
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference, featuring Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Louisiana's own Governor Bobby Jindal, came to New Orleans this weekend and was met by at least 300 protesters in the street.
The local focus of the protest: stop cutting education and social services, like health care, first when balancing Louisiana's budget.
[PHOTO: UNO Professors Rachel Luft and Steve Striffler in Lafayette Square on Friday]
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