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The Public Eye, Fall 2010

In the Fall 2010 issue, Julie Quiroz-Martinez describes the right-wing fight against green jobs and environmental and racial justice, Darwin BondGraham explores how the crisis of poverty and injustice in New Orleans predated Katrina, and Kapya Koama looks into how the U.S. religious right has introduced anti-gay attitudes into Africa. 

In this issue

Beyond Green Jobs

People in hi visibility jackets pointing upwards.

Everyone wants to be green. Fossil fuel companies tout their commitments to the environment, with BP sporting its green and yellow flower logo and Chevron scooping up a Green Apple award for promoting public-school energy efficiency. In 2009 Exxon-…

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The Long Hurricane

The New Orleans Catastrophe Predates Katrina
Survivors' Village at St. Bernard Projects, New Orleans.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina and the “federal flood,” as locals call the disaster, the new New Orleans is as much the product of decades of antiwelfare ideology in local and national governments as it is of the unique circumstances of the…

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Who’s Colonialist?

African Anti-Gay Politics In The Global Discourse

In August 2010, more than 400 African Anglican Bishops gathered in Entebbe, Uganda, for their second All-Africa Bishops Conference, which attracted global media attention because of the debates on LGBT rights.

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