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Flaherty: World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine in Tunisia
Znet Article, April, 05 2013
Jordan Flaherty
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An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia
Flaherty: World Social Forum Opens in Tunisia
Znet Article, March, 28 2013
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum
Flaherty: Arson Attack on Women's Health Organization in New Orleans
Znet Article, May, 27 2012
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Women With a Vision (WWAV), a New Orleans advocacy and service organization that provides health care and other support for poor women of color, was the victim of a break-in and arson
Flaherty: From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin
Znet Article, March, 29 2012
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Current policing makes us less safe
Vohra: Race, Gender, and Occupy
Znet Article, March, 22 2012
Sweta Vohra
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Discussions around race and gender, far from weakening the movement, have lent it strength and made organising more accountable to the communities most affected by the economic crisis
Flaherty: Six Years After Katrina, The Battle for New Orleans Continues
Znet Article, August, 30 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
The vast changes that have taken place in New Orleans since Katrina have had little to do with weather, and everything to do with political struggles
Flaherty: A Mother's Art Brings Attention to Wrongly Convicted Young Men
Znet Article, August, 12 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Seeing her son locked away caused Phipps’ to use her art as both activism and release
Flaherty: NOPD Verdict Reveals Post-Katrina History
Znet Article, August, 09 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Five New Orleans police officers were convicted on Friday of civil rights violations for killing unarmed African Americans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Flaherty: New Orleans Police Violence Trial Begins
Znet Article, June, 28 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
It is a shocking case of police brutality that has already redefined this city’s relationship to its police department
Flaherty: Jena Six Activist Convicted, Faces Decades in Prison
Znet Article, April, 02 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Civil rights activist Catrina Wallace, who received national acclaim for her central role in organizing protests around the Jena Six case, was convicted today of three counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
Flaherty: Race and Politics in a Rural Louisiana Town Attract National Attention
Znet Article, March, 29 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
A legal dispute in the rural Louisiana town of Waterproof has attracted the attention of national civil rights organizations and activists.
Flaherty: One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer
Znet Article, January, 13 2011
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in need.
Flaherty: The Incarceration Capital of the US
Znet Article, November, 10 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
With 3,500 beds in a city of about 350,000 residents, Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) is already the largest per capita county jail of any major US city.
Flaherty: On the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina, Displacement Continues
Znet Article, August, 28 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Poet Sunni Patterson is one of New Orleans' most beloved artists. She has performed in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US, and frequently appears on television and radio, from Democracy Now to Def Poetry Jam. When she performs her poems...
Flaherty: A Movement Rises in Arizona
Znet Article, July, 30 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
Three months ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the notorious SB 1070, a bill that put her state at the forefront of a movement to intensify the criminalization of undocumented immigrants.
Flaherty: Danziger Bridge is Just the Beginning
Znet Article, July, 16 2010
Jordan Flaherty
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Six New Orleans Police Charged in Post-Katrina Killings, Activists Say Deeper Change is Needed.
Flaherty: Cultural Extinction
Znet Article, June, 16 2010
Jordan Flaherty
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Louisiana’s coastal communities fear they may never recover from BP’s drilling disaster
Flaherty: Drug Bust or Racist Revenge?
Znet Article, May, 16 2010
Jordan Flaherty
Flaherty's ZSpace page
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
Flaherty's ZSpace page
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
Flaherty's ZSpace page
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.
