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Jordan Flaherty
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Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. He is an editor of Left Turn Magazine and has written about politics and culture for the Village Voice, New York Press, Labor Notes, Radical Society, and in several books, including the South End Press anthologies Live From Palestine and What Lies Beneath. He is founder and festival director of the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, and has worked in film and photography, editing several feature films, co-producing the award-winning feature Chocolate Babies, and showing his photography at the cutting-edge art gallery PS122 in New York City. His post-Katrina writing in Colorlines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press.
Flaherty’s articles from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina have appeared in periodicals around the world, including Die Zeit in Germany, Clarin in Argentina, Juventude Rebelde in Cuba, Red Pepper in England, and many more from Lebanon to Paris to New Zealand. In the US, his articles have appeared in a wide range of publications from The Indypendent in New York to The SF Bay View in California to literally hundreds of blogs and web-based journals including ZNet, CommonDreams, AlterNet and Counterpunch. In the first months after the hurricane, his writings were translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.
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