The week before I was going to head to New Orleans for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference one of my twitter friends who was also going to NTC pointed to Eboo Patel’s Washington Post blog post about post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans.
Patel catalogs the devastation pretty well:
My friend Alycia drove me through the lower 9th […]
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Great clip from yesterday’s State of the Black Union footage in NOLA (via Baratunde):
If you know some of my other work, you’ll know why I love Gregory’s quote from way back:
“If these Mississippi white Klansmen, who do not know how to plan crimes, who are ignorant, illiterate bastards, can completely baffle our FBI, what are […]
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
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Tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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The AP reports:
The FBI is examining the ties between Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by Jackson’s department as a construction manager in New Orleans, three federal law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Jackson’s friend got the job after the HUD secretary asked a staff member to pass along his name to […]
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Facing South reports on the latest development in Mississippi’s road to non-recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
A Mississippi agency wants to divert $600 million in federal funds from a housing program created to help low-income homeowners who suffered losses in Hurricane Katrina and use it to spruce up the State Port at Gulfport, the Associated Press reports.
The […]
Sunday, September 9, 2007
I became aware of Naomi Klein’s work in the first month after Hurricane Katrina, when she had made a remarkable discovery about New Orleans: in neighborhoods that had been declared habitable by Mayor Nagin there were 23, 267 uninhabited apartments that could be rented to evacuees. I said then:
If each unit houses three people, that’s […]
Cypress swamps are clear-cut and entire trees are ground up to make cypress garden mulch. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s are driving destruction of the Gulf’s best natural storm protection by selling cypress mulch all over the country. It’s time they stopped.
Get more info and ideas for activism at the Gulf Restoration Network.
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Commentary by Lance Hill
April 26, 2007
There is a long overdo discussion beginning in New Orleans on how to address race and class issues and bridge the growing racial divide in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For many months there was little recognition in the mainstream media that displaced African Americans felt locked out of their […]
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Thank you to all who called Barney Frank to ask him to allow New Orleans Public Housing residents to speak at today’s meeting of the House Committee on Financial Services.
And thank you to Barney Frank for recognizing the importance of including testimony from a resident at today’s hearings.
I received the following report from Anita Sinha, […]
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
You can watch the webcast by clicking here (requires Windows Media Player).
Go here for original link, if you have trouble with the one, above.
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ACTION ALERT
Without any input from New Orleans public housing residents, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has approved plans to demolish thousands of livable public housing apartments in New Orleans.
MA Residents Can Help Make New Orleans Public Housing Residents Heard
Please call Representative Barney Frank today and ask him to guarantee two slots […]
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I received this email from Bill Quigley today. Bill Quigley is one of the lawyers for the public housing residents in New Orleans who have brought a class action suit against HANO and HUD to stop the planned demolitions of their homes. Please consider helping out.
From: bill quigley <duprestars at yahoo dot com>
Date: Jan […]
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Bill Quigley, attorney for New Orleans public housing residents who are bringing a class action suit against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Housing Authorit of New Orleans (HANO), reports (via email):
Residents in the class action against HANO and HUD are fighting back. Earlier this week, HANO sued 10 residents […]
In the months immediately following Hurricane Katrina, when I first started blogging about Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) and the criminal justice system in New Orleans, I was overwhelmed by the some of the comments I received from people who had survived OPP or from people who were desperately trying to locate their friends and loved […]
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