New Orleans Residents and Evacuees Blast State of Schools, Housing, Jobs at Mayoral Forum

by Democracy Now (repost)

Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:18AM

The religious organization Jeremiah Group hosted a mayoral forum at the Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans on Saturday. At the event, a number of the city's residents and evacuees posed questions and expressed concerns about the direction of the city on issues ranging from schools to housing to jobs.

Here in New Orleans voters are preparing to head to the polls on April 22nd to pick the next mayor. On Sunday satellite voting booths opened across the state, but efforts to set up out-of-state satellite sites have been blocked. Voting rights activists fear tens of thousands of evacuees will be prevented from taking part in what some have described as the city's most important mayoral election ever.

On Saturday the religious organization Jeremiah Group hosted a mayoral forum at the Trinity Episcopal Church. A number of residents and evacuees posed questions and expressed concerns about the direction of the city on issues ranging from schools to housing to jobs. More interesting than the mayoral candidates responses were the introductory comments by the residents.

* New Orleans mayoral forum

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by more

Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:20AM

We speak with two activists about the current state of New Orleans: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola and Tracie Washington, the director of the NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center.

* Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. He is also the director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola.
* Tracie Washington, director of the NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center.

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