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New Orleans Public Housing Defenders Face Terror Charges

As activists continue to fight for people's rights to keep their homes in New Orleans, repression by local authorities is brutal. A trial is about to open in New Orleans of housing activists Jamie "Bork" Laughner and Joy Kohler, who face charges of criminal trespass and possession of a "fake explosive device" following civil disobedience arrests at public housing projects slated for demolition. Laughner was also charged under a Louisiana anti-terrorism law passed as the state's answer to the federal PATRIOT Act.

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