"All I Want For Christmas Is My City Back"
Fall on your knees! Repeat the wondrous story!
§ LISTEN: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Matt Liles informed me that Monday's episode of Studio 60 featured a group of New Orleans musicians, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, performing an original arrangement of "O Holy Night" in tribute to the city of New Orleans. To quote Matt: "[T]he story line is that when the producers found out that LA musicians were letting New Orleans musicians gig for them in order to make money they featured them on the show. But beyond the storylines ... this really evoked a lot of my feelings about NO and last Christmas helped me remember why I want to be a lawyer." I couldn’t have said it better myself.
(Real-life alert: The performers in this episode really are New Orleans players and beneficiaries of the Tipitina's Foundation, which aids musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. Rising star Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews was featured in a speaking role in a scene with show star Bradley Whitford.) Download the mp3 here. Watch the highlight on the Studio 60 website (right hand side, look for "A musical Christmas tribute to the city of New Orleans.") Your heart will be touched; it gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes.
§ WITNESS: Incarcerated Man Waited 13 Months for Arraignment
From nola.com and CrimProf Blog:Tulane Law Clinic Criminal Professor Pamela Metzger discovered a Spanish speaking man who spent 13 months in three different Lousiana state prisons without speaking to a single defense attorney, prosecutor, translator or judge before his arraignment.
At his arraignment -- a court proceeding the law requires to take place within, at most, a month after charges are filed -- Pedro Parra-Sanchez could speak only through a translator about his extended stay in a prison system that officials from several agencies admitted simply lost him, failing to secure him the most basic American rights.
In addition to continuing the civil (divorce and succession) work we did last year, this year the UNC Law Pro Bono trip will be working with Professor Metzger and Tulane's Criminal Clinic in sorting through the criminal backlog left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, seeking to release the unjustly detained.
§ READ: UNC Law Students in NOLA December 17-22, 2006
For more on the work UNC Law Pro Bono has done in New Orleans, please visit our blog, For The Good of the Gulf. We'll be updating again week after next as we return to New Orleans for the third time, continuing our tradition. To quote from our letter: "Last year, our Pro Bono Program sent 35 students, one staff person, and two private attorneys to New Orleans during the Winter and Spring Breaks to provide more than 800 hours of pro bono legal services to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Our students were the first organized group of law students to arrive in the Gulf Coast and the first to develop an innovative model of including out-of-state members of the private bar in the efforts."
Just few links to show the timeliness, the serious problem, the serious need to remember New Orleans. A public post, because everyone should bear witness to the ongoing struggle to rebuild.
§ LISTEN: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Matt Liles informed me that Monday's episode of Studio 60 featured a group of New Orleans musicians, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, performing an original arrangement of "O Holy Night" in tribute to the city of New Orleans. To quote Matt: "[T]he story line is that when the producers found out that LA musicians were letting New Orleans musicians gig for them in order to make money they featured them on the show. But beyond the storylines ... this really evoked a lot of my feelings about NO and last Christmas helped me remember why I want to be a lawyer." I couldn’t have said it better myself.
(Real-life alert: The performers in this episode really are New Orleans players and beneficiaries of the Tipitina's Foundation, which aids musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. Rising star Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews was featured in a speaking role in a scene with show star Bradley Whitford.) Download the mp3 here. Watch the highlight on the Studio 60 website (right hand side, look for "A musical Christmas tribute to the city of New Orleans.") Your heart will be touched; it gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes.
§ WITNESS: Incarcerated Man Waited 13 Months for Arraignment
From nola.com and CrimProf Blog:Tulane Law Clinic Criminal Professor Pamela Metzger discovered a Spanish speaking man who spent 13 months in three different Lousiana state prisons without speaking to a single defense attorney, prosecutor, translator or judge before his arraignment.
At his arraignment -- a court proceeding the law requires to take place within, at most, a month after charges are filed -- Pedro Parra-Sanchez could speak only through a translator about his extended stay in a prison system that officials from several agencies admitted simply lost him, failing to secure him the most basic American rights.
In addition to continuing the civil (divorce and succession) work we did last year, this year the UNC Law Pro Bono trip will be working with Professor Metzger and Tulane's Criminal Clinic in sorting through the criminal backlog left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, seeking to release the unjustly detained.
§ READ: UNC Law Students in NOLA December 17-22, 2006
For more on the work UNC Law Pro Bono has done in New Orleans, please visit our blog, For The Good of the Gulf. We'll be updating again week after next as we return to New Orleans for the third time, continuing our tradition. To quote from our letter: "Last year, our Pro Bono Program sent 35 students, one staff person, and two private attorneys to New Orleans during the Winter and Spring Breaks to provide more than 800 hours of pro bono legal services to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Our students were the first organized group of law students to arrive in the Gulf Coast and the first to develop an innovative model of including out-of-state members of the private bar in the efforts."
Just few links to show the timeliness, the serious problem, the serious need to remember New Orleans. A public post, because everyone should bear witness to the ongoing struggle to rebuild.