Sep 16, 2011
The New Orleans City Planning Commission is leading a series of public meetings to discuss the first draft of the text and maps for the rewrite of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (CZO) as well as proposed amendments to the city's master plan, The Plan for the 21st Century: New Orleans 2030. These meetings will be held in various locations across the city and GNOFHAC encourages you to sign our petition which will be hand delivered to one of these meetings.
https://www.change.org/petitions/show-your-support-for-a-more-integrated-and-livable-new-orleans
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Aug 22, 2011
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-quigley/katrina-pain-index-2011-r_b_932822.html)
Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on the people left behind. It is impossible to understand what happened and what still remains without considering race, gender and poverty. The following offer some hints of what remains.
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Jul 21, 2011
The Trouble the Water Study Guide was designed by high school teachers, university professors, artists and activists, to deepen dialogue about the issues presented in the film in communities throughout the country. It is free with the Educational DVD, which is available here: http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/page/s/eddvd.
And click through this blog for a preview of the introduction by Executive Producers Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes! Read More |
Jul 06, 2011
On Weds July 6, homeowners who alleged discrimination in the post-Katrina housing recovery program announced a settlement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the State of Louisiana. They had alleged in a lawsuit that the formula used to allocate grants to homeowners through the Road Home program had a discriminatory impact on thousands of African-American homeowners. Read More |
Jun 03, 2011
Homelessness remains a daunting problem in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, 5 1/2 years after the nation’s largest housing disaster when the levees failed following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Despite the fact that New Orleans has about 80% of its pre-Katrina population, 9,165 persons now meet the HUD definition of homelessness on any given day in Orleans and Jefferson parishes, compared to 5,360 before Katrina.
Read UNITY of Greater New Orleans' full report here: http://unitygno.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/PIT-2011-Report.pdf
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Apr 25, 2011
TCM Turner Classic Movies will feature "Trouble the Water" in its tribute to Roger Ebert's film festival, Ebertfest on May 2! Other films on Ebert's list of overlooked gems showing on TCM: Erol Morris' "Gates of Heaven" (1978); Paul Cox's Innocence (2000); Jeff Nichols' Shotgun Stories (2007); and Jacques Tati's comedy "Playtime" (1967).
"The film is about Katrina, and even more about the human spirit," Ebert wrote of Trouble the Water. "Kimberly and her husband, Scott, are the life force personified: smart, funny, undefeated, indignant, determined.”
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Apr 21, 2011
Yesterday, America marked the one-year anniversary of the worst oil catastrophe of our time, the BP deepwater drilling disaster. Stephen Bradberry, the 2005 RFK Human Rights Award Laureate and Executive Director of the Alliance Institute, wrote an op-ed about the growing health crisis in the Gulf Coast.
Please read about the urgent situation below.
http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/blog/archives/the_bp_drilling_disaster_one_year_later_--_a_note_from_rfk_center_for_human/#more
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Apr 20, 2011
The daily video of oil hemorrhaging from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico and oiled birds may be, for some, the lasting images of the BP oil drilling disaster, which began with an oil rig explosion that killed 11 people on April 20, 2010. These images will be once again shown on news coverage marking the first year of the worst oil disaster in U.S. history. Read More |
Apr 14, 2011
Where you live impacts how you live. But, too often, policymakers don’t recognize that your race affects your health, too. From heart disease to cancer to child mortality to asthma, people of color are more likely to face significant health challenges – and more likely to die from those challenges. A new report released by Policylink, Why Place and Race Matter, makes the undeniable case that race must be central to the decisions made by policymakers, advocates, and community leaders if we ever hope to close the racial health gap.
http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.6728307/k.58F8/Why_Place___Race_Matter.htm?msource=placematters&auid=8132282 Read More |
Apr 07, 2011
Policylink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell lays out the costs of the drastic budget cuts proposed in the US House of Representatives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/angela-glover-blackwell/budget-cuts-youthbuild-cncs_b_843692.html Read More |
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