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Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

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“This is crucial book I’ve read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called ‘The People’s History of the Storm.’ Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines.”
—Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues and activist and founder of V-Day

“Jordan Flaherty brings the sharp analysis and dedication of a seasoned organizer to his writing, and insightful remark to his reporting. He unfailingly has his ear to the ground in a city that continues to reveal the floodlines of structural racism in The united states.”—Tram Nguyen, writer of We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11

Floodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists in the years before and after Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the members of the family of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories at the back of the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history.

Jordan Flaherty is a creator and community organizer based in New Orleans. Along with his award-winning post-Katrina journalism, he was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case and played crucial role in bringing the story to theattention of the world. He has produced news segments for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, and Democracy Now! and appeared as a guest on quite a lot of television and radio shows, including CNN’s American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, GRITtv, Keep Hope Alive with Reverend Jesse Jackson, and both local and nationally syndicated shows on National Public Radio.


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