Legacies: Racism and Resistance in New Orleans Before and After Katrina
A Reader for Katrina solidarity classes and reading groups
Section I: SOME HISTORY OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE KATRINA
A. Prelude
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Date Published: December 31, 1987
B. A Bit of History
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Date Published: June 10, 2005
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Organization: Katrina Reader TeamDate Published: July 25, 2007
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Organization: Institute for Southern StudiesDate Published: October 26, 2008
C. Some Examples of Resistance since the 1970's
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1992
(Ed: The pictures in this calendar give a visual snapshot of the powerful tradition of grassroots racial justice organizing in New Orleans that has been recreated in the aftermath of Katrina.)
Section II: "THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"
“They left us here to die, and when we didn’t die, they tried to drive us out of our homes, and when we didn’t leave, they said they would knock our houses down,” said Mama Dee. Mama Dee is a community activist and elder who has lived her entire life in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward.
(From ‘Fighting for the right to rebuild New Orleans,’ by Karen Shain. SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW. Oct. 12, 2005.)
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Organization: Human Rights CoalitionDate Published: January 1, 2005
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: September 1, 2005
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: September 11, 2005
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: September 4, 2005
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Date Published: September 16, 2005
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Date Published: September 23, 2005
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Date Published: October 25, 2005
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Organization: New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial JusticeDate Published: November 27, 2005
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Organization: SF BayviewDate Published: February 1, 2006
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Organization: People's Institute for Survival and BeyondDate Published: March 8, 2006
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Organization: Safe Streets/Strong CommunitiesDate Published: March 11, 2006
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Organization: Russell Sage FoundationDate Published: May 1, 2006
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Organization: Advancement ProjectDate Published: July 1, 2006
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Date Published: August 3, 2006
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Organization: American Civil Liberties Union: National Prison ProjectDate Published: August 9, 2006
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Date Published: August 30, 2006
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: September 3, 2006
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Organization: Center for Community ChangeDate Published: October 1, 2006
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Date Published: January 2, 2007
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Date Published: July 1, 2007
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Organization: Democracy Now!Date Published: August 29, 2007
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Organization: Institute for Southern StudiesDate Published: August 29, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: August 29, 2007
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Date Published: August 31, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: September 10, 2007
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Organization: Justice For New OrleansDate Published: December 17, 2007
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Date Published: August 27, 2008
WHERE THERE IS OPPRESSION, THERE IS RESISTANCE
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: September 11, 2005
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Organization: People's Institute for Survival and BeyondDate Published: September 6, 2005
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Organization: Malcolm X Grassroots MovementDate Published: September 13, 2005
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Date Published: September 18, 2005
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Date Published: September 18, 2005
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: September 20, 2005
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Organization: People's Institute for Survival and BeyondDate Published: September 29, 2005
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: October 8, 2005
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Date Published: October 18, 2005
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Date Published: October 25, 2005
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Date Published: November 1, 2005
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: November 1, 2005
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: November 1, 2005
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Date Published: November 13, 2005
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Date Published: November 26, 2005
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Organization: SF BayviewDate Published: November 30, 2005
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Date Published: December 4, 2005
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: December 8, 2005
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Date Published: December 28, 2005
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Organization: SF BayviewDate Published: January 11, 2006
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Organization: Black CommentatorDate Published: January 19, 2006
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: March 1, 2006
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Organization: Survivors' VillageDate Published: March 15, 2006
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: March 19, 2006
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: March 31, 2006
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Date Published: April 1, 2006
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: May 22, 2006
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Organization: Latino Health Outreach ProjectDate Published: June 26, 2006
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Date Published: August 9, 2006
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Organization: Gulf Coast Reconstruction WatchDate Published: August 15, 2006
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Date Published: August 21, 2006
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Organization: Justice For New OrleansDate Published: August 22, 2006
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: August 25, 2006
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Date Published: August 25, 2006
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Date Published: August 25, 2006
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: August 29, 2006
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: August 29, 2006
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: September 16, 2006
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Date Published: September 17, 2006
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Organization: Center for Community ChangeDate Published: October 1, 2006
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: October 12, 2006
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: October 15, 2006
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Organization: Critical ResistanceDate Published: October 25, 2006
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Organization: Critical ResistanceDate Published: December 6, 2006
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Organization: Gulf Coast Civic Works ProjectDate Published: December 9, 2006
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Organization: Critical ResistanceDate Published: December 9, 2006
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Organization: Critical ResistanceDate Published: December 10, 2006
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Date Published: January 1, 2007
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Organization: Common Ground Health ClinicDate Published: January 6, 2007
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Organization: Advancement ProjectDate Published: January 12, 2007
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Organization: Survivors' VillageDate Published: January 15, 2007
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Organization: Democracy Now!Date Published: January 31, 2007
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Organization: Gulf Coast Reconstruction WatchDate Published: February 1, 2007
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Date Published: February 1, 2007
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: February 1, 2007
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Organization: INCITE! Women of Color Against ViolenceDate Published: February 1, 2007
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Organization: People's Organizing CommitteeDate Published: February 11, 2007
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Organization: People's Organizing CommitteeDate Published: February 15, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: March 1, 2007
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: March 1, 2007
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Organization: Survivors' VillageDate Published: March 3, 2007
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Organization: Left TurnDate Published: March 7, 2007
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Organization: People's Organizing CommitteeDate Published: March 8, 2007
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: March 14, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: March 15, 2007
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Organization: Survivors' VillageDate Published: April 7, 2007
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Date Published: May 3, 2007
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Date Published: June 4, 2007
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Date Published: June 28, 2007
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Date Published: July 1, 2007
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Organization: Advocates for Environmental Human RightsDate Published: July 14, 2007
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Organization: Safe Streets/Strong CommunitiesDate Published: July 29, 2007
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Organization: Left TurnDate Published: August 16, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: August 20, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: August 20, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: August 29, 2007
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Date Published: August 30, 2007
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Date Published: September 25, 2007
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Organization: Left TurnDate Published: September 27, 2007
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Organization: Common Ground CollectiveDate Published: October 1, 2007
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Organization: Advancement ProjectDate Published: October 3, 2007
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Organization: Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight CoalitionDate Published: October 6, 2007
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Date Published: October 7, 2007
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Organization: Common Ground Health ClinicDate Published: October 14, 2007
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Date Published: October 14, 2007
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Organization: Safe Streets/Strong CommunitiesDate Published: October 27, 2007
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Date Published: November 7, 2007
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Date Published: November 21, 2007
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Organization: Safe Streets/Strong CommunitiesDate Published: December 12, 2007
SOME EXAMPLES OF GRASSROOTS RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA
(This list is by no means exhaustive!!!)
(Editorial note: This material is taken mostly from the organizations’ websites in September, 2007. Please help us update it! Click on Contact Us to get in touch. The information here focuses on the organizations’ mission and vision statements, and often appears in the ‘About Us’ sections of their websites. To learn more about their histories, philosophies of organizing, past and current campaigns, and actions you can take to support their work, please check their websites often! Hopefully, you will be inspired by all the work they are doing to ensure the Right of Return of all Katrina ‘internally displaced persons’ and the Right to Rebuild their communities with justice and self-determination.)
(Editorial note: This material is taken mostly from the organizations’ websites in September, 2007. Please help us update it! Click on Contact Us to get in touch. The information here focuses on the organizations’ mission and vision statements, and often appears in the ‘About Us’ sections of their websites. To learn more about their histories, philosophies of organizing, past and current campaigns, and actions you can take to support their work, please check their websites often! Hopefully, you will be inspired by all the work they are doing to ensure the Right of Return of all Katrina ‘internally displaced persons’ and the Right to Rebuild their communities with justice and self-determination.)
Some Perspectives on Grassroots Racial Justice Resistance
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Democracy Now
August 31st, 2007: ‘Jailed in New Orleans Two Weeks Before Katrina;’ ‘The Danziger Bridge Killings: How New Orleans Police Gunned Down Civilians Fleeing the Flood;’ and ‘The Resilience of the People is What Carries This City Forward: Poet Sunni Patterson & Hip Hop Artist Truth Universal Reflect on New Orleans Two Years after Katrina.’
August, 30, 2007: ‘New Orleans Hit by Another ‘Hurricane of Racism, Greed and Corruption’ -Community Activist Malik Rahim;’ ‘The Red Cross has basically stolen money from victims in New Orleans’ -People’s Hurricane Relief Fund blasts Katrina Aid Program;’ and ‘The Privatization of Education: How New Orleans went from a public school system to a charter-school city.’ - Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch
Blueprint for Gulf Renewal: The Katrina Crisis and a Community Agenda for Action. August/September, 2007. (The report includes interviews with organizers in 15 grassroots racial justice organizations in New Orleans, other regions in Louisiana, and in Mississippi.) A Project of the Institute for Southern Studies/Southern Exposure. - Catherine Jones, excerpts from ‘Floodlines,’ her on line journal, from April 4 through May 25, 2007.
http://floodlines.blogspot.com - Jordan Flaherty, ‘Rebuilding Resistance: Organizing Lessons From One Year After the Devastation of New Orleans,’ LEFT TURN MAGAZINE, Issue #22. Oct/Nov. 2006. http://www.leftturn.org
Some Grassroots Racial Justice Organizations in New Orleans:
Section IV: ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND TOOLS
Organized alphabetically by organization and author:
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10/25/2005
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12/01/2005
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08/12/2007
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