons. "All we want," she says, "is for the air and water to get cleaner so that it doesn't pose a danger...
Holy Cross responded with a 16-0 run of its ownover the next three minutes behind Dickerson andfreshman Bill Walker, who tallied 11 points on5-for-6 shooting. Mitchell's 10 points at the endof the first half and the beginning of the secondclosed...
...started to push the ball up the court, look for the open man, and get the openshot," said Crusader sophomore Leon Dickerson, wholed the Holy Cross attack with 19 points...