Obama: Criminal justice system is not color blind. We need a system of justice that is not just us. I’ve worked on this at the state level.

Kucinich: Get rid of mandatory minimums. We know who’s serving those mandatory minimums. Get rid of death penalty.

Gravel: If you don’t have any money, you don’t get any justice. The only way you’re going to get justice is by making the laws yourselves by becoming lawmakers. Right now there’s no justice, it’s just politics.

Gravel is giving off a bit of a “Bulworth” vibe tonight.

Hillary: Go after racial profiling and mandatory minimums.

Biden: Eliminate disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine.

Martin asks about a “guaranteed right of return” to New Orleans based on United Nations regulations.

Kucinich says levees should have been repaired when people said they had to be repaired.

Gravel: If we weren’t squandering our treasure on this terrible war, we would have four million housing units available.

Dodd: New Orleans and Katrina symbol of everything that has gone wrong with this administration. Make it a symbol of what can go right in America.

Hillary: Got to get the hospitals, law enforcement, fire department. Accuses Bush administration of criminal negligence.

Biden: Don’t need U.N., the Constitution is sufficient. This is American city, an American problem.

Richardson: We need to make sure FEMA is directly under the president. Get rid of all burdensome loans that we taken out. Tell the insurance companies you have to cover these people and rebuild these houses.

Edwards: I announced my campaign in seventh ward… I would have person accountable and ask them every day, “what happened yesterday?”

Obama: Halliburton and Bechtel should not be getting rebuilding contracts. It compounds the outrage.

They’re asked about outsourcing. Let me guess, they’re all against it.

Gravel says the problem isn’t outsourcing, it’s trade deals.

Dodd says it’s a huge issue. We’re exporting jobs.

Clinton: I’ve dealt with outsourcing. I’ve tried to stand against the tide of outsourcing. (As she talks about education, a woman with a Hillary sticker nods approvingly).

Biden: We’ve got to take burden of health care off corporations. Cites infrastructure upgrades.

Richardson: Improve teaching of math and science.

Actually, tonight is one of Richardson’s better performances.

Edwards: Cites Dad’s troubles at the mill when the jobs went somewhere else.

Obama cites experience with retraining workers in inner-city Chicago.

I notice that PBS shows a lot more audience reaction shots. I must have seen Harry Belafonte and Al Sharpton at least three times tonight.

Kucinich mentions “grass growing in the parking lot” of closed plants. Cancel NAFTA. For a small portion of the crowd, it’s an issue that garners loud applause.