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 Over two hundred march from Armstrong park through the Central Business District to New Orleans City Hall to commemorate International Workers Day. Starting from Armstrong Park members of the Congress of Day Laborers, an organized group of Latino day laborers, led the crowd. They were followed by The Hot Eight, a local brass band. Most of those in attendance arrived shortly after the storm to help with the rebuilding efforts. They have suffered severe exploitation as many employers withheld pay from them for weeks at a time. They also were required to work in very unsafe and unsanitary conditions without proper protective equipment.
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 On May 1, New Orleans Indymedia launched the inaugural issue of "Arise," a quarterly print project covering a broad net of social justice issues affecting our city. View and read ARISE: New Orleans Indymedia Quarterly hereTo have your writings considered for the quarterly, please contribute to this website! Or become involved in Indymedia by attending our next open meeting, Friday May 23 at 7pm (location TBA on our calendar), or emailing us at imc-neworleans@lists.indymedia.org
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April 21st, 2008, was the first day of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit, in which the presidents of Mexico and the United States, and the prime minister of Canada met to discuss security and trade, as well as the neoliberal and militaristic integration of North America. In protest, the local community organizers of New Orleans held the People's Summit, in which visiting activists met with local organizers to discuss the history of racism, oppression and capitalism in North America and how to resist those things now and into the future. CLICK to read another activist take on the People's Summit...Ottawa Indymedia's CoverageOfficial United States Government Website on the Security and Prosperity Partnership: www.spp.gov
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This is the story of four men who spent time on death row and who, after protesting their innocence and making legal injunctions and appeals to that end, were exonerated. All four discuss the process of being arrested, sentenced by a jury often not of their peers, the psychology of time in jail and on death row and having to adjust back to "the outside" for a crime they never committed.
Six of the protestors arrested at the public housing demonstration outside of city council on December 20, 2007 were convicted of disturbing the peace on Wednesday morning in Orleans Parish Criminal Court. Judge Paul Sens sentenced each protestor to community service, though the conviction, if upheld after appeal, will appear as a misdemeanor on their record.
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