Gulf Coast Hospitality Workers Need to Sit on Oil Spill Santa’s Lap Now!

Financial Justice Louisiana Recovery Rebuild New Orleans

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 Local …

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Moving the Money: Kartina Plus Five

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Louisiana Recovery Personal Writings Rebuild New Orleans

New Orleans    These things all take time. I finally am bothering friends and family about how to make our fishing camp on the bayou abutting the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge a mile up from Lake Ponchartrain useable again without rebuilding. A pontoon and pulley operation rather than a bridge, decking with temporary structures or …

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