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By bizarrely going after Sam Harris, Majid Nawaaz, and others, the once venerable organization has abandoned its core mission, focusing instead on dirty partisan politics Shortly after the election of Donald Trump in November of 2016, a lot of people I knew wrote biggish checks to the Southern Poverty Law Center. They weren’t alone: According to tax filings, the group took in $136 million last year alone, bringing its total assets to a whopping half-a-billion dollars.This surge in the organization’s popularity makes sense: The SPLC, after all, is the group that had once, nearly four decades ago, protected Vietnamese shrimpers...

Most of Bayou's shrimp boats remain beached Saturday, December 17, 2005 By RUSS HENDERSON Staff Reporter While shrimp boats lie stranded on the shores of Bayou La Batre three months after Hurricane Katrina, federal officials plan to remove more than 300 recreational boats beached in the Florida Keys by hurricanes this year. After lengthy discussions among local, state and federal officials, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still refuses to remove most of the 31 shrimp boats beached in the Bayou by Katrina because, they say, the vessels present no threat to public health or safety. FEMA plans to remove about...

For Coast shrimpers, end of a livelihood: A heritage, Southern culture may be lost with the battering from Katrina By Matt Apuzzo/ September 16, 2005 BILOXI -- Hanh Luong has no home and no cash. The only thing he has left, and his only hope for the future, is the Santa Maria, a battered 98-foot fishing boat he worked years to buy. But two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, his boat remains tethered to what's left of Biloxi's piers. The polluted Gulf of Mexico is off-limits to shrimping, and all the major processing plants between Alabama and Louisiana have been pulverized...

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (ABP)—In Forrest Gump, the hero scores an economic coup when his boat is the only one in the Bayou La Batre, Ala., shrimping fleet to survive a hurricane. Sadly, for the real-life Bayou La Batre, Forrest Gump was fiction. This blue-collar hamlet south of Mobile, where Mobile Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico, may be the place in Alabama hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina, at least economically. The destruction is not nearly as dramatic as in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast. But it may have crippled the entire town’s way of life, which is...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Monday upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from Brazil, Ecuador, India and Thailand. The move won praise from U.S. shrimp producers but drew criticism from importers, who said the penalty tariffs would drive up food costs for consumers. The Commerce Department ruling affirmed with slight modifications a preliminary ruling reached in late July that the four countries were selling shrimp in the United States at unfairly low prices, a practice known as dumping. The department imposed antidumping tariffs on shrimp imported from the four countries ranging from 9.69 percent to 67.8...

Welcomed news from the U.S. Commerce Department Tuesday. For those who may have missed it, the Bush administration announced proposed tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam. This comes after finding that companies were dumping shrimp into the United States at artificially low prices. While we are usually cautious to call for such trade actions, Tuesday’s announcement by the Commerce Department is actually long overdue. Free trade is a good thing, when all sides play fair. Chinese and Vietnamese companies are not doing that. That is why we think the actions of the Bush administration, albeit we are sure...

On a busy Thursday afternoon, people stood in line to buy shrimp at Rose's Seafood, a no-frills market on a little waterfront street in Kemah. What wasn't as obvious is that roughly half the shrimp spread out before them in big, wet piles were imported — although the market is located a stone's throw from where shrimp boats dock. Shrimp producers from countries like China and Vietnam,plus four others, are facing the distinct possibility of paying substantial duties as the result of an anti-dumping petition working its way through Washington. The first indications of how big the duties will be...

<p>Move over, Bubba Gump. The first shrimp farm in the state is coming to Hamilton.</p> <p>A former Army officer who won startup money for his venture in a business contest plans to begin raising shrimp in saltwater-filled tanks as early as this fall.</p>

Washington, DC: Congressman Ron Paul recently joined several of his House colleagues urging action by the Commerce Department to protect the troubled domestic shrimp industry. Paul and other members of Congress, who represent thousands of shrimpers in Texas and Louisiana, sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Donald Evans and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick demanding an investigation into taxpayer subsidies that benefit foreign shrimpers at the expense of our domestic industry. The 14th congressional district is home to many shrimpers, from Galveston to Aransas counties. Since 2000, shrimp imports from targeted countries have increased a whopping 72%, while prices have...

US Shrimp Fishermen Seek Tariffs on Thailand, China, Vietnam, India, Ecuador, Brazil VOA News 31 Dec 2003, 20:17 UTC U.S. shrimp fishermen are asking Washington to impose tariffs on shrimp imports from Thailand, China, Vietnam, India, Ecuador, and Brazil. In petitions to the U.S. Commerce Department Wednesday, fishermen's groups accused those nations of selling shrimp in the United States at unfairly low prices. Members of the U.S. shrimp industry say their business has been devastated by foreign competition much of which is farmed shrimp. The American Seafood Distributors' Association says new tariffs would hurt U.S. consumers and are a bad...

A coalition of U.S. shrimp farmers filed a trade complaint seeking to curb $2.4 billion of annual shrimp imports from Thailand, China, Brazil, Vietnam, India and Ecuador. In a filing with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission, the Southern Shrimp Alliance asked for tariffs of as much as 267 percent on frozen and canned shrimp from the six countries, which account for three-quarters of shrimp imports. U.S. producers say wholesale shrimp prices have fallen by more than 26 percent since 2000 because of a flood of imports. The case alleges that the foreign producers are illegally dumping their...

<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Wearing baseball caps and T-shirts emblazoned with "Save the commercial fishermen," Louisiana shrimpers joined black-clad protesters on Saturday in a march against a free-trade agreement between the United States and five Central American nations.</p> <p>"Never did I think that I would go this far," said Timothy Danos, a fourth-generation shrimper from Lafitte, carrying a banner as he strode down North Rampart Street on the edge of the French Quarter.</p>