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The Privatization of New Orleans: Curtis Muhammad on Tycoons, Trump and Gulf Coast OilWe speak with longtime activist, Curtis Muhammad, a member of the People's Organizing Committee and a native of New Orleans. On the second anniversary of Katrina, Muhammad wrote a farewell letter to the left and progressive forces in the United States. He is leaving the country and heading south. We turn to a conversation with Curtis Muhammad from the People's Organizing Committee. Muhammad is a native of New Orleans and a longtime activist. During the sixties, he was an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and co-founded Community Labor United. After the Hurricane hit, he hit the road tracking the New Orleans refugees into shelters from city to city. He first spoke to him in Jackson Mississippi a few days after the flood.
On the second anniversary of Katrina, Curtis Muhammad wrote a farewell letter to the left and progressive forces in the United States. He is leaving the country and heading south. I visited him on his front porch in New Orleans and asked him why.
* Curtis Muhammad, a native of New Orleans and a longtime activist. He is a member of People's Organizing Committee.
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Fight to Reopen New Orleans Public Housing "Horrible Slow and Tragic"
We speak with Tracie Washington, a lifelong New Orleans resident and civil rights attorney who has sued the city over its housing policies. "Somehow we've got to get to a critical mass of people where they are all telling the government that it's wrong, so that the government will stop on its own," Washington said. "We just can't keep suing every single day. They'll wear us out."
* Tracie Washington, a lifelong New Orleans resident and civil rights attorney who has sued the city over its housing policies. She is President of the Louisiana Justice Institute.
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AMY GOODMAN: Tracie Washington also took part. She's a lifelong New Orleans resident and civil rights attorney who has sued New Orleans over its housing policies. She's President of the Louisiana Justice Institute.
TRACIE WASHINGTON: Housing in New Orleans, no matter what sector and what you're talking about with housing, we have horrible stagnation for those individuals who own homes and are trying to get back home. The slowness of the Road Home program that the state is administering is killing them. I mean, it really is.
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Battle Over Right to Return: Housing Advocates Occupy New Orleans Public Housing Office
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, over 5,000 families in New Orleans lived in public housing. Today, less than one quarter of them have been able to return home. Last Friday, over two dozen public housing residents and activists took over the HANO offices in New Orleans. They demanded that the government reopen the buildings. Two years after Hurricane Katrina drove out more than half of New Orleans, the battle over the right to return rages on. Prior to the hurricane over 5,000 families lived in public housing. Today, less than one quarter of them have been able to return home.
HANO, or the Housing authority of New Orleans, claims that its housing developments are unsuitable for accommodation but public housing advocates and residents argue that the buildings are inhabitable.
Last Friday over two dozen public housing residents and activists took over the HANO offices in New Orleans. They demanded that the government reopen the buildings.
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