Bill Quigley\'s presentation on the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans three years after the event.

1. Katrina’s Impact Three Years After

5. 25% of New Orleans Do Not Own Car

9. Before Katrina After Katrina

15. Not Just New Orleans

17. City Hall, Long Beach, MS

18. Katrina Damaged 90,000 Square Miles Area from Boston to Baltimore Inland hundreds of miles Size of Oregon

19. Still Displaced

20. 80% of New Orleans Flooded

22. One Million Displaced

29. Housing

37. Noose Around New Orleans for African-American and Moderate Income Renters

38. St. Bernard Parish: Post-K Rent Only to Blood Relatives

39. Jefferson Parish Council Passes Resolution Opposing Tax Credits for Housing. Member Chris Roberts: "With the number of jobs out there, nobody should be on public housing unless you're ignorant or lazy."

40. We do not want “thugs” and “trash” from New Orleans public housing projects. Everyone with dreadlocks or che-wee hairstyles will be stopped by law enforcement.” Sheriff Jack Strain St. Tammany Parish

41. 57.5% of Landlords in Metro Area Discriminate Against African- Americans April 2007 Greater N.O. Fair Housing Action Center

42. Homeowners in New Orleans Oppose Rebuilding Section 8 Apartments

43. 81,000 Families in Gulf in 240 sq ft. Trailers – April 07

44. Good News – LA gets $10 billion

45. Bad News: Housing Rehab $ Slow June 6, 2007 – 24,910 people out of 142,000 applicants July 08 – 115,000 out of 155,000 applicants

46. Estimated at least 5-10% of the 100,000 LA Applications for Federal Housing Assistance have Title Problems

47. 51,000 Rental Units Seriously Damaged in New Orleans

49. Rents Soar 70-80%

50. Pre-Katrina, 5000 families lived in public housing

53. Healthcare

55. How can you respond to a disaster in a country that does not believe in universal health care?

56. Refusal to Reopen Public Hospital –that saw 350,000 a year

57. 10 of 23 Hospitals in New Orleans Remain Closed

58. People Have Lost Jobs, Health Insurance, Hospital, Doctor, Dentist, Pharmacy, Records

59. Impact on Children?

61. Pre-Katrina 450 Psych Beds in Metro Area – Now 200

66. Education

72. Largest Union in Louisiana United Teachers of New Orleans DECERTIFIED 7500 people lose jobs

74. High School Entrance

75. In Houston, 41% of high school sophomores and 52% juniors of evacuees were held back.

76. Infrastructure

77. City of New Orleans Near Bankruptcy

78. Environmental Impact?

80. Major Water Problems New Orleans Losing More Water Than Using

81. Lower 9 th Ward No Drinkable Water For One Full Year

82. Dramatic Reduction in Public Transportation

83. “ I am back and I want to work, but the jobs are 3 to 11 and the bus doesn’t run at night!”

84. Still Unfixed Traffic Lights!

85. Over one-third of the grocery stores in NOLA still closed

86. Dramatic Reduction in Day Care

87. Pre-K 600,000 Jobs in Metro NO; Post – K 400,000 jobs

88. Recruitment and Abuse of Immigrant Workers

89. Workers Living in Tents

92. Dramatic Reduction in Public Education, Healthcare, Housing, Transportation, & Childcare Equals Reduction in African American Women Workers - From 51,000 to 17,000

94. Superdome is Opened - $180 Million Public Hospitals? Public Schools? Public Housing?

95. Criminal Justice

97. 6000 – 8000 Prisoners Left Behind

99. Evidence Room: Chest-deep Water

101. November 29, 2006 Inmate lost in system resurfaces: After 13 months he gets day in court After spending 13 months in three different state prisons without speaking to a single defense attorney, prosecutor or judge, Pedro Parra-Sanchez pleaded innocent Tuesday to an assault charge levied against him six days after he moved to New Orleans to work in the battered city’s recovery.”

102. Seven Police Officers Charged with Murder

103. Meanwhile, Crime Increases

104. Signs of Hope

106. Our Hearts Must Be Totally Open to Injustice and Pain and Totally Open to Hope and Love

112. Rockie Charles, Blues

114. St. Augustine’s Church

118. Radical Revolution of Values

119. Not This Revolution

120. We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must shift from a “thing oriented” society to a “person oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, militarism [and sexism] are incapable of being conquered. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967

121. the giant quadruplets of racism, materialism, militarism and sexism

122. Demands for Change

123. International Connections Human Rights Analysis The Right to Return

124. Five Weeks After Katrina Southeast Asia Earthquake - 73,000 People Died Millions Homeless October 5, 2005 – Kashmir Response?

126. Guest Workers Protest Passport Confiscation – Sulphur, LA

130. Advancement Project

136. Small Business Assistance Kevin J. Curnin, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan; David Goldberg, associate general counsel of Citigroup; Tricia Jefferson, Lawyers Comm. Civil Rights

138. Justice Challenge? Never Again!

140. http://law.loyno.edu/~quigley/