Rebuilding New Orleans
Grit TV : Racism & Discrimination
Activist Judith Browne-Dianis explains why progressives should care about public housing.
2008
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Homeless in New Orleans
Lizzy Ratner : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.
2006
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Undone by Neoliberalism
Adolph Reed Jr. : Economic Policy
Before the storm, neoliberalism shaped the social and economic inequities of New Orleans; after Hurricane Katrina, it worsened them by making government the tool of corporations and investors.
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New Orleans Forsaken
Gary Younge : Racism & Discrimination
One year later, how will we come to terms with what happened when Hurricane Katrina washed up the disenfranchised most people, including the President, have tried to forget?
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A Right to Food?
Frances Moore Lappé : Food & Nutrition
Hunger is a violation of basic rights: a right to food, but more important, Bolivian and Brazilian experience suggests, a right to power.
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The Sunkist Utopian
One hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair exposed the meatpacking industry. Three new books expose Sinclair as an activist dreamer with a messianic streak.
2005
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Katrina Lives
Susan Straight : African-Americans
African-Americans were at the center of hurricane destruction and suffered the hardest and the longest--stranded first in their segregated neighborhoods and now stuck in motels or cars, waiting for their FEMA checks.
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Students Confront Sweatshops
Richard Appelbaum & Peter Dreier : Student Movements
With a new wave of activism against sweatshops sweeping college campuses, student interest in the morality of their clothing choices can set a standard for the rest of us.
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Beyond Shelters
Michael Tisserand : Urban Issues
Advocacy groups like ACORN want New Orleanians to play a role in the rebuilding of the community they had to leave. The biggest issue so far: getting refugees of the storm back home.
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Hurricane Gumbo
Mike Davis & Anthony Fontenot : Environment
The Cajun and Creole folks of Ville Platte, LA, learned long ago not to rely on the government for help. It the wake of hurricanes they launched a homemade rescue-and-relief effort to save their community.
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Building a New Table
People of the Gulf Coast should build community networks to ensure they have a voice in rebuilding discussions usually limited to real-estate developers and government officials.
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'One Nation, Fragmented'
It took a Gulf Coast hurricane to make Americans aware of the poverty in their own backyard. Now it's time for public policies that end racial segregation, so that the poor in this country will not continue to suffer.
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The Power of Outrage
A nation's conscience is stirred by the abandonment of the poor and the frail: This may be the one bright spot of the man-made disaster on the Gulf Coast. Eric Foner gives a history lesson.
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Another World Turns
Imagining the possibilities at the World Social Forum.
2003
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Let Freedom Roll
Julie Quiroz-Martínez : Immigration to the US
Immigrants hit the road for civil rights.
2002
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Monterrey and the World
Did Monterrey represent an authentic break with the Washington consensus?
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Letter From Pôrto Alegre
Read daily dispatches from the World Social Forum in Brazil.
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Reforming Welfare--Take Two
As Congress revisits the welfare debate, it's time to look at what the law has wrought.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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