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Pelican Coast is a new tie line that offers hand-made, 100% silk ties lovingly designed by a fifth generation family in New Orleans that wishes to help restore, revitalize, and create awareness for our disappearing wetlands in Louisiana and all along America’s precious coastline. Each tie in this flagship Coastal Collection depicts an image of the unique culture here in coastal Louisiana and the great Gulf South.

Pelican Coast has designed each tie in the Coastal Collection in a fun, yet conservative, coastal motif, tailor-made with the interests of saving America’s wetlands in mind. Therefore, and most importantly, 20% of all proceeds Pelican Coast Neckwear receives from the sale of each tie will be donated directly to this highly effective and nationally acclaimed America’s WETLAND Foundation.

In our first year, Pelican Coast Neckwear has proudly raised and donated $20,000.00 to America’s WETLAND Foundation to date. With your support, we look forward to donating much more in the remainder of 2008 and beyond!

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WHERE TO BUY

Available at These Fine Clothing and Gift Retailers:

* Perlis Clothing Store, Uptown New Orleans LA

* Rubensteins, Downtown New Orleans LA

* Oak Hall, Memphis TN

* M. Dumas & Sons, Charleston SC

* East Bay Clothiers, Fairhope AL

* S. F. Alman, Ltd., Gulfport MS

* TABASCO Country Store & Website, Avery Island LA

* McLavy’s, Baton Rouge LA

* Beecroft & Bull, Charlottesville VA

* Beecroft & Bull, Newport News VA

* Neilson’s, Oxford MS

* Judy at the Rink, Uptown New Orleans LA

* Highland Hiker, Cashiers NC

* Highland Hiker, Highlands NC

* Palm Patch, Uptown New Orleans LA

* Palm Patch, Metairie LA

* The Cloister Gift Shop, St. Simons Island GA

* Tonya Incorporated, Franklin LA

* Cal-A-Vie Spa Boutique, Vista CA

* Coplon’s, Columbia SC

* National Mississippi River Museum, Dubuque IA

* Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans LA

* Contemporary Art Center, NOLA
OUR FAVORITES ARE THE MINT JULEP AND THE OYSTER TIES///
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — On Friday nights, day laborers form two lines at a bustling liquor store in the French Quarter: one is to dutifully wire money to their homelands, the other is to buy $2.17 beers that medicate their lives in New Orleans.

“Life is hard here, harder than any place I’ve been in the U.S.,” said Jose Campos, 37, who came here from El Salvador, by way of Florida. He pedaled his bicycle to Unique Grocery, a cavernous establishment off Bourbon Street that offers the wire service through bulletproof glass and tall-boy beers from icy bins.

“It’s a dangerous place, a bad place,” he said. “But when you can find work, it’s all worth it.”

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Dec. 24, 2008 Racist Vigilantism is Documented in New Orleans From Staff & Wire Services

A shocking exposé detailing how White vigilantes hunted Black people “like pheasants” in New Orleans during the floods of Hurricane Katrina is reopening old wounds about the racism that surrounded the whole ordeal.

In his jolting report for the Jan. 5 edition of the Nation magazine, writer A.C. Thompson focuses on lynch-mob justice perpetrated by residents of the largely White community of Algiers Point, which is surrounded by predominantly Black Algiers.

Amid all the national – often exaggerated – reports of roving bands of Black thugs.

Thompson discovers during his year-and-a-half investigation that the real thugs were White vigilantes who randomly shot Black men, killing 11, but escaped arrest, prosecution or any real exposure for their violent misdeeds.

During Thompson’s report, an unidentified White man was asked how he protected his community.

“You had to do what you had to do. You know? If you had to shoot somebody, you had to shoot somebody. That simple,” he said, proudly. Said another White man, “ It was great!” as a third chimed in,  “It was like pheasant season in South Dakota! If it moved, you shot it!”

Donnell Herrington, a Black man who was shot by the vigilantes but survived, said he would like to see his attackers brought to justice. Speaking to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now, Herrington, who saga is included in the Nation article, said, “You know, this is the kind of thing that many, many people can investigate: the local DA, the local police, the state attorney general, the federal authorities. If the public demands that the authorities actually take a look at this, it may well happen. But it’s going to take the public pushing the authorities to do something.”

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