By Katie Halper • @kthalps • 11 years ago

What We Missed

A federal appeals court has reversed its own decision finding the Army Corps of Engineers partially liable for the flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The court originally held the Army Corps  liable for “monumental negligence,” but has now determined the government is immune to liability.

Women earn less than men in 97 percent of Congressional districts, earning on average 77 cents for every man’s dollar, but in some places earn 61 cents.

Check out this video from Eve Ensler’s One Billion Rising Campaign. (trigger warning until around 1:27)

A good post on Troy Davis’ execution one year later.

Voter suppression targets black women.

Rep. Paul Ryan has promised to get rid of the Obamacare contraception mandate on day one of Romney presidency.

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Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie graduated from The Dalton School (where she teaches history) and Wesleyan University (where she learned that labels are for jars.) A director of Living Liberally and co-founder/performer in Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, D.C. Comedy Festival, all five Netroots Nations, and The Nation Magazine Cruise, where she made Howard Dean laugh! and has appeared with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower. Her writing and videos have appeared in The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine, Gawker, Nerve, Jezebel, the Huffington Post, Alternet and Katie has been featured in/on NY Magazine, LA Times, In These Times, Gawker,Jezebel, MSNBC, Air America, GritTV, the Alan Colmes Show, Sirius radio (which hung up on her once) and the National Review, which called Katie “cute and some what brainy.” Katie co-produced Tim Robbins’s film Embedded, (Venice Film Festival, Sundance Channel); Estela Bravo’s Free to Fly (Havana Film Festival, LA Latino Film Festival); was outreach director for The Take, Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis documentary about Argentine workers (Toronto & Venice Film Festivals, Film Forum); co-directed New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for Museum of the City of NY exhibit, and wrote/directed viral satiric videos including Jews/ Women/ Gays for McCain.

Katie is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, and New Yorker.

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