Naomi Klein, author of the upcoming book "The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism," gave an inspiring talk at the Loyola Law Center as New Orleans heads into the second anniversary of the Federal Flood. Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola and human rights activist, gives a short introduction More...

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In front of Red Cross offices in both Houston and New Orleans, picket lines were formed by survivors of the federal flood during Hurricane Katrina. They demonstrated to emphasize the necessity and speediness with which the local Red Cross agencies should disperse the remaining donations earmarked for Katrina relief. More...

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In a small still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a white judge in a trial of a fight at the local high school where a white student who had been making racial taunts was hit by black students. The fight was the culmination of a series of racial incidents starting when whites responded to black students sitting under the "white tree" at their school by hanging three nooses from the tree.

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Three-plus buses of New Orleanians and supporters arrived in Atlanta for the first-ever US Social Forum, June 27 through July 1. Many hope the forum will be an important step in dispelling myths about reconstruction in the Gulf Coast and building reliable networks of support with organization throughout the country.

Crescent City Peace Alliance, in conjunction with Students at the Center, gather for the Third Annual Homer Plessy Celebration Day to remember the start of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans over a century ago.

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