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We never thought it would end up on a hard wooden bench inside a police station in Piazza Cavour. Maryknoll priest Fr.…
Bill Quigley
Bill Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. He served as Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience.
We stood in a tight group, over a dozen blan huddled together, trying not to obstruct the narrow path between the makeshift…
Broken and collapsed buildings remain in every neighborhood. Men pull oxcarts by hand through the street. Women carry 5 gallon plastic jugs…
Mathias O is 34 years old. He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.…
Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on…
“We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by…
Haiti experienced a major earthquake January 12, 2010. Tens of thousands died, estimates range from 65,000 to 230,000 people killed. About 2…
Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows…
The rich have been getting richer and the poor and middle have been getting poorer in the US recently. Here are seven examples…
Two grandmothers, two priests and a nun were sentenced in federal court in Tacoma, WA Monday March 28, 2011, for confronting hundreds…