On Monday night, there was a fire at the Central City offices of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana and Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children that has been classified as arson. To read more, click here.

The Nagin administration’s repression of the anti-war contingent in the 2004 New Orleans MLK march is another reflection of the total bankruptcy of the US political system from the perspective of working people. Yet, the successful fight back the local anti-war movement mounted in the face of cop intimidation shows the way forward and represented, in microcosm, the expression of a real political alternative for the local working class. To read more, click here.

Join Senator Paulette Irons and the feminist community for a live music & dance party fundraiser for the Louisiana March For Women's Lives Coalition. FEATURING: Charmaine Neville, DJ Mags, Tragic Girls End Up Like This, Maria & The Aftermath, and more! FRIDAY, January 23rd, 2004 at CAFE BRASIL, 2100 Chartres St. @ Frenchman St. Doors: 7pm / Show: 8 pm to midnight, Cover: $5 - $7 sliding scale. All proceeds to fund the New Orleans to Washington, DC bus trip for the April 25, 2004 March for Women's Lives. Please read the newswire article for the story.

President Bush will be in New Orleans on Jan. 15 for a $2,000 a plate fundraiser. Join local activists in protesting the Administration's right-wing agenda: from abortion rights, to the war in iraq, to corporate globalization, to anti-environmental policies, to the PATRIOT Act and other further restrictions on freedom, to prisons, to the war on the poor, to INS detentions. To find out how you can help, check out the Call to Action.

This month organizers, educators, and artists from diverse communities and backgrounds across the nation will converge in New Orleans. From Friday, January 23rd to Sunday the 25th artists, organizers, and educators share ideas, issues, techniques, and plans for invigorating the movement for justice. They will consider the need for and implication of a national collaboration of artists, organizers, and educators. Please read the newswire article for the story.