How to Help

If you feel like making a donation or contribution or volunteering or participating as an activist, here are some places to do it.

http://www.commongroundrelief.org/
Where I worked in New Orleans. They do all kinds of work in the community from legal assistance to healthcare to gutting houses.

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8219
This organization is gutting thousands of houses for free. The WCL students who did physical labor worked with them.

http://www.advancementproject.org/katrina.html
This group is fighting the many legal battles against FEMA and Housing Authority of New Orleans. The website has a lot of great resources for learning more about these cases as well as link to write to your congressperson about housing issues in New Orleans. At Common Ground Legal we worked on research projects to help this group with some of its cases.

http://www.neworleansworkerjustice.org/
This group is fighting against the exploitation of (mostly immigrant) workers during the rebuilding of New Orleans. One of the main projects I worked on at Common Ground was a research report for this group.