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Hurricane Katrina, One Year Later: Democracy Now! Looks Back
to the Days After the Disaster; Breach of Faith: Times-Picayune
Editor Jed Horne on "Neoconservative" Ray Nagin
and "Federal Oppression" in the South; One Year
After Katrina, New Orleans Public Housing Projects Remain
Closed; New Orleans Judge Slated to Release Prisoners Citing
Breakdown in Criminal Justice System
Hurricane Katrina, One Year Later: Democracy Now!
Looks Back to the Days After the Disaster
Today marks the first anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina
disaster. The storm was the most powerful and expensive natural
disaster to hit the United States and one of the deadliest
hurricanes recorded in the country. We play a medley of Democracy
Now!'s coverage of the disaster.
Breach of Faith: Times-Picayune Editor Jed Horne
on "Neoconservative" Ray Nagin and "Federal
Oppression" in the South
On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina we speak with
Jed Horne, an editor at the New Orleans Times-Picayune and
author of "Breach of Faith." Horne says, "Louisiana
is part of the old south...The mayor is a Democrat but could
probably be called a neoconservative. He's as much a believer
in the kind of free market, less-is-more approach to government
as Karl Rove, one of his mentors."
One Year After Katrina, New Orleans Public Housing
Projects Remain Closed
New Orleans activists and residents have condemned the federal
government's refusal to re-open the city's public housing
projects and point out that while tourist areas are being
developed, affordable housing is not being built. Many of
those who have been unable to return home are poor and African
American. We speak with lifelong New Orleans resident and
civil rights lawyer, Tracie Washington.
New Orleans Judge Slated to Release Prisoners Citing
Breakdown in Criminal Justice System
New Orleans judge Arthur Hunter has pledged to begin releasing
prisoners today whose cases have been delayed since Hurricane
Katrina. Many prisoners jailed in New Orleans for over a year
haven't talked to a lawyer or had a day in court. Some have
yet to be charged with a crime. We speak with Katherine Mattes
of Tulane University's Criminal Law Clinic.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
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