Jordan Flaherty
Jordan Flaherty is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine, and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first
writer to bring the story of the Jena Six to a national audience and audiences around the world have seen the television reports he's produced for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, GritTV, and Democracy Now. Haymarket Press will release his new book, FLOODLINES: Stories of Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six, in 2010. He can be reached at neworleans@leftturn.org.
Six Years After Hurricane Katrina, The Battle for New Orleans Continues
September 1, 2011 - 8:38am (Print)
Political power has shifted to whites, but blacks have not given up their struggle for a voice -- and justice.
Louisiana Sex Workers Will No Longer Be Labeled as Sex Offenders
June 29, 2011 - 1:20pm (Print)
Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. Governor Jindall's office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine Marchand Stiaes, that effectively moves prostitution convictions back to the level of misdemeanor.
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