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Flaherty: Drug Bust or Racist Revenge?
Znet Article, May, 16 2010
Jordan Flaherty
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Sheriff Scott Franklin of Jena says he is trying to rid his community of drugs. Critics say he is pursuing revenge against the town’s Black community.
Flaherty: Transgender Community in New Orleans Speaks Out Against Abuse and Discrimination by Police
Znet Article, April, 23 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
New Orleans’ Black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city’s police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause. Activists hope that public outrage ...
Flaherty: Did a White Sheriff and District Attorney Orchestrate a Race-Based Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town?
Znet Article, March, 29 2010
Jordan Flaherty
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In the small northeast Louisiana town of Waterproof, the African-American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from office and arrested as part of an illegal coup carried out by the region's white political power structure.
Flaherty: A New Day for New Orleans?
Znet Article, February, 10 2010
Jordan Flaherty
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In a city consumed by the Superbowl and Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans elected a new mayor last weekend. Mitch Landrieu, the state's current Lieutenant Governor, won 66% of the vote - twice the total of the other ten candidates combined. Lan...
Flaherty: James Perry's Run for Mayor of New Orleans
Znet Article, January, 28 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
On New Year’s Eve in 2004, nine months before Hurricane Katrina hit, bouncers in the Bourbon Street club Razzoo’s killed a Black college student named Levon Jones. The outrage led to near-daily protests outside the club, threats of a Black tou...
Flaherty: New Orleans' Heart is in Haiti
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
New Orleans and Haiti are connected by geography, history, architecture, and family, and news of mass devastation and loss of life in the island nation has hit hard in the Crescent City. Almost every hurricane that has hit our city first brought d...
Flaherty: Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans
Znet Article, January, 14 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
More than half of the people on Louisiana's Sex Offender Registry - which was designed for rapists and child molesters - are indigent women convicted of sex work.
Flaherty: Homeless and Struggling In New Orleans
Znet Article, August, 24 2009
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Crawling through a hole in a fence and walking through an open doorway, Shamus Rohn and Mike Miller lead the way into an abandoned Midcity hospital. They are outreach workers for the New Orleans organization UNITY for the Homeless, and they do thi...
Flaherty: Resistance in Gaza
Znet Article, June, 07 2009
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
The Maqusi Towers in Gaza City look a bit like US housing projects. The neighborhood consists of several tall apartment buildings grouped together in the northern part of town. It is also ground zero for Gaza's growing Hip-Hop community. On a rece...
Flaherty: Media as a Weapon: New Orleans’ 2-Cent
Znet Article, May, 24 2009
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
The video grabs your attention immediately. Young people in the Lower Ninth Ward hold up signs that read: “looter,†“we’re still here,†and “America did this.†Amid empty lots and damaged houses, poet Nik Richard delivers this messag...
Flaherty: Media Crisis and Grassroots Response
Znet Article, March, 26 2009
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Last week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer became the latest major newspaper to cease publishing. As corporate media restructures, can the grassroots survive?
Flaherty: New Orleans Intifada
Znet Article, February, 23 2009
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
New Orleans' immigrant communities are often ignored or under-represented. But through grassroots organizing, legal action, and political lobbying, Asian and Latino organizations in the city have won some important victories. Activists from New Or...
Flaherty: Torture at Angola Prison
Znet Article, January, 28 2009
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home.
Flaherty: New Orleans Pre-Gustav
Video, September, 06 2008
Jordan Flaherty
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As southeast Louisiana braced for Hurricane Gustav, many in New Orleans wondered what evacuation efforts will reveal about changes since Katrina.
Flaherty: Resistance at Angola State Prison
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Jordan Flaherty
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Jordan Flaherty on the fight for the Angola 3.
Flaherty: Three Years After Katrina
Znet Article, August, 26 2008
Jordan Flaherty
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As headlines focus on conventions and running mates, the third anniversary of Katrina offers an opportunity to examine the results of disastrous federal, state and local policy on the people of New Orleans. Several organizations have released rep...
Flaherty: Education Versus Incarceration
Znet Article, April, 27 2008
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Tallulah is a small town in Northeastern Louisiana, one of the poorest regions in the US. It is about 90 miles from the now-legendary town of Jena, and like Jena it is a town with a large youth prison that was closed after allegations of abuse an...
Flaherty: Jena Ignites a Movement
Znet Article, September, 21 2007
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Six courageous families in the small Louisiana town of Jena sent out a call for justice that has now been amplified aro...
Flaherty: K-Ville
Znet Article, September, 14 2007
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Next Monday the Fox network presents a new television show called K-Ville.
Flaherty: Two Years Post-Katrina:
Znet Article, August, 30 2007
Jordan Flaherty
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Two years after the devastation of New Orleans highlighted racism and inequality in the US, the disas...
