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Day 1092: Live From Rising Tide 3 – Education Panel

August 23, 2008

Panelists, from L-R: * Clifton Harris – concerned parent and blogger * Dedra Johnson – professor and blogger, author of Sandrine’s Letter to Tomorrow * Leigh Dingerson – Education team leader of the Center for Community Change, editor and contributor to Keeping The Promise?: The Debate Over Charter Schools * Christian Roselund – UTNO Communications, [...]

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Day 1092: Live From Rising Tide 3 – John Barry Keynote

August 23, 2008

This post will be updated until the end of the keynote speech. Oyster is introducing John Barry, the author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood Of 1927 And How It Changed America. It is no surprise that Barry is on almost every board regarding flood control in Louisiana and up in Washington. On top [...]

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Day 1091: The Night Before Rising Tide

August 22, 2008

Although I want to shut it off and fall asleep on my keyboard, Rebirth Brass Band’s upbeat ”Four Leaf Clover” is playing in the background.  I am exhausted from this week, but it’s time to gear up for this weekend’s Rising Tide conference.  Go over to VirgoTex‘s and read why what happened here three years ago still [...]

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Day 1075: Karen Gadbois In The Levee

August 6, 2008

First it was the Wall Street Journal, followed by the Gambit (1, 2) and then, off and on and when they absolutely-positively could not avoid mentioning her, the Times-Picayune. Finally, New Orleans’s own version of The Onion has discovered and used the phrase “local activist, Karen Gadbois” in a cover article. It’s a journalistic miracle! [...]

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Day 1065: It’s Black And Gold Forever

July 27, 2008

The FYYFF: It’s Black And Gold Forever fundraiser party for the Ashley Morris Memorial Fund was set to start at 8pm. Nothing starts on time here, but I was worried about being horribly late when D and I entered One Eyed Jack’s at a quarter to ten. Fortunately for us, the Arena Bowl crowds, the [...]

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Day 729: Rising Tide II – Kudos From New York

August 27, 2007

I’d like to take this moment to let everyone know that the previous post was my own critical view of myself and our group as bloggers and activists, and what more the NOLA bloggers can stand to accomplish in the way of civic activism.  It is my blog after all, and I think about what I want [...]

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Day 729: Rising Tide II – Personal Lessons Learned

August 27, 2007

“If what you did yesterday still seems big today, your goals for tomorrow aren’t big enough.” — Fu Yu Ling, ca. 900 B.C. Thanks to everyone for coming to help us mark the second anniversary of this catastrophe, which continues through today. Most of my pictures from the conference are at the Rising Tide Conference [...]

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Day 726: Panel – The Way We Write Now

August 25, 2007

Do New Orleanian authors write differently now than they did before the storm and flood? I’d like to think that the style remains the same and the stories a mixture of new and old. What would this ongoing incident do to that which a writer sources from? Sam Jasper writes from more of an activist [...]

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Day 726: Dave Zirin Can Come Back Any Time

August 25, 2007

Two salient points: 1.  Stadium construction is not a substitute for urban policy. 2.  Municipalization of sports teams is how it should be, as in the case of the Green Bay Packers (w00t!).  “They’re not the Steinbrenner Yankees, they’re the New York Yankees.”  It would be easy for New Orleans’s football team to be the [...]

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Day 726: Liveblogging Repository

August 25, 2007

I will post this morning’s notes (which I took on old-fashioned paper with an old-fashioned pen) later this afternoon, cross my heart – in fact, I will update this post. Until then, read these folks. Politics Panel – Ray in New Orleans: Sucky liveblogging RTII Levees & Pumps Session – Mark Folse at the Rising [...]

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