Human rights lawyer and law professor Bill Quigley's presentation on social justice and Katrina.

1. Katrina: Law and Social Justice

3. First! Thank you to all who did so very very much Without you…?

9. Self Reliance

12. Build and Re-Build Community

15. Advancement Project

20. August 29, 2005

23. Officials already knew that: 27% of people in NOLA did not have access to a car 100,000 people 27% of NOLA lived below poverty line

24. 25% of New Orleans Do Not Own Car

28. Hyatt Hotel

29. August 30, 2005

30. More than 100 reported dead in Mississippi

32. Slabbed

35. Lower Ninth Ward Before Katrina

36. Lower Ninth After Levee Failure

37. Sand deposits Warrington Drive – London Canal

38. flood inundation source: USGS

43. Who was left behind?

55. 8300 Prisoners Left in Cells

56. ACLU Report Abandoned & Abused

63. Congress later estimated that at least 78,000 people were left behind

64. Many Never Made It Out 1,700 direct deaths

70. Thousands More “Aftershock” Deaths

71. One Million Displaced

72. City of New Orleans Closed Indefinitely

74. Race & Katrina Gender & Katrina Class & Katrina (Property Ownership) Cannot understand Katrina Without Analysis

77. Surviving or Looting?

82. 3 Days After Katrina

83. “ As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge.

84. “ Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads.”

85. Jefferson Parish Council Unanimously Supported Action

87. Ronald Madison – Shot 7 times, 5 times in the Back

88. Lance Madison – Filing Civil Rights Action

89. Immediate Federal Response

93. Federal Emergency Management Agency “Heck of a job, Brownie!”

94. Brown prior job? Horse Association

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

96. September 8, 2005 President Suspends Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wage Law

97. September 8, 2005 President Suspends Affirmative Action Requirement of contractors

98. September 16, 2005 – “From Tragedy to Triumph: Principled Solutions for Rebuilding Lives and Communities” Have Private Sector Respond – Not Government Vouchers & Choice in Public Education Eliminate Capital Tax on Investments Repeal Clean Air Act to speed re-building oil & gas Reduce EPA rules for refineries Open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Rebuild schools, bridges, water & sanitation with private sector Repeal Estate Tax

99. Who ended up in shelters?

102. In Long Beach, MS, Shelter

103. US Marshalls & Mississippi Law Enforcement

104. Pulled Out 60 “Latino-looking” People

105. Given Hours to Leave For Atlanta, Houston, or Mexico

106. Some Red Cross Shelters Flatly Denied Assistance to Foreign Born

107. Scope of Damage Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Florida

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

110. 300,000 homes uninhabitable

112. Feet of Water Black – over 10 Dark red – 8 to 10 f Red – 6 to 8 Yellow – 4 to 6 Blue - 2 to 4 Green 0-2

113. Black & Poor Neighborhoods Suffered Disproportionate Flood Damages – Lower Elevation

115. Early Warnings Not Everyone Welcome Back NOT WANTED

116. “ We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” Richard Baker, U.S. Congressman (R-La) Days after Katrina

117. “ The new city must be something very different… with better services and fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically , geographically and politically ," WSJ September 8, 2005

118. “ New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again," Alphonso Jackson, Sec. of HUD.

119. St. Bernard Parish: September 2005 Rent Only to Blood Relatives Ordinance

122. 204,000 People Lost Their Jobs September 2005

123. Environmental Impact?

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

128. 110 Public Schools Destroyed or Severely Damaged

130. September 15, 2005 School Board Converts First Schools to Charters – Meeting in Baton Rouge

132. October 2005

133. One-third New Orleans Opens Up: French Quarter, CBD, Uptown, Algiers

134. October 2, 2005 Water still being pumped out of 9 th Ward

135. First (highest land) back? Least black.

136. Governor Issues Executive Order Waiving Charter School Start-up Rules – October 2005 School Board then converts all 13 schools on dry side of river into charter schools

137. NOT WANTED "As a practical matter, these poor folks don't have the resources to go back to our city just like they didn't have the resources to get out of our city. So we won't get all those folks back. That's just a fact." Canizaro – October 2005

139. October 25, 2005 Governor Lifts Stay of Evictions

140. Waves of Evictions Hit New Orleans

144. Injunction granted against court by court

145. Federal challenge to LA eviction laws – tacking 3 day notice

147. Criminal Courthouse Closed No Jury Trials No Witnesses No Victims Accused Still Lost in System

148. Criminal Evidence Room: Chest-deep Water

149. UN Human Rights Special Raporteur Visits

150. “ Shocking” “Gross violation of Human Rights.” “If USA, richest country in history of world, can rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq, why not New Orleans?”

151. Right to Return

152. International Human Rights Law

155. 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." October 2005

157. October 30, 2005 Lower 9 th Ward – Still Not Drained – No residents allowed in

158. November 2005

159. 54 members of Congress, including ALL the members of the Congressional Black Caucus co-sponsor HR 4197, Hurricane Katrina Recovery Act Goes Nowhere

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

161. Los Angeles Times: low income African Americans more likely to land farther away from the city when displaced –

162. St. Bernard? 193 Miles Away

163. Lower 9 th Ward? 349 Miles Away

164. NAACP LDF & Civil Rights Advocates file Voting Rights Action

165. LA Secretary of State: “299,000 voters in N.O. not back”

166. This is New (better) Normal & “Let’s move on.” versus The Right to Return

167. LA Legislature Strips NO School Board of 102 Schools

168. Largest Union in Louisiana United Teachers of New Orleans DECERTIFIED after 35 years 7500 people lose jobs

169. FEMA - November 15, 2005 Quit paying for housing for nearly 60,000 homeless Katrina families residing in government paid hotel and motel rooms.

170. X 60,000

173. Who is coming back? November 2005 Urban Land Institute announces division of New Orleans into three zones – including one – return to nature

175. 1878 New Orleans 200,000 people

176. city of history source: Campanella 2002, ULI Analysis 2000 1949 1920 1880 1722 Legend

177. December 2005

179. Protests & Litigation

180. 9 th Ward Opened to residents for “look see” only

183. December 2005 Governor postpones New Orleans elections Times-Picayune calls foul Need swift elections to show normalcy “They did it in Baghdad.”

184. Christmas Eve – 2005 City of New Orleans announces plans to bulldoze houses without notice

185. Federal constitutional case filed with Advancement Project

186. Report on Housing Discrimination against Katrina survivors released

187. January 2006

188. Demands for Change

189. Voting rights advocates lose battle for easier absentee & satellite voting

190. February 2006

191. New Orleans Elections Held

192. Voter turnout low - more than 10% below usual mayoral turnout and more than 40% below turnout November 2004 presidential election

193. Black neighborhoods lost 6-7 points of share in electorate, down from 63% in 2002 and 2004 to 57% in 2006.

194. In white undamaged areas like French quarter and garden district turnout was up

195. Results of Election “ reshape the political map of the city by suppressing the vote in the poorest and blackest neighborhoods.” John R. Logan, Brown University

196. Feb 2006- Louisiana law enforcement personnel were so concerned about evacuees that they convened interagency meetings with State Police and Local Police to plan evictions of 12,000 families from hotels .

197. Pre-Katrina 22 Hospitals Feb 2006 - 7

198. Pre-Katrina there were 53,000 hospital beds February 2006 there were 15,000 Waits of more than 8 hours in emergency not uncommon.

199. March 2006 6 months after Katrina

201. One third of city homes using electricity 15% of public schools open Katrina Index – February 2006

202. April 2006

203. Ninth Ward – April 2006

204. FEMA Trailers & Health Report - April 2006

205. FEMA Trailers are 240 square feet

206. Impact on Children?

207. Nearly half of the parents surveyed reported that at least one of their children had emotional or behavioral difficulties that the child didn't have before the hurricane

208. More than half the women caregivers showed evidence of clinically-diagnosed psychiatric problems, such as depression or anxiety disorders

209. Households have moved average of 3.5 times since the hurricane, some as many as nine times, often across state lines

210. More than one-fifth of the school-age children who were either not in school , or had missed 10 days of school in the past month

212. No criminal or civil jury trials yet – April 2006 6000 awaiting criminal trials

213. Vietnamese Community Fights Landfill

215. May 2006

216. 25,000 students in 53 schools 6 traditional 17 state 34 charter

219. June 2006

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

223. Class Action USDC Filed on behalf of 4500 families displaced from public housing

224. June 2006, Black evacuees nearly 5 times more likely to be unemployed than white evacs, - U.S. Department of Labor.

227. Pre-Katrina 450 Psych Beds in Metro Area – Now 80

228. First Criminal Jury Trial!

229. Migrant Workers Abuse June 7, 2006 – UCAL Berkeley & Tulane Report on Migrant Workers. Half the reconstruction workers in NOLA is Latino; 54% of group is undocumented – 87% already living in us at time of Katrina Routinely mistreated.

232. July 2006

233. Migrant Workers Abuse (cont) INJUSTICE FOR ALL Report by Advancement Project

235. 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

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

237. UN Human Rights Committee Issues Report “ Poor People and African Americans Disadvantaged under USA Rescue, Evacuation & Reconstruction” July 2006

238. August 2006 1 Year

239. August 2006 – Ninth Ward

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

241. Half Homes in NO Still Not Hooked Up to Electricity

242. Dramatic Reduction in Public Transportation – 83%

244. Women Louisiana lost 180,000 workers after Katrina, 103,000 were women. In New Orleans after Katrina, men’s median annual income rose to $43,055 while women’s fell to $28,932; Two-thirds of single mothers have not returned to New Orleans; In Mississippi only one of the state’s women crisis centers remained open – covering four counties in the disaster area.

245. On Gulf Coast 298,000 people living in FEMA trailers August 2006

246. Blue Cross: “3/4 of physicians in New Orleans gone.” One Year After Katrina

247. Half the Hospitals in New Orleans Remain Closed – 1 Year After

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

249. 250,000 Displaced in Texas

250. Texas, summer 06, hosting over 250,000 displaced; 41% income less than $500 per month. 81% black, 59% still jobless, most one child at home.

251. 150,000 in Houston Alone

252. 100,000 Displaced in Georgia 80,000 in Atlanta Most need Long-term Housing and Mental Health Services

253. Half the Groceries in NOLA still closed

254. Dramatic Reduction in Day Care

255. Dramatic Reduction in Public Education, Healthcare, Housing, Transportation, & Childcare Equals Reduction in African American Women Workers in NO - From 51,000 to 17,000

256. Where did the money go?

258. Who Got the Disaster Contracts?

261. Example #1 – Blue Tarps on Roof

263. Shaw Group got contract for $175 a square (100 sq ft) -subcontracts for $75/square earns $100 each square- average roof is 1500 square feet – 15 squares X 15 Per roof!

264. A1 Construction gets $75/square subcontracts out for $30/square X 15 Per roof!

265. Roofers get $2 per square (of original $175)

268. If government works for corporations before the disaster, why different after? After disaster is a hyper corporate friendly environment.

269. Example #4: Biloxi Moved Casinos Ashore Evicting Low-Income People From Homes

271. Congress allocated $10 billion in Community Development Block Grants, Louisiana has not yet distributed dollar number one.

272. Dan Farber & Jim Chen publish DISASTERS and the LAW

273. September 2006

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

277. October 2006

278. 9 th Ward Gets Drinkable Water

280. November 2006

281. November 1, 2006, 18 received CDBG money to fix homes, 77,000 homeowners applied

283. High School Entrance

285. December 2006

287. New Hurricane Problem “ DEADLINE SET FOR REMOVING FEMA TRAILERS” December 14, 2006

289. Seven Police Officers Charged with Murder

290. January 2007

291. Federal suits filed to open public schools & stop wait list

293. February 2007

295. March 2007

296. Housing Protests Continue

297. April 2007

298. 57.5% of Landlords in Metro Area Discriminate Against African- Americans April 2007 Greater N.O. Fair Housing Action Center

299. Over 70,000 Families in Gulf in 240 sq ft. Trailers – April 07

300. Homeowners in New Orleans Oppose Rebuilding Section 8 Apartments

301. USDC Class Action v FEMA Termination and Recoupment

302. May 2007

306. June 2007

307. 24,910 approved for Federal Housing Rehab $ out of 142,000 applicants – June 07

309. July 2007

310. Fight for Public Housing Continues

311. Fight for Public Health continues

312. Environmental Struggle Continues

314. Fight for public schools continues

315. August 2007

316. Some People Making Big Money, Not Victims

317. Federal Class Action filed To prevent mistaken and no notice demolition of homes in New Orleans

319. National Guard Still Patrols New Orleans

320. Katrina Human Rights Tribunal

323. Voter Purge Challenged in USDC

325. September 2007

326. U Cal Berkeley Pledges to Rebuild Gulf Coast

327. Signs of Hope

330. “ This is why we joined the service – to help people!”

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

332. Community Organizations Push e.g. ACORN

333. Church Groups Organize e.g. Jeremiah Group

334. People Keep Fighting to Come Home

335. Authorities Listen to the People (just kidding)

336. Guest Workers Organize and Protest Passport Confiscations

337. Our Friends = Solidarity

338. International Connections Human Rights Analysis The Right to Return

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

340. Increased attention to environment

341. Those Left Behind When Katrina Hit Are Being Left Behind Again

342. Justice Challenge? Never Again!

343. www.loyno.edu/~quigley/