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Cynthia Wiggins, public housing resident and organizer, said at the recent HANO Board meeting, in which 250+ residents wrested control of the meeting from the hands of the newly appointed HUD reciever, Donald Babers, "What are you going to do, start arresting women and children?"
No Human is Illegal! New Orleans will Participate in the National Day of Action for Human Dignity and Immigrant Rights..
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 Thousands
March in New
Orleans for Voting, Human Rights
On Saturday, April 1 2006, several thousand people marched across
the Mississippi River Bridge
from the Convention Center in New Orleans to Gretna, Louisiana to
protest human rights abuses
that occurred following hurricane Katrina and the upcoming mayoral
elections on April 22.
NAACP Voting Rights Hotline for New Orleans Voters 1-866-Our Vote (866-687-8683)
Story 1
Quicktime movie of march with interviews (courtesy of MBlack of NOTV collective) 1
Interviews with March Participants 1
Chuck Mills, People's
Institute, 2
Ron
Walters, 3, 4
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Amy Goodman, host of the national radio news program Democracy Now!, will be in Baton Rouge this April 7th, 2006. She will give a public talk at LSU at 7:30pm that evening. She will also be in New Orleans on Saturday, April 8, 5 p.m. at Tulane University's McAlister Auditorium
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 Around 85 students and organizers from across the country joined community members and risked arrest by re-entering Martin Luther King Elementary School in the devastated Lower 9th Ward today. The cleanup, which began on thursday, had been stopped late friday by the NOPD. Outside the school, a crowd of around 300 gathered wearing Tyvek suits and respirators, holding hand painted signs and chanting to oncoming traffic. In an ongoing effort to rebuild New Orleans, residents of the Lower Ninth Ward requested that these supporters clean the school out.
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