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Jordan Flaherty : Five Years After Katrina and Still Not Home
Image from Facing South.Displacement continues:New Orleans five years after Katrina More than 100,000 New Orleanians received a one-way ticket out of town and still have received no help in coming back, and these voices are left out of most stories … Continue reading
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Tagged Gulf Coast, Jordan Flaherty, Katrina, New Orleans, Racism
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NOLA’s Killer Cops : Danziger Bridge is Just the Beginning
Lance Madison is surrounded by State Police and NOPD SWAT members on Sept. 4, 2005, after violence erupted on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans. Madison was accused of shooting at police and was arrested, but he was later released. … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Jordan Flaherty, Katrina, New Orleans, official, Police Brutality
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Landrieu and the Saints : A New Day for New Orleans?
New Orleans mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu. Photo from AP.Who dat mayor:A new day for New Orleans? By Jordan Flaherty / The Rag Blog / February 9, 2010 NEW ORLEANS — In a city consumed by the Superbowl and Mardi Gras celebrations, … Continue reading
Larry Ray : Haiti’s Horror Hits Home
Disasters past and present:Haiti’s horror hits home By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2010 GULFPORT, Mississippi — Many of my fading memories of destruction, death and total loss have come back into sharp focus as I … Continue reading
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Tagged Earthquake, Gulf Coast, Haiti, Katrina, Larry Ray, Natural Disasters, New Orleans
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The Ongoing, All-American Katrina Debacle
Earnest Hammond, 70, with cans he collects to pay for repairs to his hurricane-damaged home. Photo: Lee Celano for The New York Times.Leaving the Trailers: Ready or Not, Katrina Victims Lose Temporary HousingBy Shaila Dewan / May 7, 2009 NEW … Continue reading
Brandon Darby : Austin Activist Outed as FBI Spy
Austin activist and admitted FBI informant Brandon Darby. Austin has its very own FBI spy. Recall that Scrub Bush took all the FBI agents off enforcing banking laws, and put them to work watching political groups here at home. — … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Common Ground, Convention, FBI, Informants, Katrina, Political Activists, Republican, Texas
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2008 : Bush Blew it on Katrina, But Where Were the Progressives?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Chalmette, La., Aug. 14, 2007. Pelosi and a congressional delegation of Democrats were visiting Hurricane Katrina ravaged areas. With her are House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-S.C. (right) and U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La. Photo … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Bush Presidency, Democratic Party, Katrina, Nancy Pelosi, New Orleans, Progressives
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Post-Katrina Vigilante Rampage : The Untold Story
Edna Glover holds a portrait of her son, whose remains were found behind a police station in New Orleans after Katrina. Photo by Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun / The Nation. ‘After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting … Continue reading
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Tagged History, Katrina, New Orleans, Racism, Social Action, Vigilante Justice
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‘Everyone at the Top Is Getting Fat Off Our Misery’
See “New Orleans, Three Years Later” by Jordan Flaherty and Katrina video with Richard Dreyfus, below. By Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / August 28, 2008 I was looking at my calendar; the ‘things to do’. I note on … Continue reading
And There Is No Government Shame for This
Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans Three Years LaterBy Bill Quigley / August 25, 2008 0. Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant — … Continue reading
FILM: Katrina’s Children : ‘If You’re Quiet Enough… You Hear Things’
Children of Katrina Still Bear the Scarsby Leonard Pitts, Jr. / August 24, 2008 You cannot watch Laura Belsey’s movie without ruminating upon the myriad ways we fail our young. There are many wrenching scenes in Katrina’s Children but arguably … Continue reading
Oil Drilling, the New ‘Clean’ Energy?
The New York Sun ran this idyllic graphic with its op-ed by Texas state Rep. Myra Crownover, who also owns a drilling company. Texas state Rep. Myra Crownover — who owns an oil drilling company — asserts that ‘oil drilling … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Environment, Katrina, McCain, Oil Companies, Oil Drilling, Texas, Texas Legislature
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