Gustav Coverage: A Look at New Orleans before Gustav hit

By Desiree Evans / September 4, 2008

This special report produced for Democracy Now! by New Orleans journalist Jordan Flaherty and New Orleans filmmaker Lily Keber, highlights some of the concerns New Orleans' residents felt around the evacuation and the state of New Orleans three years after Hurricane Katrina. Filmed in the hours before Gustav landed in Louisiana, the report features Saket Soni from the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, Bill Quigley from Loyola Law Clinic, Carol Kolinchak from Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, and many others.

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