09/03/2008 - 10:38am
In the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina, the California Nurses'
Association sent over 300 nurses to 25 healthcare clinics and facilities in the
Gulf Coast. So it made sense, three years later, for the union to check in on
the state of the region's health care system and take stock of its string of
failures.
06/12/2008 - 3:02am
Laborfest 2008 held in San Francisco every July 5 has invited Brad Ott, of the Committee To Reopen Charity Hospital to two events on the issue. One will be in San Jose and the other in San Francisco.
04/14/2008 - 3:30pm
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and, yes, there are still brass bands playing in the
streets of New Orleans, marching in traditional jazz funerals and second line parades
through the back-a-town neighborhoods and main thoroughfares of the city.
And yes, there are still younger musicians coming up through the tradition, learning the
horn parts to “Liza Jane” and “Closer Walk with Thee,” and beating the cymbal with a bent
coat hanger or screwdriver.
02/19/2008 - 4:02pm
This is the story of many working families in the post-Katrina New Orleans . It is the story of racism, greed, opportunism, corruption and political apathy. In the two years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans , barely 50 percent of its residents have been able to return home. Those who have come back are still seeking higher ground.
12/21/2007 - 2:15pm
Katrina hit
New Orleans on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2005. AFSCME members Charssie Muse and Janet Thomas evacuated. Daryl Bushnell, a waiter, did not. He was stranded on a rooftop for two days until help came. Two years later their stories are still raw. Their lives are broken. Their city is decimated. And they have returned to rebuild.
