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Kate Daniels and Jessica Mosby discuss the continuing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil rig explosion on April 20th. The show’s special guest this week is Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones magazine. Mac joins us from Grand Isle, Louisiana where she is investigating the worsening situation. Mac reports that the oil fumes are nauseating and raising concerns about public health. In addition, the potential economic impact may prove devastating to a region dependent on tourism as long as beaches are closed and restaurants remain empty.

Guest Biography: Mac McClelland is an expert on human rights, refugee populations, and Burma. McClelland is on staff at Mother Jones as their human rights reporter, with other work published The Nation, GQ The Daily Beast, The National Post, the Anderson Cooper 360 blog, Orion, AlterNet, as well as various literary journals and anthologies. She is author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War.

About the Broadcast: The WIP’s Executive Editor, Kate Daniels teams up with identical twin sister Ali Daniels to present Sundays at Five, a weekly radio broadcast on KRXA, Monterey Bay's Progressive Talk Radio station. The twins share stories and discuss topics ranging from campaign finance reform to the phenomenon of Facebook. Tune in every Sunday from 5-6 pm PDT or listen online. Podcasts of previous broadcasts are available on The WIP Talk.

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