tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-356254773807062102012-02-10T01:13:14.925-05:00We are the Fordham chapter of Student Hurricane Network, a national network of law students dedicated to helping the people of the Gulf Coast rebuild and improve their lives in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This Blog has been set up for all those who have participated on any of Fordham's SHN trips to the Gulf Coast. We encourage each of you to share your thoughts, experiences, comments and photos.Fordham Student Hurricane Networknoreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35625477380706210.post-71370278747169758832010-03-03T20:47:00.013-05:002010-03-31T12:38:30.090-05:00

The Fordham Disaster Relief Network (“DRN”) is sending students to Haiti to volunteer for disaster relief and we need your support to make our trip a success. DRN is partnering with Voices for Haiti (voicesforhaiti.org) to run a day camp for orphans and other children affected by the disaster. Our hope is to provide a week of entertainment and diversions for the children who have experienced

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At my first Property class, the professor asked us to state our name and an interesting fact about ourselves. As we went around the room, the class revealed all different types of personalities – outdoor enthusiasts, budding politicians, and literature fanatics. The professor had asked us to do this because he said it was important to remember what we loved doing, especially as we were about to

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Here are some photos of the DAP team hard at work (and one from our group orientation at Tulane Law)

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Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344306976566661417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35625477380706210.post-66232715385860420562009-01-11T22:33:00.001-05:002009-01-11T22:42:56.473-05:00

Here are pictures of the volunteers who worked in the lower ninth ward with the Sierra Club.

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For a glimpse of some of the work Fordham's group did this week, check out this article from the local newspaper Houma Today, featuring Fordham SHN board member George Kottas.http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090110/ARTICLES/901109982?Title=Want_a_copy_of_Lafourche_s_storm_plan__No_problem

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With a new year comes a new group of Fordham students volunteering in New Orleans. 25 students and 1 staff member have traveled down and begin working on Monday the 5th. We have volunteers working at the Sierra Club, Disaster Accountability Project, and the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center.

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We got this great thank-you from the Louisiana Justice Institute-- we're glad we were able to help out!Dear Dean Treanor:In early January, the Louisiana Justice Institute had the pleasure of hosting law student volunteers from Fordham Law School. I am writing now to commend your students for their excellent work. It was also a pleasure for us to have the students with us for the week; they

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Hey all-- just a quick shout-out from the 32 strong Fordham SHN contingency working in New Orleans during a cold New Years week. This year we're working at the Pro Bono Project, the Orleans Public Defenders Office, and with the Louisiana Institute for Justice. More to report as the week and new year progress!

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http://www.wdsu.com/news/14890551/detail.html

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This year's SHN board is currently working hard to find placements for the great number of students who have shown interest in this year's trip! We plan on travelling to the Gulf Coast 12/30-01/05 this year.

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On October 1st, the Louisiana Supreme Court and State Bar Association honored our all-star PIRC director Hillary Exter for all the work she's done and continues to do both within our SHN chapter an beyond! We couldn't be happier and can't think of anyone who deserves this more!From Fordham Law's press release (http://law.fordham.edu/ihtml/news-2details.ihtml?id=612&nid=629):The Supreme Court of

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Life goes on....but should it? Shouldn't it stop? When something so tragic and momentous happens shouldn't the world stop?How can everything just go on? Shouldn't we all stop and help pick up the pieces? Help rebuild?If it were us, wouldn't we want life to pause? Just for a second? When it happens to us, and it will, in one way or another, how will we feel as we see life carry on around us?

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Our friend Morgan Williams is helping create an exciting collaborative for the summer. The aim is to create a network that provides a forum for 2007 NYC summer intern law students to socialize, network, and exchange ideas about social justice work. The first event is this Tuesday, June 12th, at Sweet and Vicious at 7pm (5 Spring St, www.sweetandvicious.com). Email summerinterncollaborative@

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The Little Things Give You Awaywater greythrough the windowsup the stairschilling rainlike an oceaneverywheredon't want to reach for me do youi mean nothing to youthe little things give you awayand now there will be no mistakingthe levees are breakingall you've ever wantedwas someone to truly look up to youand six feet / underwateri dohope decaysgenerations disappearwashed awayas a nation simply

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A few days ago we heard from Bill Quigley the awesome news that the Louisiana State Bar Association has awarded Morgan Williams its first ever Law Student Pro Bono Award! Morgan Williams is a graduating Tulane Law Student, who was one of the founding members of SHN. Here is a picture of Morgan, speaking at the 2006 Equal Justice Works Awards Dinner in Washington D.C. (while a few familiar faces

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The New York State Bar Association's luncheon for recipients of the President's Pro Bono Service Award was a fun time, and a great chance to meet up with some of the SHN folks at other New York schools such as Touro, Columbia, Brooklyn, Cardozo and others. Abe, Anamaria, Hillary and Tom were able to make it up to Albany to represent Fordham's chapter of SHN, and we're proud to bring home what we

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The 2006-2007 SHN Board, Jeremy Pfetsch, Abraham Salcedo, Anamaria Segura and Larry Spollen would like to thank everyone who made this year such a success! Very special thanks to everyone from the Public Interest Resource Center, especially Hillary Exter, without whose encouaragement and support we wouldn't have had the year that we did. And what a year it was! From collaborating on the SHN

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Congratulations to the newly elected 2007-2008 Fordham SHN Board: Denise Biderman, Aisha Jones, George Kottas, Janos Marton, Ken Moy and Emilie Williams! We look forward to handing over the reins to you all, and know that you will do a fantastic job.

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We're proud to announce that the Student Hurrciane Network will be the recipient of the New York State Bar Association's President's Pro Bono Service Award for extraordinary pro bono service! Hillary Exter, as ever a huge supporter of SHN, was one of the nominators. The award will be presented at a Law Day event in Albany on April 30th. Anamaria, Abe, Hillary Exter and Tom Schoenherr will travel

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Dear NOLA,Thank you. For no place has left such an impression on me, not the way you have. We have only spent four short weeks together over the past year and three months, but it feels like I have known you forever. I came to you on a whim and now I cannot imagine my life without you. Whether it was slight of hand or twist of fate, in January 2006 I arrived in the land of the Saints, though

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Hello everyone, and welcome home! I had a great time this Spring Break and hope you all did too. Here is one of the pictures from our trip:I've posted most of them on my Flickr site. Check them out at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/anamariasegura/sets/72157600005439929/ See you all at school!

Anamariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535266682907734181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35625477380706210.post-54871044845799749162007-03-16T17:41:00.000-05:002007-03-18T14:05:25.973-05:00

Greetings From the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center ("LCAC")! Today we finished up our fifth and final day of work at the LCAC in New Orleans. Our crew consisted of Fordham students Anamaria, Phil, Jeremy and Deana, as well as two students from George Mason, Andrea and Stefan. Our project has been loosely named the "Fourth Amendment Project." In the words of our supervising attorney on the

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Hello from New Orleans! As it turns out it's been difficult to find time to blog while we've been out here, but there will be posts coming very soon! I thought I'd kick off the blogging by celebrating a couple of my favorite food picks from this (and other) trips: Pick #1: The cheeseburger (medium-rare) from Port of Call, on Esplanade and Dauphine. Served along with the first baked potato I've

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Once again Fordham SHN returns to the Gulf Coast with the full force of 17 students and one PIRC Administrator for Spring Break. This is Fordham SHN's 4th trip to the region since December 2005. The group will be in New Orleans from Sunday March 11th until Saturday March 17th. The students will be working with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, the Gert Town Revival Initiative and the

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NATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITYTuesday - February 20, 2007It’s time once again to join with law schools across the country in a National Day of Solidarity, which will take place on February 20, Fat Tuesday, or otherwise known as Mardi Gras!Last year’s National Day of Solidarity was a great success. And this year it is time to once again to remind the public that the struggle is not over, that tens of

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Mardi Gras will be here soon and we've got some great events coming up this week.This Is My Home (a documentary)Tuesday, February 20th, 200712:30 PMRoom 303 Fordham Law SchoolOn Tuesday February 20th, Mardi Gras, over 30 law schools across the country will be holding events to observe a day of solidarity with the residents of the Gulf Coast affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Here at Fordham

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Dear Friends,Support displaced public housing residents from New Orleans in their fightto go home. Displaced residents have traveled to Washington, DC to maketheir voices heard, but *they need our help *in telling their stories. Pleasetake *5 minutes *on *Monday, February 5th *to help New Orleanians in theirbattle to return home.*The Situation: *50 displaced public housing residents are in DC for

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It took me far too long to get around to doing this, but I have finally posted photos on Flickr of all three of the Fordham SHN trips - January 2006 and 2007, and March 2006. Check them out, add comments, make corrections if I got any descriptions wrong, and enjoy!January 2007 - These are all taken by Guy Eddon, and are almost all of Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi. Thanks Guy!http://

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Last year as an SHN volunteer I found myself working in New Orleans during the first week of 2006. Realizing that there was still much work to be done, this year I decided to return to the Gulf Coast, but this time to Mississippi.Accommodations Once again I found myself in a church, but the dig’s were quite different. Last year I shared a gymnasium with 50 students snoring and squeaking away on

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - PHOTO OPPORTUNITYMLK Day: St. Bernard Residents Go through Fence, Clean Out ApartmentsNew Orleans, LA (January 15, 2007) –With mops and buckets in hand,displaced residents of the St. Bernard Public Housing Project will gothrough the barbed wire fence surrounding their homes to clean andrehabilitate them. On Monday, January 15, Martin Luther King Day, theresidents will

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For anyone interested in listening to the radio programs that the SHN was asked to participate in please use the following link:http://archive.wbai.org/Then find the show entitled "Building Bridges" on 1/8/07 at 7pm. SHN talks about their experiences in New Orleans during the first 20 minutes or so.The second show is entitled "Wakeup Call" on 1/10/07 at 7am. SHN discusses during the last 18

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The Fordham SHN Winter Break Trip was a great success! Thank you to all who helped us out, through participating, helping plan, supporting, attending fundraisers and everything else you all did to make the trip possible! We are very proud of what Fordham students have accomplished over the course of the past year, through their participation with SHN trips and other SHN work!Just some background

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Welcome!This Blog has been set up for all those who have participated on any of Fordham's SHN trips to the Gulf Coast. We encourage each of you to share your thoughts, experiences, comments and photos.

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