Table of Contents
Index:
SOME HISTORY OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE KATRINA
"THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"
- Voices of Survival and Solidarity During the Great Flood
- Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex
- Institutions: Where There is Oppression, There is Resistance
- Economy:
- Education:
- Elections
- Environment:
- Foundations
- Health:
- Housing:
- Media, Polls, Ideology, Culture:
- Prison Industrial Complex:
- Religion:
- One Year After the Great Flood
SOME EXAMPLES OF GRASSROOTS RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA
ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND TOOLS
- Perspectives and Tools (primarily for white activists)
- Solidarity Stories: mostly from the San Francisco Bayview (in progress)
SOME RESOURCES AND LINKS
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO BROWSE THE READER:
Some 'Two Years After Katrina' Reports and Analyses. August, 2007
Asian American Justice Center, HURRICANE KATRINA: MODELS RESPONSE IN ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. Summer, 2007.
(Email: Lcampbell [at] advancingequality [dot] org)
Color Lines, SECOND COMMEMORATION ISSUE includes Chaiti Sen, ‘Colorlines Gulf Coast Discussion Guide,’ and Robin Templeton, ‘Locked up in New Orleans.’ (reprinted from The Nation Magazine, Sept. 2007).
(http://www.colorlines.com/printerfriendly.php?ID=240)
Common Ground Health Clinic, RESOURCE GUIDE. (www.cghc.org)
Democracy Now: Special interviews with New Orleans grassroots organizers: August 30, 31 & Sept. 4 www.democracynow.org
(also available on transcript, video and DVD)
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, BLUEPRINT FOR GULF RENEWAL: THE KATRINA CRISIS AND A COMMUNITY AGENDA FOR ACTION. August, September, 2007. A Project of the Institute for Southern Studies/Southern Exposure. (www.southernstudies.org/gulfblueprint.pdf.)
Heads Up Collective, NOLA 2 YEARS DOWN. (Many resources and articles) (http://hupcollective.livejournal.com/17727.html)
Neighborhood Partnership Network, SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF KATRINA: COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS. August 27, 2007.
(email info [at] npnola [dot] com)
People’s Hurrican Relief Fund, PRELIMINARY REPORT FROM INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL: ‘INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ISSUES PRELIMINARY FINDINGS: BUSH, BLANCO, NAGIN COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. Sept. 10, 2007. (http://www.peopleshurricane.org)
(Also see www.internationaltribunal.org)
People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, INTERVIEW BY DAVEY D, ‘BREAKDOWN FM: FIGHTING FOR THE SOUL OF THE CITY: MEET NEW ORLEANS RAPPER SESS 4-5.’ (http://www.peopleshurricane.org)
Policy Link, HOPE NEEDS HELP: STORIES OF NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS REBUILDING THEIR CITY. CALL FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT. August, 2007.
(http://www.policylink.org/HopeNeedsHelp/HopeNeedsHelp.pdf.)
Policy Link, BRINGING LOUISIANA RENTERS HOME: AN EVALUATION OF THE 2006-2007 GULF OPPORTUNITY ZONE RENTAL HOUSING RESTORATION PROGRAM. June, 2007.
(http://www.policylink.org/documents/lhrc.pdf)