Falling Together in New Orleans Video Blog posts are snapshots of the characters and situations I encountered during the video journaling process. Some of this footage makes it through to full production, some doesn't, but it is a real-time process to give people access to what I am experiencing while I am meeting people and gathering footage.
New Orleans has been a disaster for a lot of people and when something really bad happens it’s more of a disaster for the same people. - John Clark
John Clark is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans and teaches in the Environmental Studies Program. His books include Max Stirner’s Egoism, The Philosophical Anarchism of William Godwin, The Anarchist Moment: Reflections on Culture, Nature and Power, Renewing the Earth: The Promise of Social Ecology (editor), Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (four editions; coeditor), Elisée Reclus’ Voyage to New Orleans, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus, in addition to several forthcoming works.
He has been active for many years in the Green Movement, an international movement for ecological sustainability, world peace, social justice and grassroots democracy. Despite his reservations about the perils of electoral politics, he is a member of the Greater New Orleans Green Party and the Green Party of Louisiana.
He also works in the bioregional movement and in ecological forestry, and is reforesting and reintroducing native species on an 83-acre tract along Bayou LaTerre in Hancock County, Miss. He organized Freeport Watch, an organization that monitors and works against ecocide and cultural genocide in West Papua (Western New Guinea) by Freeport McMoran, one of the world’s largest mining corporations. He is a member of the Education Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World.
I was shocked to hear people’s short-sighted reaction to this footage of Troy. Though Troy has obviously knocked back a couple of cold ones, his message is clear and truly valuable.
Dr. Lance Hill is the Executive Director of the Southern Institute for Education and Researchat Tulane University. Dr. Hill worked as a community activist and labor organizer for 20 years before embarking on an academic career.
From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Hill served as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism (LCARN), the grass roots organization that led the opposition to former Klansman David Duke’s Senate and Gubernatorial campaigns.Hill, one of the coalition’s founders, directed the organization’s extensive television, radio and direct mail campaigns.The New York Times and the New Orleans Times-Picayune credited LCARN with playing the leading role in Duke’s ultimate political demise.
In 1993, Hill co-founded the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University. Over the past 10 years the Institute’s tolerance education program-the most comprehensive project of its kind in the South—has provided training to more than 3,600 teachers from 785 schools in the Deep South. The program uses case studies of the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement to teach the causes and consequences of prejudice. With a geographic scope of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle, the Institute prides itself on successful implementing programs in rural and isolated communities that have been traditional strongholds of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups.
Dr. Hill also directs the Southern Institute’s cross-cultural communication training and research program, which teaches advanced skills to improve communication and collaboration among ethnic groups in the United States. Hill holds a PhD from Tulane University, where he has taught US History and Intercultural Communication.
His scholarly research field is the history of race relations and the radical right. He is the author of The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement(University of North Carolina Press, 2004) and "National Socialist Race Doctrine in the Political Thought of David Duke," in The Emergence of David Duke by Doug Rose (University of North Carolina Press, 1994). He has served as a consultant on several PBS documentaries on the radical right and the civil rights movement and has written extensively on racial politics in the South.
Dr. Hill resides in New Orleans with his wife of 30 years, Eileen SanJuan.
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