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Mac is Mother Jones‘ human rights reporter, writer of The Rights Stuff, and the author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma’s Never-Ending War. She has "been on the Gulf Coast since the early days of the Gulf oil disaster, and… documented every last drop of it."
Mac has reported from locations including Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Micronesia, Burma, New Orleans, and Bhutan on subjects such as the hot young Bhutanese king, Post-Katrina recovery efforts, South Pacific conservation initiatives, being embedded in dumpster-diving culture, posing as a high-class freelance call girl, and the decline of American manufacturing.
More important, she is, according to The American Prospect, "a total bad-ass."
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‘Down in the Treme’
Treme Panel Moderated by Maitri Erwin |
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Maitri Erwin
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Maitri is a geoscientist, blogger and all-around technology geek. She is the founder of Back of Town: Blogging Treme, author of Maitri’s VatulBlog and reporter for VizWorld.com. She is also Indian Languages advisor to Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books.
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Eric Overmyer
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Eric is a playwright, television writer and producer. He is the the co-creator of Treme and has written and produced numerous TV shows, including Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire and New Amsterdam.
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Becky Northcut
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Becky is most likely better known to NO bloggers as VirgoTex, and she will answer to either name. In addition to being one of two non-NOLA ringers blogging Treme at Back of Town, she sometimes writes about pop culture, the environment, and politics at First-Draft.com, so she’s practically a digital cousin to some in the NO online community. She created the short-lived Got that New Package! blog about The Wire, and was lucky enough to share that obsession with Ashley Morris and Ray Shea, among others. She is a queer, a naturalist, a music lover, and a Texan, none of which she had any choice about.
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Dave Walker
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Dave has been TV columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune since September 2000. Before that, he worked as TV columnist and pop culture writer for the Arizona Republic, and before that he was a feature writer and columnist for the Phoenix alternative weekly New Times. Born in Kansas City, raised in Chicago. His American Rock ‘n’ Roll Tour, the first guide to pop music landmarks, was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press in 1992.
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Davis Rogan
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Davis is a New Orleans musician who began his broadcast career on WTUL at the age of 10, and was a DJ at WWOZ for 13 years. He first came to prominence in the New Orleans music scene with his eight piece funk group All That, for which he was lead singer, band leader, principal songwriter, arranger and producer. Davis is also script consultant for Treme and makes periodic appearances on the show.
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Lolis Eric Elie
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Lolis Eric Elie is a staff writer for Treme. His television work includes include Faubourg Treme, the PBS documentary directed by Dawn Logsdon. He was also a columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune for 14 years.
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‘Why Can’t We Get Some Dam Safety in New Orleans?’
Presentation by Tim Ruppert
Engineer and NOLA Blogger Tim Ruppert exposes inequities between the Federal government’s design methods for dams and levees. For his Rising Tide 2 presentation, “In Levees We Trust,” Tim explained why the so-called “100-year level of protection” is completely inadequate for a highly developed and populated area such as New Orleans. This year Tim expands upon that topic and asks why dams and levees alike are not designed as life safety systems.
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‘Paradise Lost’
Evironmental panel moderated by Steve Picou
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Steve Picou
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Steve Picou is a lifelong environmental activist, musician and futurist with a systems-oriented perspective. He is an outreach agent with the LSU AgCenter in the New Orleans area where he helps people and organizations reduce their impact, save energy and find ways to develop sustainable lifestyles and businesses. A blogger since 1997– when he established the website of the (now-defunct) Louisiana Music Commission and served as Assistant Director from 1992 to 2005–Steve expresses his thoughts on the environment, politics, music and social justice primarily via nolamotion.com and highlights eco-abuse at dyingoaks.posterous.com.
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Robert Verchick
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Robert Verchick holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans. He is currently on leave, serving in a government position in Washington, D.C. Professor Verchick is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard Law School. An expert in environmental law and in the developing field of disaster law, he has taught at several American law schools as well as at universities in China and Denmark. His newest book, "Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World," has just been released by Harvard University Press. |
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Len Bahr
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Politics Panel
Moderated by Peter Athas |
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Jason Berry
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Jason Berry is a documentary filmmaker and IP media consultant from New Orleans. His first full length documentary was completed in 2006 with fellow filmmaker, Vince Morelli, titled, Left Behind: The Story of the The New Orleans Public Schools. Berry began his blog, American Zombie, in 2006 as anonymous source reporting on corruption issues withing New Orleans City Hall. After breaking numerous corruption issues within New Orleans city government Jason went public with his identity in 2009 after being threatened with a libel suit by a New Orleans’ city official.
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Clancy Dubos
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Clancy DuBos is the chairman and co-owner of Gambit Communications, Inc., and the political editor/columnist for Gambit weekly newspaper in New Orleans. He also is the on-air political commentator for WWL-TV (Eyewitness News Channel 4) in New Orleans, and a licensed attorney. Clancy and his wife Margo have owned Gambit since 1991, and he has been an attorney since 1993.
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Jeff Crouere
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Jeff Crouere is a native of New Orleans, LA and he is the host of a Louisiana based program, “Ringside Politics,” which airs at 7:30 p.m. Fri. and 10:00 p.m. Sun. on WLAE-TV 32, a PBS station, and 7 till 11 a.m.weekdays on WGSO 990 AM in New Orleans and the Northshore. For more information, visit his web site at www.ringsidepolitics.com.
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Stephanie Grace
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Stephanie Grace is a political columnist with the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, focusing on local, state and national politics, and since Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Before moving to the op-ed page in 2003, she spent eight years as a political reporter for the paper.
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Jaques Morial
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Public safety panel
Moderated by Brian Denzer |
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Brian Denzer
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Brian Denzer was intiated into the New Orleans crime problem when friends became murder victims in 1995. He went on to become the principal developer of the New Orleans Police Department’s COMSTAT crime mapping system, which has been used for over ten years. He has also provided technical support to the US Attorney’s Office, and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. For the last three years, he led a successful advocacy campaign through CitizenCrimeWatch.org, and NolaStat.org,
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Jon Wool
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Allen James
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Susan Hutson
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