Human rights in N.O. Reader CB from Cincinatti Ohio writes:

...As a reader of many progressive blogs/websites including War & Peace, I’ve noticed it’s becoming harder to find independent factual reporting about the human rights nightmare that the reconstruction of the Gulf Region has become. I subscribe to The NewStandard who has one of their editors, Jessica Azulay, on the ground in the region and she is providing the kind of coverage that I think other visitors to War & Peace would benefit from. It’s such an important story please consider linking to her articles. She was the first reporter to interview Robert Davis, the 64-year-old retired elementary school teacher beaten by NO police and writes extensively about “Camp Amtrak”, an improvised jail in what used to be the New Orleans bus terminal in this article...

Posted by Laura at October 14, 2005 08:21 AM