Tag: Hurricane Katrina
Twenty years after Katrina, the city’s all-charter schools system is failing...
Despite claims by reform advocates of achieving success, Black children and parents continue to endure a punitive, impersonal, and undemocratic system.
FEMA workers warn of another Katrina as cuts, climate censorship, and...
Nearly 200 FEMA employees signed the Katrina Declaration, warning Congress that Trump administration policies are eroding disaster readiness and risking a catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
Lessons from Katrina: This organization tries to get Hurricane Florence survivors...
Many in North Carolina were left homeless by the storm and its still-receding floodwaters. This nonprofit wants to shrink the amount of time it takes to rebuild after a disaster.
Perfect storms? From Katrina to Maria, some would profit from catastrophe
“I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack.” –Donald Trump in Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Oct. 3rd
As hurricanes bear down, tribes act quickly to build resilience plans
After Hurricane Rita, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and Houma Nation in Louisiana had to be entirely relocated. Now, 24 tribes are building plans to mitigate climate disaster.
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Trump demands $10 billion from IRS over tax leak as conflict concerns deepen
The lawsuit targets federal agencies Trump oversees and revives scrutiny of his finances, IRS security failures, and enforcement rollbacks.
Minneapolis is giving Americans the model for fighting a fascist regime
The day when they can turn their resistance against the regime into electoral power, take back control of the legislative branch, and start using the powers of Congress to hold this criminal regime accountable.
Deaths in Minnesota drive rebellion against ICE funding as Sanders demands leadership purge
After U.S. citizens were killed by federal agents, lawmakers tie DHS money to accountability and warn of authoritarian enforcement.
Federal arrest of Don Lemon intensifies alarm over press freedom under Trump Justice Department
The journalist was taken into custody after covering a Minnesota church protest and after a judge rejected an initial attempt to charge him.
Experts warn Minnesota crackdown mirrors early stages of US civil war scenarios
Legal scholars and political scientists say the Trump administration’s escalating ICE operation, National Guard brinkmanship, and Insurrection Act threats in Minnesota closely resemble conditions identified in civil war simulations, raising alarms about constitutional collapse and violent state federal conflict.