New Orleans and the struggle against racism, and poverty during Mardi Gras!

New Orleans and the struggle against racism, and poverty during Mardi Gras!

This is an interview with Mayaba Liebanthal a resident of New Orleans, and activist with Critical Resistance, and INCITE.

New Orleans and the struggle against racism, and poverty during Mardi Gras!

This is an interview with Mayaba Liebanthal a resident of New Orleans, and activist with Critical Resistance, and INCITE. Mayaba speaks on the struggle against the systematic racism that has always existed in New Orleans and across the United States and how it has become at its most apparent in new orleans in the struggle for housing for the still hundreds of thousands of poor black residents in New Orleans. Mayaba also speaks about the criminalization of blacks in New Orleans and the treatment of residents in prisons after Katrina.

This interview also looks at the resistance that is currently emerging in New Orleans around the issue of health, housing, and for the diaspora of new orleans residence across the US.

This interview was conducted and produced by Mostafa Henaway for CKLN 88.1 FM in Toronto

For more information on the struggles of the people of new orleans

Critical Resistance
www.criticalresistance.org

Women of Colour Against Violence
http://www.incite-national.org/

Common Ground Collective
www.commongroundrelief.org/

For more information contact
www.ckln.fm