Gulf South Rising commemorated 5 years of the BP oil spill with a march through the French Quarter, eventually gathering near the River on April 20, 2015. Colette Pichon-Battle, of Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy said events were planned in 5 states. "Frontline communities are standing up to say it's time to tell the truth, it's time to pay up," she said of BP. "The seas are rising and so are we." She said she traveled to Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes that morning where fishermen said they have not been paid. The group ended their march at the river where 11 white roses were dropped into the river for each of the lives lost in the explosion.
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