“They hung with us”: Race and Community in a New Orleans Health Clinic
Region: LouisianaIn broken mirror pieces reads a sign, “Common Ground Health Clinic,” above the door where nearly forty patients a day visit this converted convenience store on an Algiers street within two blocks of the Mississ... more
Views: 1829Shut it Down! Human Rights Violations at New Orleans' Juvenile Detention Center
Region: LouisianaOn January 19, 2007, New Orleanians and several local organizations voiced their support of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of juvenile inmates awaiting trial and housed at Orleans Parish’s Youth Study Center.... more
Views: 3395Jena Bears Strange Fruit
Region: United StatesSouthern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swingi... more
Views: 2689Naomi Klein Speaks in New Orleans About Disaster Capitalism
Region: United StatesNEW ORLEANS, AUG. 25 -- Naomi Klein, the writer-activist best known for her book on corporate multinationals and global resistance in "No Logo," spoke in front of over one hundred people at Loyola Law Center. Klein a... more
Views: 1689Red Cross Funds Due to Katrina Survivors Withheld in "Insulting" Process
Region: LouisianaNEW ORLEANS, August 20--In front of Red Cross offices in both Houston and New Orleans, picket lines were formed by survivors of the federal flood during Hurricane Katrina. They demonstrated to emphasize the necessity and s... more
Views: 2045New Orleans Drums into US Social Forum
Region: GeorgiaATLANTA, GA--After a quick lunch, the New Orleans delegation of activists to the first-ever US Social Forum grouped at Atlanta's John Calhoun Park, on Piedmont and Auburn, where they got some energy flowing in the rising h... more
Views: 3773East of Tragedy
Region: LouisianaThe intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to t... more
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