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Showing videos filed under: Sam Jackson
Four Years After Katrina: Housing Rights in New Orleans
August 5, 2009Post-Katrina New Orleans has seen a steep rise in its homeless population, the demolition of public housing, and one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Does New Orleans reflect what's happening in the rest of the country? Tiffany Gardner, Human Right to Housing Director at theNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Sam Jackson of Mayday New Orleans, and Leilani Farha, co-leader of the International Advisory Group on Forced Evictions on the housing crisis in New Orleans.On the Ground in Honduras, Housing Rights in New Orleans, and 450,000 Doctors Speak Out
August 4, 2009News from Honduras has been in short supply even though the standoff between ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti continues. So what’s happening on the ground? And why aren’t we hearing about it? Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films and journalist Sandra Cuffe on recent political developments. Then, the housing crisis in New Orleans. Is it a window onto the country at large? Finally Brave New Films and 450,000 doctors on why healthcare reform matters.Meltdown, Movement and MILK
December 11, 2008America's Defense Meltdown. The Pentagon is moving to get three of the four combat brigades requested by commanders into Afghanistan by summer. We'll discuss that move and others, with TIM WEINER, JEREMY SCAHILL and the editor of a new collection of former military personel writing about America's Defense Meltdown. Then, he was't the candidate.GRIT on the Gulf Roundtable: Rebuilding New Orleans
August 20, 2008Our roundtable discusses the housing crisis on the Gulf Coast.GRIT on the Gulf: Rebuilding New Orleans, Ned Sublette, and Red State Road Trip
August 19, 2008Our panel takes up the crisis in public housing, in New Orleans and beyond. Author and musician Ned Sublette remembers Southern life, history and culture, and gives us a song. Red State Road Trip, three years after Katrina.
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