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Section I: SOME HISTORY OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE KATRINA

A. Prelude

The Tradition, poem by Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur
12/31/1987
Unraveling the Myths: 500 Years of Oppression, 500 Years of Resistance
José López
07/04/1992

B. A Bit of History

NOLA Timeline 1444-2005

07/25/2007

Sharon Martinas, Brad Ott

Katrina Reader Team
Reconstruction II: The Fire Next Time

06/06/2005

United for a Fair Economy
New Orleans: A Choice Between Destruction and Reparations

Nov-Dec 2005

David Billings
A Changing Neighborhood: How a Portion of the Ninth Ward Shifted Across 40 Years

11/14/1993
A Death in Destrehan

02/01/2007

Bob Herbert

C. Some Examples of Resistance since the 1970's

Malik Rahim on Black Panthers and Black Resistance in New Orleans (Interview)

Malik Rahim, Brice White

03/13/2000
For a Former Panther, Solidarity After the Storm

Michelle Garcia

12/04/2005
A Whole Lotta Peoples Is Strong: Graphics from the Louisiana New South Coalition

Louisiana New South Coalition

1992
(Ed: The pictures in this calendar give a visual snapshot of the powerful tradition of grassroots racial justice organizing in New Orleans that has been recreated in the aftermath of Katrina.)
'A Dream Realized.' 'Accountability Statement of the St. Thomas Irish Channel Consortiumand 'Organizational Diagrams of the Kuji Center and STICC.'

St. Thomas/Irish Channel Consortium

Late 1990's
Before the Storm: Oral Histories of New Orleans

The Neighborhood Story Project: Our Stories Told By Us

Oct-Nov 2005 issue of Left Turn Magazine
COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED: An Effort to Build Unity in a Grass Roots New Orleans Community: Background and Development of Community

Community Labor United

2004
Who We Are: History [of FFLIC]

Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children

Fall 2005

D. More Readings on History

For More Readings on History
Katrina Reader Team
07/23/2007

Section II: "THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"

A. Voices of Survival and Solidarity During the Great Flood

Wade in the Water
Walidah Imarisha
Human Rights Coalition
01/01/2005
'This is criminal': Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans
Malik Rahim
Common Ground Collective
09/01/2005
Dear Incite! Friends & Supporters, plus letter from Shana Griffin
Nada Elia, Shana Griffin
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
09/11/2005
Venezuela's Chavez Offers Hurricane Aid
Ian James
Associated Press
09/01/2005
Castro Offers Medical Help
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune
09/02/2005
Notes From Inside New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
09/02/2005
Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
Tim Wise
09/02/2005
Letter from Alisa Bierria, INCITE!
Alisa Bierria
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
09/03/2005
[Letter to] Brothers and Sisters Who Want to Help
FFLIC staff – Gina Womack, Xochitl Bervera, Grace Bauer, and Kori Higgs
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
09/04/2005
Displaced New Orleans Community Demands Action, Accountability and Initiates A People’s Hurricane Fund
Muhammad Curtis and Becky Belcore
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
09/04/2005
National Anti-racist Organization Calls for U.N. Investigation of Federal Response to Katrina
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
09/06/2005
Indian Groups Raise Money for Katrina Victims
Native American Times
09/06/2005
First By the Floods, Then By Martial Law
Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky
09/06/2005
Support Hard Knock Radio and Third World Majority’s Media Justice
Hard Knock Radio
09/09/2005
A Prayer Band
Suheir Hammad
09/10/2005
Ethnic Communities Rally to Help Katrina Survivors
Daffodil Altan
09/11/2005
Back Inside New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
09/12/2005
Grassroots Movement Mobilization and Demand Statement
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
09/13/2005
National Conference of Black Lawyers blasts Bush regime
National Conference of Black Lawyers
09/14/2005
Disasters
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
09/18/2005
Momma's Mission
Trymaine D. Lee, Times Picayune
09/18/2005
Malik Rahim and medics from SF to DC set up health clinic in New Orleans
San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper
09/18/2005
Dear friends of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
09/20/2005
Shelter and Safety
Jordan Flaherty
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
09/20/2005
Elderly Black Woman Arrested for Looting
Kevin McGill and John Solomon
09/21/2005
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
Human Rights Watch
09/22/2005
Momma D & Soul Patrol: Needs List
Catherine Jones
09/24/2005
The Partner with a Katrina Family Network
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
09/29/2005
Indian Tribes and Hurricane Katrina: Overlooked by the Federal Government, Relief Organizations and the Corporate Media
Amy Goodman interviews Brenda Dardar-Robichaux, Principal Chief of United Houma Nation, and Charles Verdin, Chairman of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe
Democracy Now!
10/10/2005
Black New orleans Residents Being Arrested for Returning Home
JDC
SF Bayview
10/12/2005
We Need a Movement of Millions
Mumia Abu-Jamal
10/15/2005
'ACORN Katrina Survivors Association Will Unite Displaced Residents to Work for a Just Recovery
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
10/18/2005
Floodlines: Catherine Jones' Blog
Catherine Jones
10/25/2005
The Battle for New Orleans: Only a Real Movement Can Win This War
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
Black Commentator
10/27/2005
New Orleans and Women of Color: Connecting the Personal and Political
Janelle L White, INCITE! New Orleans
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
11/01/2005
Katrina Wars
Wanda Sabir
SF Bayview
11/16/2005
Community and Resistance
Jordan Flaherty
11/26/2005
On the Role of Race and Class in Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina
Democracy Now!
12/09/2005
Commissioners from African diaspora come in solidarity to New Orleans
Arlene Eisen
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
09/03/2006
Feature Stories from Democracy Now! to mark the 2 Year Anniversary of Katrina
Democracy Now!
08/29/2007
International Tribunal DVD
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
08/29/2007

B. Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex

Dear Incite! Friends & Supporters, plus letter from Shana Griffin
Nada Elia, Shana Griffin
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
09/11/2005
Classroom Reader
Katrina Meets Kucinich
David Swanson
06/11/2008
Classroom Reader
Breakdown FM: White Vigilantees Killed 200 Blacks During Katrina
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
09/10/2007
Classroom Reader
How to Destroy an African American City in 33 Steps - Lessons from Katrina
Bill Quigley
Black Commentator
06/28/2007
Classroom Reader
To Render Ourselves Visible: Women of Color Organizing & Hurricane Katrina
Alisa Bierria, Mayaba Liebenthal
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader
Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises: An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
Oxfam America
08/17/2006
Classroom Reader
Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on The American Gulf Coast
Rita J. King
CorpWatch
08/15/2006
One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader
Facilitators' Guide: Workshops on Imperialism and Disaster
Kali Akuno (PHRF), Chris Crass (Catalyst Project), Liz Darias (SOUL: School for Unity and Liberation), Arlene Eisen (PHRF), Marisa Franco (POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights), Mei-ying Ho (SOUL), Sharon Martinas (CWS), Alicia Schwartz (POWER), and Steve Williams (POWER)
07/01/2006
Ten Months After Katrina: Gutting New Orleans
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
06/29/2006
Landmarks in the History of Imperialism, White Supremacy and Male Supremacy in New Orleans: Before, During and After Katrina
Sharon Martinas
Challenging White Supremacy workshop (CWS)
06/01/2006
Glossary of the Struggle for New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
03/21/2006
House Katrina Package: Much Too Little; Much Too Late
Chris Kromm
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
03/17/2006
Katrina 6 Mo. Later: Activists Discuss Grassroots Disaster Relief, Evictions, Racism and the Struggle to Help Those Left Behind
Democracy Now!
03/03/2006
The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006
Six Months After Katrina: Who Was Left Behind Then and Who is Being Left Behind Now?
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
02/21/2006
Color of Disaster in New Orleans: Fact Sheet for Challenging Racism Workshop
Arlene Eisen
02/18/2006
A 20-Point Plan to Destroy Black New Orleans
Robert D. Bullard
SF Bayview
02/01/2006
Classroom Reader
Privatizing New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
01/28/2006
Race Matters
Judith Browne
Advancement Project
01/28/2006
Disaster: The New State of the State
Gihan Perera
Miami Workers' Center
01/23/2006
Fighting the Theft of New Orleans: The Rhythm of Resistance
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
Black Commentator
01/19/2006
Classroom Reader
The Kuji Center
Louisiana New South Coalition 1992
01/04/2006
Who killed New Orleans?
Mike Davis
12/01/2005
Post-Katrina conference at UCLA: Experts say Katrina not over
CC Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
11/16/2005
Changing New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
11/04/2005
New Orleans and Women of Color: Connecting the Personal and Political
Janelle L White, INCITE! New Orleans
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
11/01/2005
Classroom Reader
Purging the Poor
Naomi Klein
10/10/2005
Letter in Support of the Movement in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Notes on Strategy and Tactics
Eric Mann
09/29/2005
N'COBRA DEMANDS IMMEDIATE COMPREHENSIVE RELIEF AND REPARATIONS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA)
09/26/2005
Fighting for New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
09/26/2005
Blackwater Down: Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity
Jeremy Scahill
09/23/2005
Classroom Reader
Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation's 9/11!
Saladin Muhammad
09/16/2005
Classroom Reader
Hold the United States Accountable: The Internationally Recognized Rights of the 'Internally Displaced'
Ajamu Baraka
Black Commentator
09/15/2005
Grassroots Movement Mobilization and Demand Statement
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
09/13/2005
Classroom Reader

For More Reading on the Disaster Industrial Complex:

Book: After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
David Dante Troutt, ed.
09/01/2007
Book: What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation
South End Press Collective (editors)
01/02/2007
Classroom Reader
Book: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, editors
08/21/2006
Book: "Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast"
Eric Mann
08/03/2006
Classroom Reader
The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006
Book: Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Michael Eric Dyson
01/02/2006
The Real Looting: Katrina Exposes a Legacy
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright
10/11/2005

C. Institutions: Where There is Oppression, There is Resistance

Economy

Overview:

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on The American Gulf Coast
Rita J. King
CorpWatch
08/15/2006

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

And Injustice for All: Workers' Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans
Judith Browne-Dianis (Advancement Project,), Jennifer Lai (Advancement Project), Marielena Hincapie (National Immigration Law Center), and Saket Soni (New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition/Advancement Project)
Advancement Project
07/01/2006
Classroom Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Articles:

Lawsuit claims Louisiana farmer abused Mexican guest workers; FBI investigates allegations
JOHN MORENO GONZALES
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
01/28/2009
Classroom Reader

Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans
07/28/2008

Call to Action -- June 11 Solidarity with Guestworker Hunger Strike
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
06/07/2008
Classroom Reader

Celebrate International Workers Day
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
04/25/2008
Classroom Reader

"Like pigs in a cage": Katrina guest workers fight 21st century slavery in Mississippi
Institute for Southern Studies
03/14/2008
Classroom Reader

Katrina Survivors and Immigrant Workers Unite to Arrest Slave Owner
People's Organizing Committee
02/15/2007
Classroom Reader

A National Call to Students - “Louisiana Winter”
Tracie L. Washington
Gulf Coast Civic Works Project
12/09/2006
Classroom Reader

After a Year, Hurricane Katrina Still Pummels Workers
Jane Slaughter
Labor Notes
10/30/2006

Book: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, editors
08/21/2006

Immigration Issues Real in Delta: Struggle to hold on to what we have
Dawn Turner Trice
06/20/2006

Katrina's Aftermath Transforms Work in the Gulf Region
Mark Brenner
Black Commentator
05/18/2006

A Petition to Build the Black and Brown Alliance for Justice and Human Rights!
S. Muhammad
Black Workers League
04/26/2006

Looking for Common Ground
David Bacon
New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
11/27/2005
Classroom Reader

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Education

Overview:

Double Jeopardy: Public Education in New Orleans Before and After the Storm
Michael Casserly
08/17/2007

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
01/01/2007

Dismantling a Community
Center for Community Change
10/01/2006
Classroom Reader

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Articles:

Teach for America to double numbers
Darran Simon
05/14/2008
Classroom Reader

Feature Stories from Democracy Now! to mark the 2 Year Anniversary of Katrina
Democracy Now!
08/29/2007
Classroom Reader

Survivors Council to Open Lawless High School. Residents and Volunteers Face Down Cops and School Officials
People's Organizing Committee
03/08/2007
Classroom Reader

LEFT BEHIND: Documentary Provides...Look at the Orleans Parish School System before, during and after Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans Agenda
12/04/2006

After the Storm, Students Left Alone and Angry
Adam Nossiter
10/31/2006

Continuing Crisis in New Orleans' Schools
Jordan Flaherty
10/13/2006

Hurricane Katrina: Reading Injustice, celebrating solidarity.
Linda Christensen
Rethinking Schools
10/01/2006

Rethinking New Orleans Schools
Jordan Flaherty
08/09/2006
Classroom Reader

'Kids Rethinking New Orleans' Schools:' a packet of materials
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools
08/01/2006

The Lower Ninth: Ground Zero for Reparations and Education
Kofi-Charu Nat Turner
08/01/2006

The Struggle for New Orleans' School System
Jordan Flaherty
04/01/2006

Lower Ninth Ward residents win right to clean up and open MLK School
Kerul Dyer
Common Ground Collective
03/19/2006
Classroom Reader

Washin' Away: A trial activity asks who's guilty for Katrina's horrors
Ian McFeat
Rethinking Schools
01/01/2006

Teaching about Katrina
Enid Lee
Teaching for Change
10/15/2005

An Unnatural Disaster: What Will Teachers Do?
Bree Picower
New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)
09/08/2005

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Elections

For more reading
10/25/2007
Classroom Reader

5 Reasons Tomorrow’s Election Doesn’t Matter
Jordan Flaherty
05/19/2006

Bush, lies and videotape
C.C. Campbell-Rock
People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
03/08/2006
Classroom Reader

The whitewashing of New Orleans
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
03/01/2006
Classroom Reader

Voter disenfranchisement by attrition
Benjamin Greenberg
11/23/2005

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Environment

Overview:

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

Race, Poverty and the Environment: A journal for Social and Environmental Justice
Urban Habitat
07/01/2006

Storm Cloud Over New Orleans: Is the Big Easy Ready for the Next Big Storm?
Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
06/01/2006

In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina
Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Beverly Wright
Russell Sage Foundation
05/01/2006
Classroom Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Articles:

Bioremediation project of Common Ground
Common Ground Collective
04/01/2007

Great Hearing on Environmental Justice
Bill Quigley
10/12/2006

Dr. Beverly Wright honored with Robert Wood Johnson Leadership Award
Vincent Sylvain
New Orleans Agenda
09/23/2006
Classroom Reader

Are the Levees Ready?
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
06/14/2006

Hurricane Season Begins June 1: Will the Levees be Ready?
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
05/03/2006

We Have the Right to Return to Healthy & Safe Neighborhoods
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
11/01/2005

Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) re-entry tool kit
Marylee Orr
Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)
10/01/2005

Katrina Uncovers: Activism, Racism and Environmental Justice. (#39-05)
National Radio Project
09/21/2005
Classroom Reader

Katrina Uncovers: Environment, Health and Rescue (#38-05)
National Radio Project
09/13/2005
Classroom Reader

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Foundations

Gulf-Coast Nonprofit Leaders Call for Ongoing Donations
Suzanne Perry
04/19/2007

Catastrophic Failure: Foundations, Nonprofits, and the Continuing Crisis in New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
12/16/2006

Women Fund and Fight for Katrina Recovery
Juliette Terzieff
08/28/2006
Classroom Reader

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Health

Overview:

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital in New Orleans: A timeline since its forced closure after Hurricane Katrina
K. Brad Ott
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Book: What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation
South End Press Collective (editors)
01/02/2007
Classroom Reader

Book: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, editors
08/21/2006

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Articles:

Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital, ‘Re-open New Orleans’ Rev. Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital!’ (flyer)
10/26/2008
Classroom Reader

WHJI and NOWHC respons to LaBruzzo
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
09/27/2008
Classroom Reader

Nationally Recognized Architectural Firm Says Charity Hospital “Structurally Sound” and Ready for Transformation to State-of-the
08/20/2008
Classroom Reader

Re-open New Orleans’ Rev. Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital!
Louisiana Justice Institute
05/21/2008
Classroom Reader

Betraying an American Tradition: The Killing of Charity Hospital
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
05/02/2008
Classroom Reader

The Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic Opens To Serve The Medical Needs Of The Community
Alice Craft-Kerney
Common Ground Collective
03/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Join or Support an Incite! Delegation to New Orleans! Updated Call for Delegates
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Common Ground Health Clinic Updates
Common Ground Health Clinic
01/06/2007
Classroom Reader

Dissolving Barriers: New Orleans Latino Health Outreach Project
Catherine Jones and Jennifer Whitney
Latino Health Outreach Project
06/26/2006
Classroom Reader

A Legacy of the Storm: Depression and Suicide
SUSAN SAULNY, New York Times
06/21/2006
Classroom Reader

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Housing: FEMA

Overview:

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

Where is Home? Housing for Low-Income People After the 2005 Hurricanes
Sheila Crowley
03/15/2006
Classroom Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Book: Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Michael Eric Dyson
01/02/2006

Articles:

Rep. Waters introduces Katrina Housing Recovery Legislation
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
05/03/2007
Classroom Reader

We Called it Hurricane FEMA
Peter Whoriskey
03/12/2007

U.S. ignores its own human rights crisis
Jeffrey Buchanan
12/13/2006

The Acorn Katrina Survivors Association
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
08/01/2006

The modern day 'never ending story': post-Katrina long-term recovery
Amber McZeal
SF Bayview
07/05/2006

Fight Back for FEMA Disaster Housing
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
04/01/2006

FEMA: Promises Made, Promises Broken
Bill Quigley
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
04/01/2006

Homeless Katrina Survivors denied Stafford Act's 18 month of housing
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
02/15/2006

NO MORE HOMELESS KATRINA SURVIVORS
Common Ground Collective
02/09/2006

Angry Hurricane Evacuees Sue Feds
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
11/30/2005
Classroom Reader

New Orleans Victory against Evictions
Ishmael Muhammad
11/30/2005

Hurricane evacuees to protest at tree lighting ceremony
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
11/25/2005

No Home for the Holidays: Stop Evictions of Katrina Evacuees
Bill Quigley
Common Dreams
11/23/2005

From FEMA to City Hall: Where Does the Buck Stop? (and two other articles
Miami Workers' Center
11/11/2005

Demands of the Hurricane Evacuees Council/Bay Area
Hurricane Evacuees Council/Bay Area
11/01/2005
Classroom Reader

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Housing: Louisiana Recovery Authority

No "Road Home" for Renters
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
03/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Louisiana Road Home Program
ACORN Housing
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
02/01/2007

Guide to The Louisiana Road Home Program
Common Ground Collective
01/01/2007

'Disband the LRA' declare survivors and advocates to the Louisiana Legislative Special Session
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
12/06/2006

What is the Louisiana Road Home Program?
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
12/06/2006

"We Want Our Money" Rally and packet of materials
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
11/18/2006

Slow Home Grants Stall Progress in New Orleans
Leslie Eaton
New York Times
11/11/2006

Whites appealed Katrina insurance more
RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and FRANK BASS
Associated Press
10/24/2006

Louisiana Legislators to Low-income Renters: Don't Come Back!
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
10/23/2006

Small Victory! Major struggle ahead - Legislators approve LRA rental program
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
10/06/2006

Legislators approve LRA rental program: Affordable-housing clauses draw fire
Robert Travis Scott
10/06/2006

A Thousand Rally to Put Louisianans First
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
11/07/2005

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Housing: New Orleans 'Planning' Perspectives & Processes

Overview

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

"The Planning Process in New Orleans" - A Workshop Packet for European Dissent
Jedidiah Horne
09/01/2006

Book: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, editors
08/21/2006

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Six Months After Katrina: Who Was Left Behind - Then and Now
Bill Quigley
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/21/2006

A 20-Point Plan to Destroy Black New Orleans
Robert D. Bullard
SF Bayview
02/01/2006
Classroom Reader

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Corporate Planning for a Richer & Whiter New Orleans

PHRF Condemns Recovery Czar Edward Blakely and Mayor Nagin
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
04/11/2007

Steering New Orleans’s Recovery With a Clinical Eye
Adam Nossiter
New York Times
04/09/2007

City announces first 17 target recovery zones
03/29/2007

New Orleans Proposes to Invest in 17 Areas
Adam Nossiter
New York Times
03/29/2007

UNOP: The Unified New Orleans Plan
United New Orleans Plan
01/29/2007

Analysis of Proposed Single City-Wide and Neighborhood-Level Recovery Planning Process for the City of New Orleans: Factual Back
Jeffrey J. Thomas, Esq.
06/23/2006

The Bring New Orleans Back Commission
06/01/2006

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Equity, Neighborhood-Based and Grassroots Racial Justice Planning

New Orleans ACORN celebrates rebuilding victory
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
06/04/2007
Classroom Reader

Recover, Rebuild, Organize
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
08/01/2006

ACORN Planning Principles: Rebuilding After Hurricane Katrina
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
07/23/2006

ACORN Housing Wins Place in New Orleans Rebuilding Plan
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
07/22/2006

PHRF Reconstruction Committee Field Work Group Critique of the Bring New Orleans Back Proposal
PHRF Reconstruction Committee
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
03/31/2006
Classroom Reader

New Orleans redevelopment plan = another naked land grab
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
03/01/2006

Excerpts from Policy Link website
Policy Link
02/01/2006

Neighborhoods Partnership Network
Neighborhoods Partnership Network
01/01/2006

ACORN members Protest Plan to Shut Out New Orleans Neighborhoods
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
12/14/2005

Blacks Need a Vision for the Cities
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
Black Commentator
11/10/2005

People’s Reconstruction Platform for Reconstruction with Justice in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
10/01/2005
Classroom Reader

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Housing: New Orleans East

Rebel Survivors: The Vietnamese of New Orleans East won a grassroots victory nobody expected
Eric Tang
01/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Boat People
Eric Tang
04/01/2006
Classroom Reader

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Housing: The Ninth Ward

Common Ground Responds to City's Attempt to Confiscate Property
Common Ground Collective
03/14/2007
Classroom Reader

The Land Grab has Begun!
Common Ground Collective
02/24/2007

In New Orleans, Progress at Last in the Lower Ninth Ward
ADAM NOSSITER, New York Times
02/23/2007

Dedication of two new homes signals rebirth of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
02/21/2007

9th Ward Can Be Rebuilt, Planners Say
Cain Burdeau, Associated Press Writer
01/07/2007

Come and Volunteer in New Orleans!
Home for the Holidays collaboration: All Congregations Together, Common Ground 9th Ward Projects, People’s Hurricane Relief Fund
Common Ground Collective
10/15/2006
Classroom Reader

Trying to Make it Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
08/22/2006
Classroom Reader

Hopes and homes subject to seizure on Katrina's anniversary
Stephen Bradberry and Jeffrey Buchanan
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
08/16/2006

New Orleans ACORN Demands 'Memorials not Demolitions
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
07/20/2006

Common Ground Collective: Project Descriptions in the 9th Ward
Common Ground Collective
05/01/2006

Water is a human right: Help restore hope, dignity and Water to the Lower Ninth Ward
Common Ground Collective
04/19/2006

ACORN Katrina Organizing Updates
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
04/15/2006

Make history: Join the ‘Second Freedom Rides’ to rebuild New Orleans
Common Ground Collective
02/15/2006

Another Victory for the people! Justice shall prevail!
Judith Browne
Advancement Project
01/14/2006

Big profits, buried lives: Bulldozing the Dead in New Orleans
Scott Boehm
01/11/2006

Current Common Ground Relief Programs
Common Ground Collective
01/10/2006

Legal Victory Stops Property Demolition - People of New Orleans 9th Ward Win Restraining Order Against City
Cassandra Burrows
12/28/2005
Classroom Reader

Activists from far and wide helping N.O.: They fill 'void' in the 9th Ward
Gwen Filosa, Staff Writer - Times Picayune
11/04/2005

'Roadtrip for Relief.' Call for 300 volunteers to gut houses in the 9th Ward
Common Ground Collective
11/01/2005
Classroom Reader

Common Ground: Solidarity with Ninth Ward Begins
Common Ground Collective
10/18/2005

Grassroots Group Plans Thanksgiving Relief Effort in New Orleans
Jessica Azulay
09/27/2005

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Housing: Tenants Rights in 'Private' Housing

New Orleans Redraws Its Color Line
Lizzy Ratner
08/27/2008
Classroom Reader

PHRF makes a breakthrough on price gouging and tenant rights in New Orleans
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
03/15/2007
Classroom Reader

PHRF and Tenant Rights Working Group condemn class bias of City Council -Calls for Affordable Housing and the Right of Return
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
03/15/2007

Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and New Orleans? Are Katrina Survivors Part of Bush's "Axis of Evil"
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
02/01/2007

Price Gouging & Tenants' Rights: A Petition to the New Orleans City Council
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
11/22/2006

Letter asking for support for the 100 tenants in Woodlands Apartments facing eviction
Common Ground Collective
11/21/2006

More Housing for Poor Opposed: Roberts says those from city unwelcome
Meghan Gordon
10/19/2006

Rental policy called discriminatory; Black people ruled out, group charges
Bob Warren
09/27/2006

Renewal Money for New Orleans Bypasses Renters
Susan Saulny and Gary Rivlin, The New York Times
09/17/2006

Common Ground Collective: Grassroots group launches development project
C.C. Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
05/31/2006

Fair Housing Center Hosts Public Forum on Race and Rebuilding
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
12/01/2005

Threatened New Orleans Tenants Fight Back Against Evictions Scourge
Jessica Azulay
11/23/2005

Fair Housing Center to File Discrimination Complaint against Katrina Housing Web Sites
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
11/17/2005

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Housing: Tenants Rights in Public Housing

Public Housing: Photo Gallery

Photos from the Struggle

Homeland Secuity Begins with Homes!!!
Elizabeth Cook
C3 / Hands Off Iberville
04/12/2007

Revised Action Plan
Survivors' Village
04/01/2007

The Human Right to Housing: Access for Survivors in the Gulf
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
03/20/2007

Re-Open 3000 New Orleans Apartments!' Tell Your Congressperson to Pass the Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery Act of 2007
(from list serve 'baygulfsupporters@lists.riseup.net')
03/18/2007

Displaced Public Housing Residents Make City Council Member's Neighborhood Mixed Income
Survivors' Village
03/03/2007

Public Housing Residents Take Back Their Homes; Newsletter
People's Organizing Committee
02/11/2007

As Police Arrest Public Housing Activists in New Orleans, Federal Officials Try to Silence Leading Attorney
Anita Sinha
Democracy Now!
01/31/2007

Principles of Public Housing
Cry Baby
01/17/2007

Occupation at St. Bernard Housing Project
Survivors' Village
01/15/2007

Public Housing Takes Center Stage in Post-Katrina Struggle. New Documentary Tells the Story of Those Fighting to Return Home
Crystal N. Hill
Advancement Project
01/12/2007

Video: "This is My Home: The Fight for Public Housing in New Orleans"
Advancement Project
12/19/2006

Save Affordable NOLA Housing Fact Sheet
Bill Quigley
12/19/2006

Nine Myths and Realities of Public/Low-Income Housing in New Orleans: Reasons to Support Displaced Residents' Right to Return
Survivors' Village
12/17/2006

Return, Rebuild, Resist! Newsletter
People's Organizing Committee
12/16/2006

The battle over New Orleans housing intensifies
Institute for Southern Studies
11/30/2006

Demolition is developments' destiny, HANO says Agency confronts civil rights lawsuit
Gwen Filosa, Staff Writer, Times-Picayune
10/18/2006

The Importance of Civil Disobedience in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Elizabeth Cook
09/17/2006
Classroom Reader

Response to letter objecting to plans to demolish New Orleans public housing
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
08/14/2006

National Call to Action: Support housing rights in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina anniversary
Survivors' Village
Survivors' Village
08/06/2006

Grassroots fight for Gulf Coast justice
CC Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
06/28/2006

Displaced residents file suit; Local, federal housing agencies face civil rights allegations
Gwen Filosa, Staff Writer, Times-Picayune
06/28/2006

Federal Agencies Sued for Violations of the Fair Housing Act Against New Orleans Public Housing Residents
Advancement Project
06/27/2006

Primer on New Orleans Public Housing
Advancement Project
06/27/2006

Public Housing Protesters Disrupt Business as Unusual in the French Quarter
Survivors' Village
06/27/2006

HUD to NOLA Poor - 'Go F(ind) Yourself (Housing)!'
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
06/15/2006

United Front for Affordable Housing Announces the Opening of the Survivor's Village
Survivors' Village
06/03/2006

Clear the way back to public housing
M. Endesha Juakali
Survivors' Village
03/15/2006

New Orleans Public Housing Residents Set to Fight Off Developers
Kari Lydersen
02/27/2006

Our Town: New Orleans Residents Demand the Reopening of Public Housing Units
Bill Sasser
02/23/2006

Loss and Displacement at the Calliope
Jennifer Vitry and Jordan Flaherty
01/12/2006

Hope VI and St. Thomas: Smoke, Mirrors and Urban Mercantilism
Brod Bagert, Jr.
09/01/2002

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Tenants Rights in Public Housing: Historical Perspectives

Reading Racism and More on Nola.com: What’s Really Driving the Demolition of Public Housing in New Orleans?
Darwin Bond Graham
12/23/2007
Classroom Reader

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Tenants Rights in Public Housing: Facts and Talking Points

Rebuilding a Stronger New Orleans Together (newsletter)
homecomingnews@homecomingcenter.com
03/01/2008
Classroom Reader

Myths and Facts About Public Housing in New Orleans
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
12/17/2007
Classroom Reader

Fewer Homes for Katrina’s Poorest Victims
Policy Link
Policy Link
12/01/2007
Classroom Reader

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Stop the Demolition Coalition: 2007

The Ongoing Struggle for New Orleans Public Housing
Jennifer Whitney
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/26/2007

New Orleans Police Taser, Pepper Spray Residents Seeking to Block Public Housing Demolition
Democracy Now!
12/21/2007

City Council Ignores Housing Crisis, Discriminatory Vote Set (Dec 2007)
Coalition to Stop the Demolition
12/20/2007

City Council Ignores Housing Crisis, Discriminatory Vote Set
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/20/2007

Demolition of B.W. Cooper projects halted
12/19/2007

Housing projects will be demolished, a majority of City Council confirms
Gwen Filosa, Times-Picayune staff writer
Times-Picayune
12/19/2007

High Noon in New Orleans: The Bulldozers Are Ready
Nicolai Ouroussoff
New York Times
12/19/2007
Classroom Reader

Stop the Demolition: Photo Gallery
Katrina Reader Team
12/18/2007
Workshop Reader

"The People Must Decide" – Survivors Village
12/18/2007
Classroom Reader

Stop the Demolition Coalition Media Messages and Talking Points
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/18/2007

Save NOLA Affordable Housing Fact Sheet
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/18/2007

Stop the Demolition Coalition Fact Sheet
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/18/2007

Obama Calls on President to Protect Affordable Housing in New Orleans, Keep Promise to Gulf Coast
Senator Barack Obama
12/18/2007

Video: The Battle Over New Orleans Public Housing
Big Noise Tactical Media
12/18/2007
Classroom Reader

Stopping the Demolition
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
12/17/2007

"Housing Not War" – Stop Demolition
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
12/17/2007

"Coalition to Stop the Demolitions" Dec 17 2007 Update
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/17/2007
Classroom Reader

Stop HUD Demolitions
12/16/2007

Public Housing: Rooting the Struggle in Past Reconstructions
Darwin BondGraham
12/16/2007

NOLA Housing Crisis Update Dec 15 2007
Bill Quigley
12/15/2007

Christmas Demonstration Against the Razing of Public Housing
12/14/2007

Policing Demonstrators for Public Housing in NOLA
12/14/2007

Police confront locked demonstrators for public housing
12/14/2007

Speaker Pelosi and Reid Urge President to Halt Demolition of Public Housing in New Orleans
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid
12/14/2007

HUD Temporarily Halts Demolitions at Three Housing Sites
Susan Finch, Times-Picayune staff writer
Times-Picayune
12/14/2007

Demonstration to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
12/12/2007
Classroom Reader

St. Bernard Tent City
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
12/12/2007

NOLA Housing Update Dec 11 2007
Bill Quigley
12/11/2007

New Orleans needs your support
Ingrid Chapman
Catalyst Project
12/08/2007

HUD Demolition Fact Sheet 11-07-07
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
11/07/2007

Developers scheduled to get millions after NOLA public housing is destroyed
Bill Quigley
10/02/2007

Displaced Poor Still Arriving in New Orleans
Bill Quigley
Justice For New Orleans
09/07/2007

Greetings Friends and Comrades
Survivors' Village
04/07/2007

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Stop the Demolition Coalition: 2008

Three Years Later, 6,500 Subsidized New Orleans Apartments Fester
Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune
10/10/2008

Homes for the Holidays (Needed in NOLA)
10/07/2008

Three Years After Katrina: While Republicans and Democrats Gather and Celebrate, A City Still Searches for Recovery
Jordan Flaherty
08/27/2008

HUD pays millions to open Lafitte, but complex will be demolished in March
Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune
08/26/2008

Credit crunch threatens N.O. housing plans
Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune
04/08/2008

Dreams Turned Into Rubble in New Orleans
Anita Sinha and Jill Tauber
Common Dreams
03/26/2008

Nagin OKs demolition of Lafitte housing complex
Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune
03/25/2008
Classroom Reader

Religious Leaders Help Renters Buy in New Orleans
Greg Allen
03/14/2008
Classroom Reader

Half New Orleans poor permanently displaced: Failure or success?
Bill Quigley
Institute for Southern Studies
03/08/2008
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

UN experts call for protection of housing rights of Hurricane Katrina victims
UN Human Rights Council Rapporteurs
02/28/2008

Coalition condemns the start of St. Bernard Demolition
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
02/19/2008

Coalition condemns demolition order for the St. Bernard projects and the criminalization of the homeless
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
02/02/2008

Coalition Response to Louisiana Senator David Vitter
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
02/01/2008

International Call to Defend Public Housing and Stop Neo-Liberalism in New Orleans
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
01/25/2008

Save Black and Working-Class New Orleans
01/11/2008
Classroom Reader

Letter from Endesha Juakali
Endesha Juakali
01/10/2008

Locked Outside the Gates: The Struggle for Affordable Housing in New Orleans
Bill Quigley
01/02/2008

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Some Examples of National Solidarity

California Letter Carriers Resolution on Gulf Coast Reconstruction
California State Association of Letter Carriers
04/12/2008
Classroom Reader

Resolution to Support the Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act - S. 1668
San Francisco Labor Council
San Francisco Labor Council
02/14/2008
Classroom Reader

New York Solidarity Action with the Displaced of New Orleans
01/25/2008
Classroom Reader

Housing is a Human Right: Chicago, Atlanta and New Orleans
US Human Rights Network
01/17/2008
Classroom Reader

Open Letter to New Orleans City Council
Color Of Change
12/19/2007
Classroom Reader

Letter from New Orleans
Clare Bayard and Ingrid Chapman
Catalyst Project
12/17/2007
Classroom Reader

Letter to Justice Department Dalling for Investigation of Housing Secretary
Mennonite Gulf Disaster Response Program
12/13/2007
Classroom Reader

Human Rights Groups Condemn Demolition
US Human Rights Network
12/13/2007
Classroom Reader

Bay Area Solidarity Action: Defend Public Housing in New Orleans 2007
Bay Area Katrina Solidarity Network
12/13/2007
Classroom Reader

Shame on DH Griffin for Profitting off of Housing Demolition
Isabell Moore
Coalition to Stop the Demolitions
12/12/2007
Classroom Reader

4,500 homes in New Orleans will be destroyed - Take Action Now!
democracyinaction.org
12/11/2007
Classroom Reader

Post Katrina-4,600 units to be demolished // Teach-in
Sandra Bernabei
12/10/2007
Classroom Reader

Resolution Opposing Demolition of Public Housing
San Francisco Labor Council
12/10/2007
Classroom Reader

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Media, Polls, Ideology, Culture

Overview:

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Articles:

Jackson-Brown Danced While New Orleans Lay Dying – Hey, It worked in Iraq!
Anonymous
11/11/2008
Classroom Reader

[Lyrics] Jackson-Brown Danced While New Orleans Lay Dying – Hey, It worked in Iraq!
Anonymous
11/09/2008
Classroom Reader

Local civil rights icons never thought they'd live to see African-American president
Katy Reckdahl
11/05/2008
Classroom Reader

Local civil rights icons never thought they'd live to see African-American president
Katy Reckdahl
Times-Picayune
11/05/2008
Classroom Reader

Trouble The Water
07/25/2008
Classroom Reader

Don’t Start Me to Talking or I’ll Tell You Everything I Know
Junebug Productions, Junebug Productions Presents: Southern Roots Collective, Free Southern Theater Collective
03/28/2008
Classroom Reader

New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival: Fifth Annual
03/26/2008
Classroom Reader

The Second Line
Michael Otieno Molina
10/05/2007
Classroom Reader

CULTURE, CHANGE COLLIDE IN TREME
Katy Reckdahl
Times-Picayune
10/02/2007

New Orleans Community Spaces in Crisis
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
03/07/2007
Classroom Reader

Building Unity to Take Back Our City: A brief report on the Mobilizations of Monday, February 19th, 2007
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
03/03/2007

Book: What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation
South End Press Collective (editors)
01/02/2007
Classroom Reader

Video: When the Levees Broke
Spike Lee
09/01/2006

Natural Disasters in Black and White: How Racial Cues Influenced Public Response to Hurricane Katrina
Shanto Iyengar and Richard Morin
06/08/2006

Poetry: "On Refuge and Language" and "What I Will"
Suheir Hammad
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work
06/01/2006

Nothing Stops Mardi Gras
Jordan Flaherty
Common Dreams
02/24/2006

Mardi Gras 2006: As Partying Resumes, Struggle to Recover and Return Continues
CC Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
02/22/2006

Finding Our Folk
Finding Our Folk
01/15/2006
Classroom Reader

Katrina: A Study. Black Consensus, White Dispute.
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
Black Commentator
01/05/2006

Book: Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Michael Eric Dyson
01/02/2006

Lessons of Katrina: America's Major Racial and Ethnic Groups Find Common Ground After the Storm
Bendixen & Associates
New America Media
10/27/2005
Classroom Reader

THE UNTOLD STORY OF KATRINAS' AFTERMATH
Malkia A. Cyril
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
09/01/2005
Classroom Reader

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Prison Industrial Complex

Overview:

A New Agenda for the Gulf Coast: What Congress can do now to confront the ongoing crisis of Hurricane Katrina
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/01/2007
Classroom Reader

Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
01/01/2007

One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader

Abandoned and Abused: Orleans Parish Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
American Civil Liberties Union: National Prison Project
08/09/2006
Classroom Reader

The Mardi Gras Index: The State of New Orleans by Numbers Six Months After Hurricane Katrina
Elena Everett, Chris Kromm, and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
02/28/2006

Articles:

Torture at Angola Prison
Jordan Flaherty
01/30/2009
Classroom Reader

Moving Target: The NOPD baits the homeless and other perpetrators with beer, candy and cigarettes to net burglary arrests
Richard A. Webster
07/14/2008
Classroom Reader

Safe Streets/Strong Communities Independent Police Monitor Action alert
Safe Streets/Strong Communities
06/17/2008
Classroom Reader

Organizing for Freedom: Inside Angola Prison, Louisiana's Last Slave Plantation
Jordan Flaherty
Safe Streets/Strong Communities
06/10/2008
Classroom Reader

Organizing for Freedom: Inside Angola Prison, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation
Jordan Flaherty
06/10/2008
Classroom Reader

Youth prison abuse alleged
Sandy Davis
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
04/28/2008
Classroom Reader

Parents protest conditions at juvenile detenion center
Gwen Filosa
04/19/2008
Classroom Reader

"Residents line up for a fresh start"
03/31/2008
Classroom Reader

Feature Stories from Democracy Now! to mark the 2 Year Anniversary of Katrina
Democracy Now!
08/29/2007
Classroom Reader

Letter from European Dissent to The Gambit
European Dissent
03/22/2007
Classroom Reader

Family Pleas for Fair Investigation for Lower 9th Ward Resident Shot by the National Guard Military Police
03/08/2007
Classroom Reader

FFLlC's Annual Membership Meeting! 7 Years of fighting for Justice & Freedom for our Youth!
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
01/13/2007

Blanco Ordered 'Shoot to Kill' instead of 'Search and Rescue'
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition
01/03/2007

Angela Davis Speaks Out For Prisoners of Katrina
Angela Davis
Democracy Now!
12/28/2006

Davis in Town to Promote Human Rights
Nayita Wilson
12/18/2006

Justice on Katrina Time: Hundreds, If Not Thousands, Languish Behind Bars Without Their Day in Court
Ann M. Simmons
12/12/2006

Katrina Amnesty Campaign: on the Status of Prisoners and Public Safety in New Orleans
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance
12/10/2006
Classroom Reader

A Fighting Chance: Giving Poor People Facing the Death Penalty the Facts for their Defense
A Fighting Chance
12/01/2006

Video Clip: "I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back"
Critical Resistance
10/25/2006
Classroom Reader

Abandoned Behind Bars -- Hurricane Katrina's Prisoners
Amber Mcllwain
10/17/2006

Join the Katrina Amnesty Campaign for a Faith-based Forum on Healing and Reconciliation
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
09/12/2006

Louisiana Jails: Prisons or Plantations?
William Jelani Cobb
09/09/2006

In the Aftermath of Katrina: A Bomb for Gilead?
Rev. Dwight Webster
OneLife Institute for Spirtuality and Social Transformation
09/01/2006

Finding Faith in our Darkest Hour
Xochitl Bervera
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
08/30/2006
Classroom Reader

The People Who Were Left to Die: ACLU Report Details Horrors Suffered by Orleans Parish Prisoners in Wake of Katrina
ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union: National Prison Project
08/29/2006

With Jobs to Do, Louisiana Parish Turns to Inmates
Adam Nossiter
07/05/2006

Louisiana Leads the Nation and the World in Lock Up Prisons and Jails: Expensive -- Not Keeping Communities Safer
Justice Policy Institute
Justice Policy Institute
06/17/2006

Down by Law: Orleans Parish Prison Before and after Katrina
Barry Gerharz and Seung Hong
04/01/2006

Guantanamo on the Mississippi
Jordan Flaherty
Safe Streets/Strong Communities
03/11/2006
Classroom Reader

From the Ground Up: Safe Streets/Strong Communities Pushes for Reform of New Orleans Police Department
Deborah Cotton
03/02/2006

Grief and Rage: Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children
Subhash Kateel
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
02/28/2006

Imprisoned in New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty and Tamika Middleton
ColorLines
02/14/2006

FFLIC's Holiday Wishes
Xochitl Bervera
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
12/19/2005

Update From Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
11/13/2005
Classroom Reader

Testimonies of Evacuees
Melinda Beane
Human Rights Watch
10/13/2005

Crime and New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty
Left Turn
10/13/2005

What We Know: The Status of Prisoners and Policing Post Katrina
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance
10/11/2005

Delegation Calls for New Orleans Not Rebuilt on Failed Policies of Incarceration
Tamika Middleton
Critical Resistance
10/01/2005

New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters, Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
09/23/2005

SUPPORT CRITICAL RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS
Critical Resistance
09/13/2005

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Religion

Overview:

The Breach: Bearing Witness
Report of the Katrina National Justice Coalition of the Congressional Black Caucus
09/01/2006

Articles:

Jeremiah Rally to Create City's largest-ever affordable homeownership strategy
Vincent Sylvain
New Orleans Agenda
10/26/2008
Classroom Reader

Faith in the Gulf: Lessons from the Religious Response to Hurricane Katrina
Desiree Evans, Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Institute for Southern Studies
08/28/2008
Classroom Reader

Stepping Out on Faith—Religious Groups Rally to Support the Right to Return
Crystal N. Hill
Advancement Project
04/13/2007

A Mind to Work: Faith Leaders Act against Unjust Working Conditions in New Orleans
Alaina Beverly
Advancement Project
04/13/2007

In the Aftermath of Katrina: A Bomb for Gilead?
Rev. Dwight Webster
OneLife Institute for Spirtuality and Social Transformation
09/01/2006

Protesters still occupying historic New Orleans church rectory
CC Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
03/29/2006

Catholic Hierarchy Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing
CC Campbell-Rock
SF Bayview
03/15/2006

One Year After the Great Flood

Book: After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina
David Dante Troutt, ed.
09/01/2007
Book: What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation
South End Press Collective (editors)
01/02/2007
Classroom Reader
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
01/01/2007
Book: Color of Violence: the Incite! Anthology
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
01/01/2007
Dismantling a Community
Center for Community Change
10/01/2006
Classroom Reader
The Breach: Bearing Witness
Report of the Katrina National Justice Coalition of the Congressional Black Caucus
09/01/2006
Video: When the Levees Broke
Spike Lee
09/01/2006
One Year Later - Common Ground's Accomplishments
Common Ground Collective
08/29/2006
Classroom Reader
Confronting gender after Katrina: An Interview with Shana Griffin
Elena Everett
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
08/25/2006
Classroom Reader
Book: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, editors
08/21/2006
Commemorating Katrina: More than 50 events planned to honor and heal
New Orleans Network
08/21/2006
Classroom Reader
Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises: An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
Oxfam America
08/17/2006
Classroom Reader
Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on The American Gulf Coast
Rita J. King
CorpWatch
08/15/2006
One Year After Katrina: The State of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
08/15/2006
Classroom Reader
Workshop Reader
Abandoned and Abused: Orleans Parish Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
American Civil Liberties Union: National Prison Project
08/09/2006
Classroom Reader
Book: "Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast"
Eric Mann
08/03/2006
Classroom Reader
And Injustice for All: Workers' Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans
Judith Browne-Dianis (Advancement Project,), Jennifer Lai (Advancement Project), Marielena Hincapie (National Immigration Law Center), and Saket Soni (New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition/Advancement Project)
Advancement Project
07/01/2006
Classroom Reader
Race, Poverty and the Environment: A journal for Social and Environmental Justice
Urban Habitat
07/01/2006
Primer on New Orleans Public Housing
Advancement Project
06/27/2006
Storm Cloud Over New Orleans: Is the Big Easy Ready for the Next Big Storm?
Sue Sturgis
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
06/01/2006
In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina
Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Beverly Wright
Russell Sage Foundation
05/01/2006
Classroom Reader
A 20-Point Plan to Destroy Black New Orleans
Robert D. Bullard
SF Bayview
02/01/2006
Classroom Reader
Book: Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Michael Eric Dyson
01/02/2006
The Real Looting: Katrina Exposes a Legacy
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright
10/11/2005
The Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Multiple Disadvantages and Key Assets for Recovery
Eric Williams, Olga Sorokina, Avis Jones-DeWeever, and Heidi Hartmann
Institute for Women's Policy Research
10/01/2005

Section IV: ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND TOOLS

Organized alphabetically by organization and author:

Rethinking Solidarity

Adjoa Jones de Almeida, Dana Kaplan, Paula X. Rojas, Eric Tang, and M. Mayuran Tiruchelvam

Left Turn

05/01/2006
Striving for Solidarity: Lessons in Anti-Racism Organizing

Anti-Racist Working Group

08/01/2007
2007 International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Statement of Arab Solidarity

Arab Resource and Organizing Center

09/01/2007
Hearts on Fire: The Struggle for Justice in New Orleans

Ingrid Chapman

Catalyst Project

09/06/2007
For a Multiracial Black-Led Reconstruction Movement: the New Orleans Solidarity Program

Annual Report 2007

Catalyst Project

10/27/2007
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: Organizing from the Ground Up

Annual Report 2007

Catalyst Project

10/27/2007
Tools For White Anti-Racist Organizing

Catalyst Project

Catalyst Project

09/25/2007
You Can’t Kill the Spirit: A Forum with Three Women Organizers from New Orleans

Catalyst Project

03/09/2007
'Active Listening,' 'Constructive Criticism is an Act of Love!,' and 'Each One Teach One'

Challenging White Supremacy workshop (CWS)

01/01/2005
A Glossary of Some Anti-Racist Terms

Challenging White Supremacy workshop (CWS)

01/01/2001
Solidarity Work Begins at Home

Challenging White Supremacy workshop (CWS)

05/01/2007
Ten Things to Remember: Anti-Racist Strategies for White Student Radicals

Chris Dixon

10/15/2007
European Dissent Accountability Statement

European Dissent

06/29/2006
Letter from European Dissent to The Gambit

European Dissent

03/22/2007
Recommendations for an Antiracist Approach to New Orleans

Pamela Nath with European Dissent

09/25/2007
White Antiracist Organizing in New Orleans: European Dissent after Katrina

Rachel Luft

European Dissent

06/01/2007
Katrina 2nd Anniversary article round up

Heads Up Collective
08/31/2007
From the Ground Up: Race and the Left Response to Katrina

Walidah Imarisha

Left Turn

03/01/2006
Floodlines: Catherine Jones' Blog

Catherine Jones

10/25/2005
Love Letter to Common Ground Clinic

Catherine Jones

12/01/2005
The Work is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community

Catherine Jones

10/11/2007
What I Wish I Knew: My Own Goals for Anti-Racist Practice

Catherine Jones

11/04/2005
Points for Visiting Activists To Consider

Sean, Camilla, Miss Claire, Simon

10/15/2005
New Orleans Stories

Fernando Marti

08/12/2007
Solidarity Not Charity: Racism in Katrina Relief Work

Molly McClure

01/01/2006
Farewell Letter from Curtis Muhammad
Curtis Muhammad, People's Organizing Committee
11/27/2007
Letter from the People of New Orleans to Our Friends and Allies

New Orleans Based Activists

Left Turn

04/01/2007
To Be Of Use

Marge Piercy

01/01/1973
Principles of Partnership, Collaboration, and the Struggle for Justice

Bill Quigley

09/25/2007
Solidarity with Katrina Survivors,’ Flyer. San Francisco

04/07/2007
Seven Steps to Painless Meeting Facilitation

United Students Against Sweatshops

12/01/2006
Letter to Community

Lewis Wallace

08/29/2007

Solidarity Stories

75 STUDENTS FROM 26 COLLEGES TO PLAN CAMPUS PUSH FOR HR 4048
Scott Myers-Lipton
11/12/2008
Classroom Reader

Section V: SOME RESOURCES AND LINKS

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