Mayday New Orleans

The United States will undergo a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the U.N. this year, and the Obama Administration came to New Orleans as the first stop in its multi-city tour to discuss the human rights challenges faced in the U.S.

Members of Mayday guided the officials through the Iberville and the former St Bernard development.

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In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mayday and university students spent MLK day playing games and doing arts & crafts with some of the children of the Iberville.

By Jordan Flaherty

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jordan-flaherty/new-orleans-heart-is-in-h_b_427108.html

New Orleans and Haiti are connected by geography, history, architecture, and family, and news of mass devastation and loss of life in the island nation has hit hard in the Crescent City. Almost every hurricane that has hit our city first brought devastation on our neighbors in Haiti. We are linked not just [...]