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Jordan Flaherty
Black Civil Rights Lawyer in New Orleans Fights Back Against Exploitative Media Organization
10 Mar 2021
Well-meaning whites think its quite alright to steal Black activists’ words – as long as their intentions are good, which is up to them to decide.
Jordan Flaherty
Fighting Sex Trafficking or Punishing Women?<
12 Nov 2014
Fighting Sex Trafficking or Punishing Women? By Jordan Flaherty Originally published at Truthout.org. It's time to ask whether new laws targeting "human trafficking" really protecting women, or do…
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Deon Haywood: “Nine years after Katrina, it’s all about the takeover.”
04 Sep 2014
/*-->*/ An Interview by Jordan Flaherty The meaning of urban recovery is subject to great debate. If the standard of progress celebrates expulsion of the Black and poor and welcoming of the…
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Treme Rewrites Post-Katrina History. And That’s a Good Thing.
11 Feb 2014
by Jordan Flaherty The HBO show Treme has joined the television ancestors. History will decide the series’ ultimate significance – a verdict that cannot be left to the ratings, which are incapable of…
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World Social Forum Highlights Both Unity and Dissent Within Global Movements
02 Apr 2013
by Jordan Flaherty The World Social Forum convened in Tunisia, North Africa, animated by the currents of the Arab Spring. Although the Occupy Wall Street Movement is no longer in the headlines in the…
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Arson Attack on Women's Health Organization in New Orleans
30 May 2012
by Jordan Flaherty Arsonists targeted a grassroots poor women’s health group, in New Orleans. The motive was clearly political. Although some items of value were taken, “many valuables were…
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Two years After the BP Drilling Disaster, Gulf Residents Fear for the Future
25 Apr 2012
by Jordan Flaherty Now is not the time to let BP off the hook for the Gulf oil spill disaster. Environmentalists report “shrimp born without eyes, fish with lesions, and crabs with holes in…
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From NYPD Spying to Trayvon Martin
28 Mar 2012
by Jordan Flaherty Police and their prey are locked in a dance – with the cops leading the morbid shuffle. In New Orleans, where the author hails from, a white officer who just this month…
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Race, Gender, and Occupy
21 Mar 2012
by Sweta Vohra and Jordan Flaherty From it beginnings last year, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been dominated by whites and embroiled in questions of white privilege. Activists of color…
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From Heroes to Villains: NOPD Verdict Reveals Post-Katrina History
10 Aug 2011
by Jordan Flaherty Guilty verdicts against New Orleans cops in the infamous Danziger Bridge murders of innocent Black citizens may lead to far reaching changes in law enforcement – and not just…