Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. May 20, 2008. Indian guest workers rebuilding New Orleans are striking to protest abusive work conditions.
Chris Mooney, Science Progress. April 13, 2008. We ought to be outraged at how poor a job our government is doing when it comes to processing information about global warming.
Michael Grunwald, Grist.org. April 2, 2008. With the help of Congress, they've been ripping off Americans long before the Katrina debacle, and no one's willing to stop them.
Jeffrey Buchanan, AlterNet. January 30, 2008. This is an American human rights crisis that certainly deserves to be addressed as Americans choose their next president.
Naomi Klein, Huffington Post. December 22, 2007. The shameless exploitation of poor New Orleans residents to privatize public infrastructure is being enforced by violence and tasers.
Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. December 11, 2007. 1,200 activists and experts converged on New Orleans for the Drug Policy Alliance conference, where AlterNet won a prize for its drug war coverage.
Christine Cupaiuolo, The American Prospect. September 28, 2007. FOX's new drama portrays a post-Katrina New Orleans. But in reducing its tragedy to a cop drama, have the real lessons been lost?
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. September 5, 2007. Bush flew from the bayou to Baghdad as a People's Hurricane tribunal in New Orleans put every level of government on trial. What was the verdict?
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. August 29, 2007. Tens of thousands of families in the Gulf Coast region are still without homes, and there is something very specific you can do to help.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. August 28, 2007. There is something very specific you can do to help. Sign the petition urging the Senate to pass Chris Dodd's Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. August 27, 2007. Two years after Katrina, the Gulf Coast is still recovering, and thousands of personal stories remain unheard. This is one of those stories.
Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor. February 27, 2007. With 70 new homes in the devastated Upper Ninth Ward, Musicians' Village -- a neighborhood by musicians, for musicians -- is the city's largest redevelopment project to date.
Robin Templeton, AlterNet. February 16, 2007. Tourists arriving in New Orleans for the long Mardi Gras weekend will find the city loaded with law enforcement and furious local residents who say that the cops aren't doing anything to halt the city's soaring murder rate.
Amanda Spake, The Nation. February 15, 2007. FEMA-supplied trailers for displaced Gulf Coast residents have been found to emit formaldehyde vapors, causing serious health problems.
Kellie Lunney, The American Prospect. February 8, 2007. There is no shortage of "green" plans for rebuilding New Orleans. But what does sustainability mean to people without a roof over their heads?
Jordan Flaherty, AlterNet. January 18, 2007. The city is an international symbol of neglect and racism. But the federal government isn't the only one to blame.