March 10, 2010
The veil of authority and legitimacy shielding most urban police forces against popular suspicion and distrust simply doesn’t exist in New Orleans. Hardly anyone likes or trusts the po-po. The actual point of this piece is to reflect a little on the war currently raging between the people of New Orleans and the NOPD.
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504 Boyz,
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Baton Rouge rapper Lil’ Boosie,
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Danziger Bridge,
Darwin Bond-Graham,
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Emmet Till affair,
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Henry Glover,
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Juvenile,
K. Gates,
Katrina’s aftermath,
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police treat all working class Black New Orleanians as “thugs”,
police-controlled drug trade,
post-Apartheid,
public housing,
resistance against police brutality and corruption,
Ronald Madison,
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St. Charles Avenue,
The Show,
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Uptown,
white elite,
white flight,
Young A,
“Free Lil’ Wayne” mixtapes
December 24, 2009
Historic Wesley United Methodist Church, the second oldest African American church in New Orleans, the eighth oldest in the United States and a symbol of the struggle for emancipation and human rights in the state of Louisiana, is in jeopardy. Unless those who are trying to save it acquire financial support soon, the church may be torn down due to hurricane damage and replaced with a parking lot.
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abolitionist movement to end slavery,
Ashley Gibson,
Common Ground Relief,
emancipation,
George Francis,
human rights,
New Orleans,
Rebuild Green,
Sakura Kone,
United Saints,
Wesley United Methodist Church
November 10, 2009
Because of charter schools grounded in the massive privatization movement that’s rapidly engulfing New Orleans “public” schools, we see the deliberate “disappearing” of Black music being taught in schools. One of the leaders of the movement to restore the New Orleans music education system, Derrick Tabb, has been nominated to win the CNN “Hero’s Award.”
November 1, 2009
In the U.S, the richest country in the world, Washington is coordinating the recovery effort. In Lebanon, a tiny poor and war-torn nation, Hezbollah, a grassroots resistance movement that Washington called “terrorist,” organizes most of the reconstruction. Hezbollah receives substantial aid in this effort from Syria and especially Iran, countries Washington also calls “terrorist.”
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Charity Hospital,
Dahia,
Hezbollah,
Hurricane Katrina,
Iran,
Joyce Chediac,
Lebanon,
New Orleans,
Paul Wilcox,
Syria,
the Center for Constitutional Rights,
the Israeli bombing,
Washington
More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, I am concerned about the availability and sufficiency of affordable housing in New Orleans, where rents have risen 52 percent since the storm and 41 percent of families pay more than 50 percent of their income in rent. More than 35,000 families recently applied for 3,500 Section 8 vouchers, indicating the overwhelming demand for affordable housing.
October 3, 2009
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign welcomes President Barack Obama’s decision to create a federal working group to examine our nation’s long-term recovery policies in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and to extend the mandate of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Recovery.
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Congress,
Councilmember Bill Stallworth,
Department of Homeland Security,
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Gulf Coast recovery,
HR 2269,
Hurricanes Katrina,
Monika Kalra Varma,
poverty,
President Barack Obama,
Sharon Gauthe,
the Army Corps of Engineers,
the Biloxi City Council,
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign,
the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Recovery,
the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights
September 29, 2009
Four years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, survivors living in Houston are still fighting to keep a roof over their heads. Three women spoke recently at a news conference at the Kensington Club II townhome apartments to expose the owner’s corruption and the squalid living conditions he allows.
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Disaster Housing Assistance Program vouchers,
Eugenia Brown,
eviction orders,
FEMA,
Houston,
Hurricane Katrina,
Jennifer Whittington,
Kofi Taharka,
Lenwood Johnson,
New Orleans,
Quinna Brown,
the Disaster Housing Assistance Program,
the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
the Freedmen’s Neighborhood Association,
the International Action Center,
the Kensington Club II townhome apartments,
the National Black United Front,
the secretary of Housing and Urban Development,
the U.S. Justice Department
September 15, 2009
Rebuilding efforts in St. Bernard Parish, a small community just outside New Orleans, have recently gotten a major boost. One nonprofit focused on rebuilding in the area has received the endorsement of CNN, Alice Walker the touring production of the play “The Color Purple” and even President Obama. But an alliance of Gulf Coast and national organizations are now raising questions about the cause these high profile names are supporting.
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African Americans,
Al Jazeera,
Alice Walker,
Black families,
CNN,
Democracy Now,
FEMA trailers,
GritTV,
Jordan Flaherty,
Judge Leander Perez,
Lance Hill,
Liz McCartney,
Lynn Dean,
MayDay NOLA,
Moving Forward Gulf Coast,
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative,
New Orleans,
Oprah Winfrey,
President Obama,
racial discrimination,
Salvation Army,
St. Bernard Parish,
TeleSur,
the 1968 Fair Housing Act,
the Fair Housing Act,
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center,
the Greater New Orleans Foundation,
the New Orleans Times-Picayune,
the Southern Institute for Education and Research,
Tulane University,
U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan,
United Way,
Zack Rosenburg,
“The Color Purple”,
“The St. Bernard Project
September 3, 2009
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., wrapped up two days of hearings by the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, which she chairs, by focusing on the status and availability of affordable, quality public housing due to the near total demolition of the “Big Four” public housing developments in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. After the hearing, Congresswoman Waters, panelists and other guests participated in a bus tour of the Big Four sites – B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, Lafitte and St. Bernard – and visited the future site of a new public housing development in Iberville, which may be the next development to be demolished and redeveloped.
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African Americans,
B.W. Cooper,
C.J. Peete,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
developers,
Dillard University,
Hurricane Katrina,
Lafitte,
Louisiana,
New Orleans,
nonprofit community and advocacy organizations,
residents,
smaller mixed-income development,
St. Bernard,
state recovery authorities,
the federal government,
the Louisiana Road Home Program,
the NAACP,
universities,
Washington D.C.,
“Implementation of the Road Home Program Four Years after Hurricane Katrina”
ask the question, “Did we cause the hurricane?” There is no one that can answer, yet there are those that state to me and my family – all Katrina survivors – “It has been four years. Everyone should have put that behind them and moved on.”
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DHAP (HUD’s Disaster Housing Assistance Program),
During and the Aftermath”,
Eugenia Michelle Brown,
homecare,
Hurricane Katrina,
Kensington Club,
New Orleans,
New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina,
Texas,
The Harris County Constable,
“Hurricane Katrina: Before
August 31, 2009
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina took the lives of more than 1,836 people, displaced more than 1 million residents, and damaged more than 200,000 Gulf Coast homes in a 90,000 square mile area. The damage caused by the flooding, storm surge and high winds destroyed schools, hospitals, roads, community centers, bridges, parks and forestlands. In the end, the Gulf Coast suffered more than $100 billion in damage, making Katrina the costliest and most deadly hurricane in the history of the United States.
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000 civic works jobs for Gulf Coast,
100,
and the California and Missouri Democratic Parties,
bridges,
Cindy Chavez,
ColorOfChange.org,
community centers,
Congressmember Zoe Lofgren,
forestlands,
Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign,
hospitals,
HR 2269,
Hurricane Katrina,
James Rucker,
Jethroe Moore,
living wage work,
NAACP,
NAACP Silicon Valley/San Jose,
parks,
poverty,
Rep. George Miller,
roads,
schools,
Scott Myers-Lipton,
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
the Bayou Parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne,
the Education and Labor Committee,
the GCCW Act,
The GCCW Project,
the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act,
the Louisiana Republican Party,
the New Orleans City Council,
toxic government issued trailers
August 17, 2009
This month marks four years since Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The world saw who was left behind when Katrina hit. The same people have been left behind in the “rebuilding.” In the rebuilding, those with money have done OK. Those without have not. It is the American way. Here is a statistical snapshot illustrating some of the legacy of Katrina and the U.S. response.
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Army Corps of Engineers,
Bill Quigley,
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program,
child care facilities,
David Hammer,
Davida Finger,
emergency food programs,
Emilie Bahr,
FEMA trailers formaldehyde problems,
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center,
Hurricane Katrina,
ICF International,
Katrina cottages,
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal,
Louisiana Health Care Stimulus Funds,
Louisiana homeowners,
Louisiana unemployment compensation funds,
Louisiana Workforce Commission,
Medicaid recipients,
Michelle Millhollon,
New Orleanians displaced by proposed new hospital complex,
New Orleans,
New Orleans Census Population Estimates 2000-2008,
New Orleans Medicaid,
New Orleans mental health problems,
New Orleans murders,
New Orleans public charter schools,
New Orleans public housing,
New Orleans public school population,
New Orleans public schools,
New Orleans rebuilding,
New Orleans renters,
New Orleans St. Bernard public housing,
New Orleans suicides,
New Orleans vacant residences,
Programmatic Environmental Assessment,
Road Home Community Development Block Grant,
Road Home Program,
The New Orleans Index: Tracking the Recovery of New Orleans and the Metro Area
July 30, 2009
A group of advisors who will report to the director of the U.N. Habitat agency held a town hall meeting in New Orleans on Sunday, July 26, to hear from resident experts and other community members about housing rights violations along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.
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Advocates for Environmental and Human Rights,
Africa and the World,
Asia,
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Barney Frank,
Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital,
Darwin Bond-Graham,
Europe,
Gulf Coast,
HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans),
HUD chief Alphonso Jackson,
human rights violations,
Hurricane Katrina,
Kali Akuno of the U.S. Human Rights Network,
Latin America,
Louisiana Justice Institute,
LSU-VA hospital complex,
May Day New Orleans,
New Orleans,
Reps. Maxine Waters,
Sam Jackson of May Day New Orleans,
Stephanie Mingo,
Survivor’s Village,
The Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE),
the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative,
the Obama administration,
the Section 8 program,
the U.N. Habitat agency
July 5, 2009
Four years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast region, there are still numerous unmet needs and challenges facing the residents of that area every day. Especially hard hit by the hurricanes were low-income and racial and ethnic minority Americans, and they continue to suffer disproportionately.
June 15, 2009
The United Nations report, submitted by Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia Doudou Diene, presents an overview of the United States’ compliance with international norms governing racial equality. It sets out several areas where the U.S. has failed to protect its citizens from racially discriminatory practices.
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ACORN,
Action Communication and Education Reform,
Advancement Project,
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights,
Alabama Arise and Federation of Southern Cooperatives,
Biloxi,
Biloxi Branch NAACP,
Dando la Mano,
Doudou Diène,
Gulf Coast Civic Works Project,
Gustav,
Hope CDA,
HR 2269,
Ike,
Inc.,
Katrina,
Katrina victims,
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,
Louisiana Justice Institute,
Mississippi,
Mississippi ACLU,
Mississippi Center for Justice,
Mississippi Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities,
Mississippi Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force,
Mississippi LIFE,
MPOWER,
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund,
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development,
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative,
National Low Income Housing Coalition,
Oxfam America,
President Obama,
Rita,
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights,
South Bay Communities Alliance and U.S. Human Rights Network,
STEPS Coalition,
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's tax-credit exchange program,
the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act,
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
the United Nations Human Rights Council,
the United States
June 10, 2009
The move by FEMA to enforce the June 1 eviction date for Gulf Region residents who live in temporary trailers not only lacks basic compassion but is also a derogation of the government’s responsibilities to uphold fundamental human rights.
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Advancement Project,
Afghanistan,
Ajamu Baraka,
Atlanta,
Bush administration,
Congress,
displaced Americans,
Earnest Hammond,
eviction,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
FEMA,
FEMA trailers,
FEMA's plan to evict thousands of survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
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Gulf Region residents,
housing vouchers,
human rights policy,
Hurricane Katrina,
President George W. Bush,
renters and homeowners,
resident Obama,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Stafford Act,
temporary and permanent homes,
the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
the New York Times,
the Obama administration,
the United Nations' Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,
the White House,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
US Human Rights Network
June 8, 2009
HR 2269, which is co-sponsored by 16 Congress members and supported by 165 regional and national organizations, funds “green” resident-led recovery projects to help meet the overwhelming unmet needs of the individuals, families and communities devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
June 4, 2009
WBOK has come back strong from the severe damage inflicted on its studio, offices, transmitter site and broadcast tower by the flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now broadcasting over a powerful signal, the station adopted a Black talk format – “Real Talk for Real Times” – on Nov. 1, 2007, after it was purchased and upgraded by Danny Bakewell Sr. on behalf of the Bakewell family.
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"Real Talk for Real Times",
affirmative action,
African-American,
Bakewell Co.,
Black media,
Black newspaper,
Black talk format,
California,
Danny Bakewell Sr.,
Hurricane Katrina,
Los Angeles,
Los Angeles Sentinel,
National Newspaper Publishers' Association,
New Orleans,
Pasadena,
Proposition 209,
self-determination,
the Black Press of America,
the Brotherhood Crusade,
Three Strikes law,
WBOK,
www.wbok1230am.com
“Malcolm X would love to make mixtapes, have those out on the streets. The same reasons they boycotted and had protests in that era are our reasons too. We’re coming from that same mindset, but we’re using new tools, trying to get our inheritance.”
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"New Orleans for Sale",
2-Cent,
Al Jazeera,
Black media makers,
Black-owned talk radio station,
Brandan "B-Mike" Odums,
Clarin (in Argentina),
Democracy Now,
Gil Scott Heron,
Huey Newton,
Hurricane Katrina,
Jena,
Jordan Flaherty,
Kevin Griffin,
Lionsgate Entertainment,
Louisiana,
Lower 9th Ward,
Manda B,
Mannie Fresh,
MTV Networks,
NAACP Image Award,
New America Media,
New Orleans,
neworleans@leftturn.or,
Nik Richard,
People's Hurricane Relief Fund,
Public Access TV,
Tallulah,
TeleSur,
The University of New Orlean,
Tom Brokaw,
tourism,
USA Today,
WBOK,
Youth Studies Center
May 19, 2009
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina are finally getting their day in court. In a trial lasting most of a month that went to the judge Thursday, May 14, in New Orleans, a group of residents is holding the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for the flooding that occurred in the wake of Katrina.
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Army Corps of Engineers,
Brenda Ryan,
Courthouse News Service,
environmental damage,
genocidal actions of the government,
Hurricane Katrina,
Joseph Bruno,
Katrina survivors,
Katrina's Hidden Race War,
levees,
Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO),
New Orleans,
New Orleans Times-Picayune,
racist neglect,
Sabrina Canfield,
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr.,
vigilantes and cops
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