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Oral History Interview with Scott Cooper (Part 1)
No full textScott Cooper was born in 1972 in Tennessee, where his father was a Methodist preacher and his mother was a union teacher. He attended Duke University, where he became involved in community organizing through programs like the Interns and Conscience initiative. After graduating, he worked with various community organizations and unions, including the Industrial Areas Foundation, AFSCME, and eventually Unite Here.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1006/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Scott Cooper (Part 2)
No full textScott Cooper was born in 1972 in Tennessee, where his father was a Methodist preacher and his mother was a union teacher. He attended Duke University, where he became involved in community organizing through programs like the Interns and Conscience initiative. After graduating, he worked with various community organizations and unions, including the Industrial Areas Foundation, AFSCME, and eventually Unite Here.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1007/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Wade Rathke
No full textWade Rathke is a long-time community and labor organizer. He grew up in New Orleans and was involved in civil rights and social justice activism from a young age. He helped found the community organization ACORN in 1970 and later established Local 100, an independent labor union, to organize workers in various industries. Rathke has been a central figure in progressive organizing in the South for over 50 years.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1002/thumbnail.jp
Comparison of Finite-amplitude Acoustic Models: Single Equation of Motion for Potential vs System-level Approaches
No full textThis study evaluates two finite-amplitude acoustic models, by solving the associated equations of motion (in potential form), and then compares the results with recent studies using hyperbolic system-level approaches. An implicit numerical method is employed to solve the second-order equations in one dimension. The performances of the Diaz et al. (2018) and Blackstock (1963) models in approximating the acoustic special case of the Euler system, via velocity profile plots and related metrics, are evaluated and compared. Working in the setting of the classical signaling problem with sinusoidal input, present results (using the single equation of motion approach) provide independent confirmation of earlier findings (based on the hyperbolic system-level approach) that the Diaz et al. model outperforms Blackstock’s
Oral History Interview with Barbara Major
No full textBarbara Major is a veteran community organizer from New Orleans, born in 1949. Raised in both the Ninth Ward and rural Washington Parish, she was the first urban-born generation in her agrarian family. She attended George Washington Carver High School and Southern University of New Orleans (SUNO), where she majored in sociology and became involved in campus activism during the Civil Rights and Black Power era. Her career spanned numerous social justice movements, including welfare rights, anti-hunger campaigns, juvenile justice reform, and tenant organizing. She was a key organizer in the St. Thomas housing development and became a nationally recognized anti-racism trainer with the People\u27s Institute for Survival and Beyond.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1026/thumbnail.jp
Defending the Golden Fleece: A Study of Disruption and Resilience in the Movement to Defund Public Libraries in Louisiana
No full textIn this moment of societal change and institutional capture, public educational institutions have become sites of contention where national ideological and political debates are carried out in local school and library board meetings across the country. In Louisiana, the creation and expansion of a statewide conservative organization has led to the defunding of public libraries sparked by accusations of grooming and inappropriate programming. In response, local library defenders have created another statewide organization to share information and organizing strategies to combat disinformation campaigns propagated by conservative organizers at local and state levels. This qualitative study includes in-depth interviews with library defenders across the state as well as the founder of the local conservative organization in the lead up to a spring 2025 election in which four parishes decided whether to renew millages that accounted for most or all of their local library systems’ funding. The theoretical approach here applies Polanyi’s (1944) concept of double movement to the historic development of public libraries while incorporating analyses of education disruption to understand the context of the movement studied here. Findings are divided into four key themes that underpin the motivations of these organizers: Insider/Outsider, Institutional Faith & Distrust, Escalation & Mobilization, and Resilience. These findings, along with the spring 2025 election results, indicate both a potential strategy for library defenders as well as a broader problem facing public libraries as narratives of fear and disinformation around public educational institutions continue to become linchpins of national conservative political mobilization
