Katrina Disaster
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007MSNBC: Demolition of New Orleans housing approved — Protests precede City Council vote on racially charged controversy
New Orleans IMC: Police Attack Protesters With Mace, Tazers to Keep Them Out of City Hall
First locked out of their homes for more than 2 years, and now locked out of the very City Council meeting in which the […]
Hope springs up in NOLA
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Reuters:Gardeners cultivate hope in battered New Orleans
More NOLA pictures added
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
I’m goofing off some today and am working on uploading more of my pictures from my trips to New Orleans (back in May) and to Portland, OR (back in October).
I’ll post links below as I get them done. . .
Pictures from New Orleans - Katrina damage
Back from NOLA
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
I got in this afternoon from my trip to New Orleans, which turned out to be very enjoyable.
I’ll be posting pictures and more stuff later on, but I’ll tell a few highlights now…
The NACBA convention was very good. I learned a lot, both about the mechanics of bankruptcy law practice in the post-BARF (Bankruptcy […]
In honor of George Bush’s coming visit to Oklahoma
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
CommonDreams.org (reprinted from NewsDay): Our Modern-Day ‘Grapes of Wrath’ - by Les Payne
. . . President George W. Bush was introduced to the film “The Grapes of Wrath” as a student at the Harvard Business School, where he got admitted on his family’s name. “I wanted to give the class a visual reference for poverty […]
Protests planned in Gretna, Louisiana
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005I go this message forwarded on the email discussion list for the Green Party of the United States National Committee and thought it was worth sharing here (one thing I really dig about this statement is this part - “NEVER AGAIN WILL PROPERTY RIGHTS TRUMP PEOPLE’S RIGHTS!” as this is the motto of the NLG […]
In Memory - Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
MSNBC: Rosa Parks, matriarch of civil rights, dies at 92 — Catalyst of U.S. drive for racial equality lived in Detroit
CNN: Parks remembered for her courage, humility — Civil rights pioneer dead at 92
. . . At the time of her arrest, Parks was 42 and on her way home from work as a seamstress.
Years […]
Don’t give money to the Red Cross (but the Salvation Army is ok)
Thursday, September 29th, 2005
GetYourActOn.com: New Orleans to D.C. and back again
. . . Everywhere in D.C. we saw places collecting money for the Red Cross and so took it upon ourselves to break it to all these well intentioned individuals that sending the Red Cross money is as good as putting a match to it. Just in case […]
I did feel sorry for the dude
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Yahoo/AP: Former FEMA Director Blames Others
I really was feeling sorry for ex-FEMA Director Brown, but I gotta say now that those feelings have passed after this. I know that he wants to make sure that the congressional hearing understands that it was not only the federal response that failed NOLA, but to put the blame […]
Abita release Restoration Ale to raise funds for Katrina relief
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005Abita.com: Fleur-de-lis restoration ale to be out soon -a wonderful gesture from this New Orleans area brewery (they were luckily on the otherside of Lake Pontchetrain, so they were able to start brewing again as soon as power was restored in their area), that is donating $1 from every 6-pack of restoration ale to the […]
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