New Orleans The Japanese can’t catch a break. Hundreds of bodies are still washing up on the shore. Towns were the body counts are unknown and frightening because after days of work only one-fourth or one-third of the ground has been covered. But, the big headlines here are not about the week old tragedy but …
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If Not Japan, Then Nobody is Ready
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 had taken …
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 …