In an attempt to use new media tools like blogging, podcasting and Web video publishing to tell the world whether human rights abuses are taking place in southeastern U.S. areas recovering from August 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Chartreuse (Prince Campbell) yesterday announced his "Team New Orleans."

Chartreuse will send three citizen journalists on the truth-gathering mission: Mishikea Brathwaite, from Los Angeles; Travis Campbell, a New Orleans native, from San Francisco; and Loren Feldman, from New York City.  Candice Quates (blog), who lives in New Orleans, will also help Chartreuse's envoys as they interview people within a 150-mile-wide area starting on Friday, August 11.

The mission's progress will be covered at NewOrleansNow.org.  Please blog about this.  Tell everyone you know - maybe together we can improve this sad situation.

Follow The Blog Herald, The Blogging Times and Know More Media as we watch Chartreuse and his team try to unravel the truth and publish it to the world.  As you do, please compare apologetic mainstream media reports of the National Guard forcing people from their homes in New Orleans to small-scale productions like The Drive (a ground-level look at the continuing state of devastation in some Katrina-affected areas).  This new effort will shed light on which version is more accurate.

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