For poor communities of color in the post-Katrina South—and all across America—citizenship isn't enough. Their real fight is for first-class citizenship.
Archive for August, 2010
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"I'm hopeful that five years from now we’ll see reduced incarceration rates, more community services, and increased political power for low-income communities and communities of color in the Deep South," says Dana Kaplan of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana in this interview.
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Is Estonia, with its conservative policies on citizenship and language, "paying back" ethnic Russians for what the USSR—especially under Stalin—did to the native population?
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, civil rights, equality, Estonia, minority rights, Russia, statelessness
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Today we remember the people whose lives were lost or inalterably changed when the levees failed in New Orleans five years ago. We also thank those who have dedicated their lives to rebuilding the city and its communities since.
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Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen, both Open Society Katrina Media Fellows, launched a mobile exhibition of large-scale mural photographs called Those Who Fell Through the Cracks.
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This weekend will mark five years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the levees broke in New Orleans. As the date approaches, we remember and mourn the many lives and homes that were lost. We also honor the inspiring work of so many in New Orleans to rebuild and transform this...
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A sordid saga of cross-border kidnapping, a kangaroo trial, and high-speed executions shows that the president of Equatorial Guinea takes his own solemn promises to reform no more seriously than anyone else.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: anticorruption, Equatorial Guinea, Kenneth Hurwitz, obiang, unesco
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Now is the time for New Orleans Mayor Landrieu to signal a clean break from the policies (or lack thereof) of his predecessors, and of longstanding but ill-serving local laws relating to culture.
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The Vera Institute of Justice is working with New Orleans city government and community leaders to help reinvent—rather than rebuild—the city’s criminal justice system. We asked Jon Wool, Director of Vera’s New Orleans office, about his work.
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A reporter offers a timely reminder to defend against "Katrina Shorthand"—the tendency to describe 8/29 as a hurricane, obscuring the fact that poorly designed levee walls caused the flooding in most of New Orleans.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: Hurricane Katrina, levee failures, Mark Moseley, New Orleans, Ray Lang, The Lens