Jim Raby on the former Silver City Dump Site

by WTUL News & Views (New Orleans, LA)

Mon, Dec 22, 2014 7:45AM

28m This month City Council voted in favor of a zoning change sought by the Housing Authority of New Orleans and its developers in order to build a community center on the contaminated soil of the former Silver City Industrial Waste Dump. With us in the studio is Jim Raby president of Walter L Cohen Alumni Association who will give us a history of New Orleans' developers building housing, schools, and community centers for African Americans on former toxic dump sites.

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Jim Raby president of Walter L Cohen Alumni Association visits the studio to tell us about the history of the former Silver City Dump site and the Recovery School District's proposal to build a new Booker T. Washington High School building (to be populated by Cohen students) on that contaminated site. The Housing Authority of New Orleans and its developers are also building on the contaminated soil of the former Silver City Industrial Waste Dump, and on Dec. 11 the City Council voted in favor of granting the zoning change sought by HANO and its developers in order to build a community center there. Jim Raby joined retired Asst. General Honore and his green army in demanding the Council defer the zoning changes. Community members call out the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's pattern of okaying corporate interests over the health and education of New Orleans' African American schoolchildren.

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