Acceso al Idioma en Bulbancha
A menos que la ciudad proporcione traducción e interpretación realmente accesibles, la participación cívica plena es imposible para los habitantes que hablan poco o nada de inglés en Nueva Orleans, dicen los autores.
On the heels of staff non-renewals, Lycée Français teachers win union vote
The win came shortly after a group of teachers were not offered contracts for the next school year, a move that some saw as an unfair effort to undermine the union drive – and possibly jeopardize the integrity of Lycée Français for years to come.
Behind The Lens episode 236: ‘An energy company deciding subject matter’
Sara Sneath on LSU's unusual relationship with the oil and gas industry. Marta Jewson on Lycée Français charter school's union drive.
Tulane and Port NOLA using arrests to silence Palestine protesters
EPA in the Crosshairs
While industry proponents still see the EPA’s administrator as their foe — deserving of Louisiana prison time, one says — environmental groups say that the agency’s lagging standards lead to increasingly polluted wastewater.
Conditions d’emploi: unionizing at Lycée Français
After Lycée Français teachers began working toward a union, demanding better working conditions, the school’s CEO warned that a union could change the school’s culture. But to the school’s French national teachers, unions are central to the very culture the school emulates.
Fess: The SongByrd of N.O.
Deon Haywood: From flames came new dreams
“Today, 12 years after the fire, 35 years after Women With A Vision’s founding, our world is on fire,” writes Deon Haywood, in this adapted foreword for the newly released book, “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.”
