New Orleans At the Fair Grinds Coffeehouse book launch for The Battle for the Ninth Ward, we asked a number of activists gathered on the second floor to share their perspectives and experiences. It was a rich and sometimes painful reminder of how much Katrina is still a daily experience in New Orleans six years [...]
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New aOrleans Few do not know that New Orleans schools are “ground zero” in the so-called “reform” movement to privatize public school systems with charter schools. With the excuse of Hurricane Katrina the State of Louisiana, which had never run a school (never, ever!) in a wink-and-nod deal took a $20 million federal carrot [...] New Orleans After Katrina a group of us who were community organizers with ACORN in New Orleans were given tickets to go to Japan to see what lessons had been learned from the Kobe earthquake a little more than 10 years before Katrina in 1995 and their recovery as well as precautions Tokyo [...] March 8, 2011 In the Bywater – New Orleans Cheyenne, my old, arthritic Australian cattle dog, needed walking so we jumped out on the street early in a light, warm drizzle hoping to beat the crowds moving towards parades in a couple of hours. No such luck. Within a block from [...] Bywater's McCarthy Square Arch New Orleans Having been on extended home-leave of almost a month before I hit the road again soon for Toronto, New York City, and DC, it’s been interesting taking the new measure of my neighborhood in New Orleans. Bywater has morphed from what the New York Times called a “working [...] Orange Beach It’s hard to beat the white sands and rolling dunes of the “Redneck Riveria” in southern Alabama. It’s Alabama, but once you cross the bridge at the Pass to the East you are only 2 or 3 miles from the small sign that says “Florida” at the western tip of the Panhandle. [...] New Orleans My darling and brilliant niece’s husband, an Australian bloke who we dearly love, was working this summer running a high end, specialty bar at the W Hotel on Poydras Avenue in New Orleans during the time of the terrible British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill. My daughter, Dine,’ now a mainstay of the [...] New Orleans Shaun Donovan at HUD is clearly having problems getting his arms around the fact that America is not New York, the evidence starting with the horrible failure of the mortgage modification program or rather the lack of a mortgage modification program. Now throwing more words at the housing crises this weekend in pronouncements [...] |
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