Thursday, March 8, 2007
The Hotel
We're staying at the French Quarter Landmark Hotel at 920 Rampart St. on the very north edge of the French Quarter. The accomodations are great and we're within a couple of miles of all of our job sites and within walking distance of tons of places for food and entertainment.
Friday, March 2, 2007
Now in New Orleans....
Orientation: New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice / People's Organizing Committee
Email from Colette Tippy, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice:
On Monday we will be having an orientation- it will take the entire day and will include a tour of New Orleans. We will meet at 9:00 AM at Old Pathway Baptist Church located at 1910 Alabo St in the lower 9th ward of New Orleans. We will have students from two undergraduate schools as well as SHN volunteers this week and it will be a pretty big crowd (around 60 people).
Our first day will be together and we are planning to have daily debriefs to talk about your experiences here in the large group, but for your work there will be a variety of activities we have planned. We will not be working conventional hours because we never do, and we expect you would like to make the biggest impact possible for the short time you are here.
Weekly Weather Report
Here are the highs/lows and details of New Orleans' weather for the upcoming week:
3/3: 68/42, Partly Cloudy
3/4: 53/36, Sunny
3/5: 60/41, Sunny
3/6: 67/50, Sunny
3/7: 71/56, Partly Cloudy
3/8: 75/59, Partly Cloudy
3/9: 72/55, Sunndy
3/10: 76/55, Partly Cloudy
No rain in sight!
3/3: 68/42, Partly Cloudy
3/4: 53/36, Sunny
3/5: 60/41, Sunny
3/6: 67/50, Sunny
3/7: 71/56, Partly Cloudy
3/8: 75/59, Partly Cloudy
3/9: 72/55, Sunndy
3/10: 76/55, Partly Cloudy
No rain in sight!
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Talk by Professor Bill Quigley, Loyola Law School
Wednesday, March 7, 6:30-8:00p.m.
Loyola Law School
526 Pine Street (cross street = St. Charles Ave)
New Orleans, LA 70118
Professor Bill Quigley will give a talk on the current state of affairs in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. Professor Bill Quigley has written several articles, including one that is due out this month, and his talks reflect and build on these articles. For a list of his articles, litigation, and courses by Professor Quigley, see his website here: http://www.loyno.edu/~quigley
...Some info from the site:
Bill Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience. Bill has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Advancement Project, and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as General Counsel for over 15 years.
Bill teaches in the Law Clinic and teaches courses in Law and Poverty and Catholic Social Teaching and Law. His research and writing has focused on living wage, the right to a job, legal services, community organizing as part of effective lawyering, civil disobedience, high stakes testing, international human rights, revolutionary lawyering and a continuing history of how the laws have regulated the poor since colonial times. He has served as an advisor on human and civil rights to Human Rights Watch USA, Amnesty International USA, and served as the Chair of the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Bill received the 2006 Camille Gravel Civil Pro Bono Award from the Federal Bar Association New Orleans Chapter. Bill received the 2006 Stanford Law School National Public Service Award and the 2006 National Lawyers Guild Ernie Goodman award. He has also been an active volunteer lawyer with School of the Americas Watch and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.
Bill is the author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003). In 2003, he was named the Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace by Pax Christi USA and is the recipient of the 2004 SALT Teaching Award presented by the Society of American Law Teachers.
Loyola Law School
526 Pine Street (cross street = St. Charles Ave)
New Orleans, LA 70118
Professor Bill Quigley will give a talk on the current state of affairs in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. Professor Bill Quigley has written several articles, including one that is due out this month, and his talks reflect and build on these articles. For a list of his articles, litigation, and courses by Professor Quigley, see his website here: http://www.loyno.edu/~quigley
...Some info from the site:
Bill Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience. Bill has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Advancement Project, and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as General Counsel for over 15 years.
Bill teaches in the Law Clinic and teaches courses in Law and Poverty and Catholic Social Teaching and Law. His research and writing has focused on living wage, the right to a job, legal services, community organizing as part of effective lawyering, civil disobedience, high stakes testing, international human rights, revolutionary lawyering and a continuing history of how the laws have regulated the poor since colonial times. He has served as an advisor on human and civil rights to Human Rights Watch USA, Amnesty International USA, and served as the Chair of the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Bill received the 2006 Camille Gravel Civil Pro Bono Award from the Federal Bar Association New Orleans Chapter. Bill received the 2006 Stanford Law School National Public Service Award and the 2006 National Lawyers Guild Ernie Goodman award. He has also been an active volunteer lawyer with School of the Americas Watch and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.
Bill is the author of Ending Poverty As We Know It: Guaranteeing A Right to A Job At A Living Wage (Temple University Press, 2003). In 2003, he was named the Pope Paul VI National Teacher of Peace by Pax Christi USA and is the recipient of the 2004 SALT Teaching Award presented by the Society of American Law Teachers.
Dinner Saturday Night
Alyssa's making a group reservation at Olivier's Creole Restaurant for 9:30/10 pm so that we can break bread together as a group. It is located at 204 Decatur St., New Orleans, LA 70130. Thanks Alyssa!
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