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Ask Barney Frank to Let New Orleans Public Housing Residents Speak THIS TUESDAY (2/6)
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 [...]
Money for Meals for Public Housing Residents Going to DC!
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: [...]
Declaration of Robert R. Elliott on New Orleans Public Housing
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 [...]
Human Rights at Orleans Parish Prison
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 [...]
Ethnic Cleansing of New Orleans Emboldens Old School Racists
The NAACP is calling on the Department of Justice to take the necessary steps to protect African American mayors in Louisiana and to fully investigate a number of recent violent incidents and threats. Westlake Mayor-elect Gerald Washington’s body was found by authorities Dec. 30 near his pickup truck at the old Mossville High School west [...]
MLK Day: St. Bernard Residents Go through Fence, Clean Out Apartments
SURVIVORS VILLAGE Media contact: Endesha Juakali / survivorsvillage at gmail dot com / 504.239.2907 or 504.284.6975 Stephanie Mingo / vmingo at bellsouth dot net / 504.529.3171 January 15, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PHOTO OPPORTUNITY New Orleans, LA (January 15, 2007) – With mops and buckets in hand, displaced residents of the St. Bernard Public [...]
New in the Sidebar
Now that I’ve got the blog going on Gulf Coast Fair Housing Network, I’ve added the RSS feed to the sidebar. You should see it there right at the top. It displays links to the three most recent posts. For more info on GCFHN, see my earlier Hungry Blues post, or just go straight to [...]
Gulf Coast Fair Housing Network
When I read Bill Quigley’s article about HUD’s approval of plans to demolish thousands of livable public housing apartments in New Orleans, one sentence in particular jumped out at me: Representatives Barney Frank and Maxine Waters chair the committee and subcommittee with oversight of HUD. Being from Massachusetts, it struck me that Massachusetts residents represented [...]
HUD + FEMA $ = Enforced Homelessness
“We just want to go home,” Ms. Williams said. “People knew us in our neighborhood. They never messed with us. I could leave my back door open when I went to the grocery. People don’t understand that was our home. We want to go home.” Take Bill Quigley’s fact sheet on the New Orleans affordable [...]
Save NOLA Affordable Housing Fact Sheet
The following fact sheet came via an email from Bill Quigley. It has also been posted on justiceforneworleans.org, a website maintained by the Loyola University of New Orleans Law Clinic, which Quigley directs. New Orleans is in the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War. The US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) [...]
This is My Home: The Fight for Public Housing in New Orleans
See justiceforneworleans.org for more on this fight.
Free Herman Wallace — of the Angola 3
Who are the Angola 3? Here’s a brief overview: The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Known as “The Farm,” the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the largest prison in the United States. Around three-quarters of its inmates are African-American. According to the Academy-Award-nominated documentary The Farm, 85 percent of the inmates who are sent [...]
American Woman
Black students ordered to give up seats to whites August 24, 2006 COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children. . . . [Superintendent Kay] Easley would not comment much [...]
My First Academic Citation
I just discovered that in her recent publication in the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy Melanie Campbell cited my article on voting rights for New Orleans evacuees. Benjamin Greenberg reported in his In These Times article on 17 November 2005, that there are roughly 219,000 New Orleans evacuees who are voting age [over [...]
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