Sep 17, 2009
A Portrait of LOUISIANA: Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
A new report commissioned by Oxfam America and the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, with funding from Oxfam America and the Foundation for the Mid South, shows Louisiana ranks 49th among U.S. states and Washington, D.C. on the American Human Development Index, with wide disparities within the state. This new study examines disparities by parish, race, and gender in Louisiana, and calls for action to address the acute human vulnerability that persists today, four years after Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.measureofamerica.org/louisiana/
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Sep 15, 2009
Fox's Glenn Beck has been on a derisive media campaign calling President Obama "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people."
Please support http://www.ColorOfChange.org's call for advertisers to stop sponsoring his show.
http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/
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Sep 14, 2009
The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, the Foundation for the Mid-South, the American Human Development Project and Oxfam America will release “A Portrait of Louisiana: the Louisiana Human Development Report 2009,” just the second state-specific report by the American Human Development Project. The report provides a state-wide, parish-by-parish assessment of such indicators as lifespan, earnings, incidence of diabetes, high school completion, crime, birth weight, and more, and will help policymakers, business and non-profit leaders, the media and people around the state understand Louisiana’s current circumstances within a clear comparative and statistical framework. Read More |
Sep 07, 2009
Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism; A Love Story! premiered last night at the Venice Film Festival to the largest standing ovation at Venice in memory. We were proud to be there as this film, which exposes capitalism as Democracy's biggest enemy, began its journey. When profits are valued over all else, including human life, that is an environment where the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of people, as happened in Katrina, and the story told in Trouble the Water, can happen. This can change. Click through to see the trailer for Capitalism: A Love Story! Read More |
Sep 04, 2009
National Low Income Housing Coalition alerts members to discrimination in NOLA voucher program. Read More |
Aug 29, 2009
This weekend marks the fourth anniversary of the failure of the levees in New Orleans and the devastation of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. Today we are delivering more than 20,000 letters to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi demanding that Washington finally take real action in the region.
These are the letters that fans of Trouble the Water have written to Congress in our campaign with a national coalition, led by the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project.
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Aug 28, 2009
On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane, the Katrina Information Network has five actions you can take now to keep a just recovery on the public agenda. Read More |
Aug 26, 2009
Supporters of the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act (HR 2269) will gather for a rally and press conference on the 4th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in front of Speaker Pelosi's office on Friday, August 28 at noon to demand passage of this federal bill.
Specifically, Speaker Pelosi will be asked to take two small, but powerful actions:
1. To request that she asks the five committee chairs where the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act sits to report back to her office on HR 2269 before the Congressional winter recess;
2. To sign on as a co-sponsor HR 2269.
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Aug 25, 2009
Lone Star Legal Aid Workshop in Houston this Thursday:
Contractor Crackdown: DEALING WITH home repair scammers—FREE legal HELP AND open to public on August 27
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Aug 20, 2009
Become a Ms. Foundation Outrageous Activist, and you could win a DVD of Trouble the Water! Read More |
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