Joad

A man who identified himself as 'Tom Joad,' an unemployed electrician living in D.C., said the protest was organized by a loose group of frustrated people around the region, although he wasn't one of the guys putting up the sign.

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So a lot of us want that Chamber of Commerce sign taken down,' said Joad, adding, 'This is about calling out the people who are part of the inside job that took the economy down three years ago.'

HUFFPOST HILL - That Crashing Sound You Hear Is Your Portfolio Eliot Nelson 2011

Cypress trees and other types of large, rooted vegetation are important to wetland structure and stability that goes for any type of soil, really - if we use unsustainable agricultural practices on dry topsoil, we end up unable to grow things, unable to hold soil in place ... combine it with severe drought and wind, the next thing you know, Tom Joad is taking his Okies to California to escape the Dust Bowl.

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Great literature is most often about extraordinary people, even when it purports to concern itself primarily with the "common man" (consider Tom Joad in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, for example).

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Cypress trees and other types of large, rooted vegetation are important to wetland structure and stability that goes for any type of soil, really - if we use unsustainable agricultural practices on dry topsoil, we end up unable to grow things, unable to hold soil in place ... combine it with severe drought and wind, the next thing you know, Tom Joad is taking his Okies to California to escape the Dust Bowl.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Oil Spill Anniversary: 7 Tips to Put Your Money Where Your South Is Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck's masterful tale of the poor Joad family's flight from dust bowl Oklahoma won a Pulitzer prize after it was published in 1939.

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Driving into New Orleans past the shacks, tents and cots where people literally live on the side of the road, the image harkened me back to Steinbeck's Joad family in his classic "The Grapes of Wrath."

Pat LaMarche: The Oil Spill Is Our Dust Bowl Pat LaMarche 2011

You'll feel as if you are in the middle of Joad town of the Grapes of Wrath, Year 2010.

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Driving into New Orleans past the shacks, tents and cots where people literally live on the side of the road, the image harkened me back to Steinbeck's Joad family in his classic "The Grapes of Wrath."

Pat LaMarche: The Oil Spill Is Our Dust Bowl Pat LaMarche 2011

"Tom Joad" was later covered by Rage Against the Machine, with Zack de la Rocha channeling an angrier Joad: "Shelter lines stretchin' around the corner/Welcome to the New World Order."

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