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Hard Choices, Right Process: Deal Making in Paterno, Cairo, & New Orleans
Everyone is Happy with the Decision and Crowds around Candidate Vittorio Lo Presti (middle/blue sweater) Paterno After days of discussion sometimes heated and dramatic, the leadership of the La...
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Springfield Rebuilding One Year Later Déjà vu All Over Again
Round table discussion at Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO on rebuilding Springfield One year ago a tornado cut a 6 mile swatch of destruction through Springfield, Massachusetts, and I was meeting with labor...
View ArticleBattle for the Ninth: ACORN, Rebuilding New Orleans & the Lessons of Disaster
As we are gearing up on the 7th Anniversary of hurricane Katrina, here is a look back on ACORN’s role in saving the Ninth Ward and lessons learned on disaster recovery and campaigns. These video’s are...
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Mandate Real Equity after Disasters with Democracy
New Orleans Hurricane Sandy was tragic in every way that one can imagine, but it was also tragic in the same way that all “acts of god” reduce the scale of mankind’s hand in the environment as...
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Locating Housing for the Poor: Good Intentions, Expediency, and Living with...
Robert Moses, seated at left in 1959, used his position as head of the Mayor's Committee on Slum Clearance to mass-produce thousands of units of public housing, often near the shoreline. Quito One...
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LSU and Louisiana Silence the Truth of Corps of Engineers’ Levee Failure...
New Orleans Seven and a half years have ticked off the calendar since Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At this point it is widely conceded, common knowledge,...
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Tom Wooten’s Disaster Myopia: Too Close and Too Far Away
Rock Creek Yes, I still read Katrina books, even as we are fast approaching the beginning of the 9th year since the storm on August 29, 2005. Having written one myself, I respect the small...
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Jazz Fest Highlights the Contractions of New Orleans
bicycle memorial on st. claude New Orleans The annual Jazz and Heritage Festival or Jazz Fest, as it’s universally known in New Orleans, has become a big time event over the years. I had folks...
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Katrina and Maria, More Disaster Anniversaries and Lessons Unlearned
Screenshot of Gwen Adams’ interview on WWLTV https://www.wwltv.com/video/news/lower-9th-ward-13-years-after-katrina/289-8234818 Greenville In New Zealand we were asked, “How is New Orleans?” In...
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Making it Right with Brad Pitt in the Lower Nine
New Orleans The Lower 9th Ward became iconic as part of the story of catastrophe, struggle, and recovery in New Orleans and around the world after Hurricane Katrina. Now there are new candidates...
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