What People Are Saying About Floodlines:
As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans, Jordan Flaherty began to write, rescuing precious truths about the reality of racism and solidarity in his city that risked being washed away in the tide of formulaic corporate journalism. I can think of no journalist that writes with deeper knowledge or more love about this highly contested part of the United States. With a new flood threatening life on the Gulf Coast – this time made of oil, not water, but powered, as always, by greed and neglect – these remarkable stories of injustice and resistance must be heard. -- Naomi Klein, author ...
Check out Floodlines on the Community and Resistance Tour
For more information on the tour, including tour dates and schedule and how to bring the tour to your city, please seehttp://communityandresistance.wordpress.com FALL 2010: THE COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE TOUR The COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena to women organizing inside prisons, from resistance to school privatization to post-Katrina community organizing and cultural resistance. The tour also seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media. This tour is for anyone interested in issues of health care, education, criminal ...
Organizations in the Struggle for Post-Katrina Justice
. Below is an incomplete list of organizations who have fought for post-Katrina justice. Websites are listed when applicable. . NEW ORLEANS AND LOUISIANA SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS . Advocates for Environmental Human Rights Works for the cause of environmental justice as a human right. www.ehumanrights.org A Fighting Chance /NOLA Investigates Investigations for the defense in capital cases. www.nolainvestigates.com African American Leadership Project Agenda building, policy analysis, strategic dialogue and consensus-building. www.aalp.org Agenda for Children Policy work for children’s rights. www.agendaforchildren.org American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana Legal struggles for civil rights. www.laaclu.org American Friends Service Committee of New Orleans Organizing against the cradle-to-prison pipeline and other campaigns. www.afsc.org/neworleans Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) New Orleans chapter of national housing ...
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What People Are Saying About Floodlines:
As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans, Jordan Flaherty began to write, rescuing precious truths about the reality of racism and solidarity in his city that risked being washed away in the tide of formulaic corporate journalism. I can think of no journalist that writes with deeper knowledge or more love about this highly contested part of the United States. With a new flood threatening life on the... [Read more]
Check out Floodlines on the Community and Resistance Tour
For more information on the tour, including tour dates and schedule and how to bring the tour to your city, please seehttp://communityandresistance.wordpress.com FALL 2010: THE COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE TOUR The COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena to women organizing inside... [Read more]
Organizations in the Struggle for Post-Katrina Justice
. Below is an incomplete list of organizations who have fought for post-Katrina justice. Websites are listed when applicable. . NEW ORLEANS AND LOUISIANA SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS . Advocates for Environmental Human Rights Works for the cause of environmental justice as a human right. www.ehumanrights.org A Fighting Chance /NOLA Investigates Investigations for the defense in capital cases. www.nolainvestigates.com African... [Read more]
