Did a Racist Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town Overthrow its Black Mayor and...
by Jordan FlahertyWaterproof, Louisiana, and the region around it may be majority Black, but White Power is determined to prevail by any means necessary. White parish officials replaced the town’s...
View ArticleTransgender Community in New Orleans Claims Police Harassment
by Jordan FlahertyBlack transgender community members in New Orleans are fighting back against systematic police harassment and abuse. People are falsely arrested for prostitution and often charged...
View ArticleJena Justice: Drug Bust or Racist Revenge?
by Jordan FlahertyThe sheriff in Jena, Louisiana is carrying out a vendetta against the town’s Black population, say residents, under the guise of fighting drug dealers. "They will get put in...
View ArticleThe Incarceration Capitol of the US: A Struggle Over the Size of New Orleans’...
by Jordan FlahertyThe people that rule the “new,” post-Katrina New Orleans want an even bigger jail, which is partially explained by the fact that “The more people locked in Orleans Parish Prison, the...
View ArticleOne Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer
by Jordan FlahertyDisaster capitalism is thriving on the misery of Haitians. Politically connected firms have made a lucrative racket out of disaster relief, while promoting corporatist policies....
View ArticleRace and Politics in a Rural Louisiana Town Attract National Attention
by Jordan FlahertyWhat “New South”? In rural Louisiana, the Good Ole Boys still rule in the traditional manner. The Black mayor of the town of Waterproof has spent nearly a year behind bars without...
View ArticleJena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in Prison
by Jordan FlahertyIn what appears to be a Twenty-first Century example of White Power’s revenge, a key personality in the Jena Six case awaits sentencing on drug charges. Catrina Wallace was among a...
View ArticleFrom Heroes to Villains: NOPD Verdict Reveals Post-Katrina History
by Jordan FlahertyGuilty verdicts against New Orleans cops in the infamous Danziger Bridge murders of innocent Black citizens may lead to far reaching changes in law enforcement – and not just in New...
View ArticleRace, Gender, and Occupy
by Sweta Vohra and Jordan FlahertyFrom it beginnings last year, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been dominated by whites and embroiled in questions of white privilege. Activists of color insist...
View ArticleFrom NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin
by Jordan FlahertyPolice and their prey are locked in a dance – with the cops leading the morbid shuffle. In New Orleans, where the author hails from, a white officer who just this month shot a young...
View ArticleTwo years After the BP Drilling Disaster, Gulf Residents Fear for the Future
by Jordan FlahertyNow is not the time to let BP off the hook for the Gulf oil spill disaster. Environmentalists report “shrimp born without eyes, fish with lesions, and crabs with holes in their...
View ArticleArson Attack on Women's Health Organization in New Orleans
by Jordan FlahertyArsonists targeted a grassroots poor women’s health group, in New Orleans. The motive was clearly political. Although some items of value were taken, “many valuables were left...
View ArticleWorld Social Forum Highlights Both Unity and Dissent Within Global Movements
by Jordan FlahertyThe World Social Forum convened in Tunisia, North Africa, animated by the currents of the Arab Spring. Although the Occupy Wall Street Movement is no longer in the headlines in the...
View ArticleTreme Rewrites Post-Katrina History. And That’s a Good Thing.
by Jordan FlahertyThe HBO show Treme has joined the television ancestors. History will decide the series’ ultimate significance – a verdict that cannot be left to the ratings, which are incapable of...
View ArticleDeon Haywood: “Nine years after Katrina, it’s all about the takeover.”
An Interview by Jordan FlahertyThe meaning of urban recovery is subject to great debate. If the standard of progress celebrates expulsion of the Black and poor and welcoming of the affluent and white,...
View ArticleFighting Sex Trafficking or Punishing Women?
Fighting Sex Trafficking or Punishing Women?Originally published at Truthout.org.It's time to ask whether new laws targeting "human trafficking" really protecting women, or do they simply criminalize...
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