Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Exposing Unconstitutional Police Practices From New York to New Orleans

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By Alison McCrary As violent crime continues to surge and dozens of New Orleans police offers are under indictment, investigation, or have a...
Friday, October 8, 2010

New Orleans’ Food Service Workers Organize and Advocate for Fair Workplace Conditions

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By Alison McCrary Food service workers at Tulane University walked off the job at 6:00 AM yesterday, to demonstrate their outrage over the...
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Mississippi Attorney Jailed For Not Reciting Pledge of Allegiance

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On Wednesday, October 6, in Tupelo, Mississippi, Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn jailed attorney Danny Lampley because Lampley declined...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

NOPD Officers Abusing Authority to Demand ID's

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From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana : Acting on complaints from New Orleans residents, today the ACLU of Louisiana sent a request to Su...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Save UNO Coalition Rally and Block Party for Higher Education This Wednesday

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From our friends at the Save UNO Coalition : The Save UNO Coalition, a group of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends of the Univer...
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Report Demonstrates Why New Orleans Needs a Smaller Jail

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From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana : ACLU, Brennan Center Reports Expose Resurgence Of Debtors’ Prisons As New Orleanians are calling...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Honduran Coup Leader Meets With New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Tulane University President Scott Cowen, and Other Local Leaders

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Civic and political leaders in New Orleans took steps this month towards support and recognition of the illegal and anti-democratic governm...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Wishing for Reality, Not for Another Disaster, By Wadner Pierre

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MSNBC announced that it will be hosting presentation entitled “Wishing for a Disaster” based on the recovery of New Orleans. It has been ...

You Must Show Your Work: NORD Reform and NOLA Civic Engagement

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By Tracie L. Washington, Esq For several weeks now, LJI has been wrangling with the NORD Charter change proposition issue. Whether NORD n...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Chicago Parents Hold Sit-In to Protest Privatization of Public Schools

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New Orleans Recovery School District Superintendent Paul Vallas, as well as US Education Secretary Arne Duncan, used to run the Chicago Publ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Jackson City Council Passes Anti-Profiling Legislation

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From our friends at the ACLU of Mississippi : JACKSON - The ACLU of Mississippi announced today that it applauds the Jackson City Council ...

Voters in Washington DC and New York City Reject Charter Schools

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New Orleans, ground zero of the charter school movement, will soon face a decision on whether the city's public schools will return to l...

A Small, Good Week, By Tom Lowenstein

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From Innocence Project New Orleans Policy Director Tom Lowenstein, via Friends of Justice : The strangest thing about the work we do at In...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Haitian Women Struggle to Keep Hope Alive, By Wadner Pierre

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GONAIVES, Sep 20, 2010 (IPS) - "I'm going to do everything possible to raise my daughter. My daughter is my future. And I can s...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Struggle for New Orleans Public Schools

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The struggle over the fate of New Orleans' Public Schools is heating up. On Tuesday, September 21, a coalition of organizations; includ...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force Sponsors Ceasefire March

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From our friends at the New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force : New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force and Sile...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

New Funding for HIV Prevention in New Orleans

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From our friends at the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES) and Brotherhood, Incorporated : Please join IWES and Brotherhood at...

More History Denial on Katrina Recovery, By Lance Hill

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In the days before the fifth anniversary of Katrina, the New Orleans Times-Picayune published their first full story on the Bring New Orlean...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Save The Date: BESE Announces Meeting on the Fate of New Orleans Public Schools and the Recovery School District

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Louisiana Justice Institute, Children's Defense Fund, and other partners will convene a “Meeting before the Meeting” in early October an...

One Year After Justice Department Letter, No Changes at Orleans Parish Prison

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From our friends at ACLU of Louisiana : ACLU Urges Sheriff Gusman and Justice Department to Report Progress One year after the U.S. Departm...