I was wondering about the borded up but livable houses in New Orleans that Greg Palast filmed, and googled, and appararently there was a HANO Resident Advisory Board Consultation Meeting yesterday(?) and Common Ground has audio clips. I assume there will be further updates there.

from Common Ground's report:

6:30 pm Live report from the meeting by Matt Olson:

A very intense situation is developing as public housing residents and community leaders battle to have their voices heard at the HANO Resident Advisory Board Consultation Meeting.

People chanting "People First!" tried to amend the agenda to have the residents heard before HANO's presentations.

I'm going to a conference tomorrow. See here for details. I debated posting: the webcast and podcast pages don't have any instructions ... but maybe they'll be live when the conference is going on, and if it is broadly availible, I wanted to give interested people a heads-up.

Local story/announcement in the Daily Illini describes the panels:

Thursday's talks will be located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications auditorium, and feature discussions on medicinal preparedness, the use of computers in an effort to prevent fallout, the rebuilding of New Orleans and the use of technology to create connections between peoples.  Friday includes panels on social entrepreneurship, race and class issues, and social justice. The summit concludes on Saturday with a town hall meeting.

a list of the panel titles follows