1. SOME HISTORY OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE KATRINA

   • Prelude
   • A Bit of History
   • Some Examples of Resistance since the 1970's
   • More Readings on History

2. "THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"

   • Voices of Survival and Solidarity During the Great Flood
   • Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex
   • Institutions: Where There is Oppression, There is Resistance
     • Economy
     • Education
     • Elections
     • Environment
     • Foundations
     • Health
     • Housing
       • FEMA
       • Louisiana Recovery Authority
       • New Orleans 'Planning' Perspectives & Processes
       • New Orleans East
       • The Ninth Ward
       • Tenants Rights in 'Private' Housing
       • Tenants Rights in Public Housing
     • Media, Polls, Ideology, Culture
     • Prison Industrial Complex
     • Religion
   • One Year After the Great Flood

3. SOME EXAMPLES OF GRASSROOTS RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA

   • Some Perspectives on Grassroots Racial Justice Resistance
   • Some Grassroots Racial Justice Organizations in New Orleans

4. ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND TOOLS

   • Perspectives and Tools (primarily for white activists)
   • Solidarity Stories: mostly from the San Francisco Bay View (in progress)

5. SOME RESOURCES AND LINKS

   • Some Grassroots Racial Justice Organizations in New Orleans
   • Some Web Resources for Information and Action
   • Some 'One Year After Katrina' Reports and Analyses. August, 2006
   • Some 'Two Years After Katrina' Reports and Analyses. August, 2007
   • General Background
     • Books
     • Some Films Videos & DVD’s
     • A Few CD’s
     • Some Anti-Racist Training Workshops
     • Some Curriculum Guides for K-12 Educators
     • Some Early Info from Grassroots Relief Groups
     • Some Early Katrina Timelines

ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO BROWSE THE READER:

1. Alphabetical Listing of Some Grassroots Racial Justice Organizations in New Orleans Since Katrina
2. Chronological Listing of All Articles
3. Alphabetical Listing of Authors

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

A. Prelude

B. A Bit of History

C. Some Examples of Resistance since the 1970's

D. More Readings on History

Section II: "THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"

A. Voices of Survival and Solidarity During the Great Flood

B. Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex

For More Reading on the Disaster Industrial Complex:

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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