"when the Bush Administration relaxed federal protection of the endangered fish, Sheehan's catch became contaminated with mercury"
"contaminated water laced with slicks of petroleum from a recently deregulated, poorly fortified refinery ignited, causing third-degree burns among the workers"
"medical kit denied him by recent budget cuts"
"we had no way of getting to high ground without our utility truck, which was requisitioned by the Defense Department last month for use in Iraq"
"Sheehan moved to New Orleans in 2004 to take a year off from the University of California at Berkeley, where administrators had temporarily suspended the stem-cell research program in which he was enrolled"
"as he delivered meals to elderly New Orleans residents affected by recent Medicare cuts"
"He made that vow back in 1998, when his best friend, a developmentally disabled black juvenile, was put to death in Texas for a crime he didn't commit."
