As we mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11, our most sincere thoughts are with those of you on the Gulf Coast, where a disaster of unfathomable scope is still unfolding. In the wake of September 11, the Labor Community Advocacy Network (LCAN) brought together over 50 unions, community organizations, ...

As New Yorkers marked the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, our television screens flickered with ghastly images of devastation on the Gulf Coast. Even after what we'd been through, it was hard to grasp the scale of this disaster. But when members of Congress began to talk about modeli...

One doesn’t have to talk to too many residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, which was wrecked by Katrina and Rita, to discover that this historic, mostly African American New Orleans enclave is a remarkable human community. Like the threads of a sweater that keep the whole from unraveling, the Lower Nin...

A few days after Katrina struck New Orleans, President George W. Bush told the press that the relationship between the federal, state and local governments is "an important relationship, and I need to understand how it works better."

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, desperate and frustrated, was a bi...