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February 9, 2021

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Following Mayor LaToya Cantrell's announcement of new restrictions shutting down bars across the city and limiting packaged alcohol sales in the French Quarter for Mardi Gras weekend, both tourism industry executives and New Orleans workers have taken to the internet - and the streets - with differing messages.

New Orleans Hospitality Workers’ Alliance To Hold March on July 9th to Demand the Defunding of Police

July 8, 2020

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Currently, 63% of our city budget goes to cops, jails, and reactive measures. Only 3% goes to children and families, and 1% to job development. Hospitality workers bring in 9.1 billion dollars a year to the New Orleans economy. We have a right to the wealth we produce. We refuse to accept that billions in […]

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Tourism Industry and Workers Clash on How to Handle Mardi Gras