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Iron Rail Closed Iron Rail 2011-03-10 8:40 AM
his is a preliminary statement from the Iron Rail Book Collective. A more in depth statement on recent events will be forthcoming. (text/plain + 4 comments)

Arrested at the Eris Parade Anonymous by request 2011-03-09 3:00 PM
This is my personal account of parading in Eris 2011 and the crazy arrests that followed. I hope you can use this or print it somehow.... please feel free to post it anywhere and everywhere. (text/plain + 25 comments)

Permitting Culture Crimes Repost from: Ashley Morris 2011-03-07 7:56 PM
We stayed at Mimi's maybe 40 minutes and had a couple beers then headed home. I had just walked in my door, didn't even have it closed yet, when I heard loud chanting coming from Port and Chartres. "Let them go. Let them go. Let them go." I ran back out the door and ran into a man who had been with Eris who told me that the cops had tried to blockade them at Esplanade, then Franklin, now here at Port. When I walked the half block to the intersection I saw cop cars everywhere, cops with a kid face down on the ground and all had their batons out and their attitudes in evidence. The police were very clearly spoiling for a fight. (text/html + 1 comment)

Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Farce FluxRostrum 2011-03-03 4:26 PM
A 12 hour bull shit session dotted with periodic public displays of animosity. RAW VIDEO (text/html)

Free Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar Screenings Community Center of St Bernard 2011-03-02 5:59 PM
Students and staff from Charity School of Nursing at Delgado Community College will be at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1111 LeBeau St, Arabi on Friday, March 18 from 10 AM until 4 PM to offer free blood pressure screenings and blood sugar testing. The medical outreach sessions will help raise awareness about the importance of monitoring basic health indicators like blood pressure and blood sugar, as well as enable nursing students to gain valuable hands-on experience serving the community. The medical screenings are free to the public, and no appointment is needed. (text/plain)

Dylcia and Cisco on Panthers and Independistas --SF8 Hearing on March 2 Kiilu Nyasha and Angola 3 News 2011-02-28 7:43 AM

This new episode of Freedom is a Constant Struggle (filmed by Angola 3 News) features Dylcia Pagan and Cisco Torres. Dylcia is a Puerto Rican freedom fighter, Independista, and former political prisoner. Cisco is the last member of the SF8 facing charges. He has an evidentiary hearing on March 2, 2011. (image/jpeg)

Mayor’s group made jail decision based on bad info from Sheriff repost of Matt Davis, The Lens staff writer 2011-02-23 3:26 AM

Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman appears to have misled the public about the ownership of a key property that is part of his planned jail complex. Gusman told a jail working group convened by Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the city owned the property. But his office has owned it since 1992, according to public records. The distinction is important because the sheriff’s ownership of the land places him in a more powerful negotiating position with city officials over the new jail. The block is in a strategically important position. (image/jpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Randolph Scott, President of SUNO Alumni Association WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-02-22 4:13 AM
Randolph Scott, President of Southern University of New Orleans' Alumni Association, talks about the history of this historically black college, its destruction post-Katrina and the challenges it faces to maintain its autonomy as Governor Bobby Jindal seeks its elimination. [11min:59sec; 5.48MB] (audio/mpeg)

V Day Housing Protest Mike Howells 2011-02-21 11:32 AM
New Orleanians joined in a national day of action to stop plans by the White House and the Congress to drastically cut federal housing assistance in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The protest also put the spotlight on HUD"s plan to "relocate" 263 units of low income rental housing from the Iberville Development near the French Quarter to the isolated and economically challenged Christopher Homes neighborhood on the other side of the Mississippi River. (text/plain)

Free Art Workshops at the Community Center of St Bernard Community Center of St Bernard 2011-02-12 6:30 PM
Art Workshops will be held at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1111 LeBeau St, Arabi, on February 18, March 4, March 18 and April 1 from 6 - 7:30 PM. The workshop is free and all supplies will be provided. (text/plain)

R. Stephanie Bruno on her book New Orleans Streets Matt Toups 2011-02-11 6:39 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Stephanie Bruno, author of New Orleans Streets [18:40min;8.5MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Zack Kopplin at RepealCreationism.com casey roberts and naomi martin 2011-02-11 5:46 PM
http://www.repealcreationism.com [10:48min;4.5MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Camel Toe Lady Steppers for the Roots of scott eustis 2011-02-11 4:56 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Beth Manley of the Camel Toe Lady Steppers for the Roots of Music Program, a music education and tutoring program for New Orleans Middle Schoolers. On the table is the event at One Eyed Jack's, the history of both the Roots of Music as a post-Katrina program, as well as the history of the Lady Steppers in the Krewe of Muses. [7:10min;2.3MB] (audio/mpeg)

John Clark Addresses the Rally for the Brave People of Egypt francisnblake 2011-02-07 4:07 AM
Thi is a transcript of the speach that John Clark gave yesterday in front of the Hale Boggs Federal Bulding. A video of the speach can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSURyBaBbKM (text/plain)

Obama,Egypt,New Orleans mike howells 2011-02-06 2:15 AM
Obama recently proclaimed Egyptians have universal rights. Agreed. But what about the President's position on the universal rights of poor New Orleanians? On this matter of universal rights Obama's record leaves much to desired. (text/plain)

Jacqui Hermer, post-Levee Break volunteer, reflects on New Orleans on WTUL News & Views WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-02-04 9:54 PM
About a month ago, I interviewed Jacqui Hermer, a post-Katrina volunteer in New Orleans in 2006. She initially gutted houses, helped put together a resource reference guide and then participated and organized a summer education camp for returning New Orleanian kids through an organization called Common Ground. She wrote a chapter called “Pulling Back the Veil: Lessons from Post-Levee Break New Orleans” in the new book "Accountability and White Anti-Racist Organizing: Stories from our work." mp3 [36min:24sec; 33.3MB] (audio/mpeg)

Immigrants Fight to Remain in N.O. with 24 Hour Vigil Outside Sheriff's Office, Lawsuit Matt Olson 2011-02-03 5:57 PM

On what feels like the coldest day of the year in New Orleans, members of the Congress of Day Laborers and their supporters held a 24 hour vigil in front of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office to press for their right to remain in the area. A lawsuit, Cacho v. Gusman, has been filed by a member of the Congress against Marlin Gusman, Orleans Parish Sheriff, whose governance of the prison has resulted in blatant racial profiling and constitutional violations, alleges the lawsuit. More to come. (image/jpeg)

VIDEO ~ The BP Oil Spill Commission Final Report FluxRostrum 2011-02-02 9:33 PM
This is the highlight of the public response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Commission's final report. January 12th 2 members of the commission, after presenting their findings to the president, revealed their conclusions directly to some of those affected by the disaster. (text/html + 1 comment)

Free Legal Advice on Oil Spill Claims Begins February 7 Community Center of St Bernard 2011-01-28 8:06 PM
Free legal advice about oil spill claims at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1111 LeBeau St, Arabi. Begins Feb 7 from 10 AM - 4 PM and continues for 4 weeks. (text/plain)

New Orleans: No Lifeguard on Duty Slingshot 2011-01-24 2:58 AM
Lately people have been dying horribly here in New Orleans. Actually, that's a lie; it's not recent. We've been the U.S. #1 for homicide per capita years running, and the only North American city in Foreign Policy magazine's list of the world's murder capitals. But there must be something different happening just now, because why else would Slingshot, out in California, write the Rail and ask about all the "intense shit" going down in New Orleans? (text/plain)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Dana Eness and Traci Claussen on StayLocal.org Casey Roberts 2011-01-21 9:02 PM
Dana Eness is the Executive Director of the Urban Conservancy, a New Orleans-based nonprofit which focuses on protecting our urban environment; Traci Claussen, founder and CEO of REpurposingNOLA, Triple Bottom Line company launched fall 2009, and StayLocal.org Participant. [24:43min,11.3MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Dana Eness and Traci Claussen on StayLocal.org Casey Roberts 2011-01-21 9:00 PM
Dana Eness is the Executive Director of the Urban Conservancy, a New Orleans-based nonprofit which focuses on protecting our urban environment; Traci Claussen, founder and CEO of REpurposingNOLA, Triple Bottom Line company launched fall 2009, and StayLocal.org Participant. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Shelley Midura on Filibuster Reform Naomi Martin 2011-01-21 8:07 PM
WTUL News and Views interviews Shelley Midura on Filibuster Reform. She reviews the many disfunctions in the U.S. Senate, from secret holds, time-wasting, and other lost opportunities. [10MB; 21min] (audio/mpeg)

Free Income Tax Assistance begins Feb 5 Community Center of St Bernard 2011-01-20 9:17 PM
Free Income Tax Assistance at the Community Center of St Bernard , 1111 LeBeau St, Arabi from 10 AM until 2 PM on the following Saturdays: February 5, February 12, February 26, March 12, March 26, April 2 and April 9. (text/plain)

WTUL News & Views Interviews John O'Neal, SNCC Organizer, Theater Innovator WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-01-19 8:56 PM
On this MLK Day 2011, WTUL interviews John O'Neal, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and then a co-founder of the Free Southern Theater in 1964. [34min:20sec; 19.8MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews OPP Reform Coalition Members WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-01-19 7:43 PM
Two members of the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC)--Rosana Cruz of Voice of the Ex-Offender and Kaii Barrow of Critical Resistance-- came on WTUL News & Views to talk about keeping the proposed new jail facility to a number of beds that makes sense for our population. [23min:38sec; 10.8MB] (audio/mpeg)

9th Ward Fire 2nd Line - video FluxRostrum 2011-01-17 6:49 PM
2nd line for fire victims - video (text/html + 2 comments)

Malcolm Suber on 200th Anniversary of the 1811 La. Slave Revolt WTUL News and Views; Matt Olson 2011-01-12 11:39 PM
Malcolm Suber, New Orleans community activist and revolutionary organizer, came into the WTUL News & Views show on January 5, 2011 to talk about the 1811 Slave Revolt organized between New Orleans and plantations up river. [38min: 40sec; 17.7mb] (audio/mpeg + 4 comments)

Strong Message Delivered on December 18, 2010 Jay Arena 2011-01-11 2:44 AM

On Saturday, December 18, 2010 scores of people rallied in front of the Iberville Public housing development to demand that the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) not award a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant to the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) and City of New Orleans to demolish and privatize the Iberville Public Housing development (image/jpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Derek of 30 days for Laboratory Animals Matt Olsen for WTUL News and Views 2011-01-10 7:07 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Derek of 30 days for animals [28:30min; 13.1MB] http://30daysforanimals.wordpress.com/ (audio/mpeg)

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