Saket Soni and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice have beaten the drum in the more than four years since Hurricane Katrina about the abuses to south Asian guest workers pulled into the shipyards during the desperate labor supplies after the storm. Lawsuits against Signal International now coming to light reveal clearly the …
Category: Rebuild New Orleans
Domestic Recycling Disputes
New Orleans Ok, I’m thinking about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and the 10,000 person march in Phoenix on Saturday that is so much in that tradition yet has been silently buried in the press, and suddenly I stumble on an article about domestic disputes that are straining relationships around the issue …
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury – It’s Katrina Time
New Orleans Judge Terry Alacorn of Section L, Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, told all of us in the jury pool that participating in citizen service as a juror was second only to military service in making the country work. Maybe? Definitely there were many in the pool with me who felt …