Bill Quigley
Bill Quigley is Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years. He volunteers with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and the Bureau de Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port au Prince. Contact Bill at quigley77@gmail.com
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Views Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Peoples Coalition Helped Elect New Orleans' First Progressive District Attorney On December 5, 2020, New Orleans elected its first ever progressive District Attorney, who was a criminal defense lawyer for over 20 years before being elected, replaced former DA Leon Cannizzaro, described by New Orleans papers as a traditional tough on crime prosecutor . An unprecedented... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 11, 2021 Past Time to Remember Thousands Displaced and Left Behind by Hurricanes Laura and Delta Four and a half months after two hurricanes ripped apart Louisiana, tens of thousands of people are still suffering. While the national election has absorbed the attention of the nation, thousands of people are still not back in their homes. Many have had to move a half dozen times. Some are living... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 09, 2020 19 Tragic Facts About Covid-19 87 million. 87 million workers will lose federally mandated COVID sick leave at the end of December unless Congress acts to extend the law. 50 million. 50 million people are now facing hunger at least once a month, including 1 in 4 children. The rate of adults who sometimes or often do not have... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 08, 2020 7 Very Disturbing Facts About COVID-19 in Louisiana Here are seven very disturbing facts about the coronavirus outbreak now raging in Louisiana. Virus Raging. Statewide Louisiana is second only to New York in deaths per 100,000 people with 582 reported as of April 7. Six parishes (counties) in the New Orleans area are in the top ten in deaths of all... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Six Quick—But Very Important—Points About Coronavirus and Poverty in the US In the United States, tens of millions of people are at a much greater risk of getting sick from the coronavirus than others. The most vulnerable among us do not have the option to comply with suggestions to stay home from work or work remotely. Most low wage workers do not have any paid sick days... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 28, 2018 Memorial Day – 7 Facts Documenting Our Neglect of Millions of Veterans While flags fly and politicians preach patriotism, millions of our veterans remain neglected. Here are seven examples. 20. Twenty veterans die by suicide each day. In fact, the risk for suicide is 22 percent higher among veterans than the non-veteran population according to the Veterans... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 19, 2017 The Blueprint for the Most Radical City on the Planet In July 2017, 34 year old Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in as Mayor of Jackson Mississippi. He soon announced that the city was going to be “ the most radical city on the planet .” This was not an idle boast because Jackson Mississippi, of all places, is where one of the country’s most radical... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Warning Letter to Harvey and Irma Survivors from Katrina Survivor Dear Fellow Hurricane Survivors: Our hearts go out to you as you try to return to and fix your homes and lives. Based on our experiences, here are a few things you should watch out for as you rebuild your communities. One. Rents are going to skyrocket and waves of evictions are likely. With so many... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Everything Wrong with Charter Schools on Display in New Orleans New Orleans is the nation’s largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools. Though there... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 06, 2017 How to Reverse Incarceration in Louisiana: Thirteen Steps to Stop Being First in Being Last Louisiana was recently named “ Worst State ” in the nation, again . One of the reasons was the state’s 50 th ranking in crime and corrections . Being the incarceration capital of the county is obviously not helping our reputation. Here are a dozen plus ways for Louisiana to stop jailing many more... Read more |