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Angola Prison May Close Lockdown Unit–But Vows to Keep Inmates in Isolation James Ridgeway and Jean Casella 2010-10-18 5:35 AM

LA has already sold some tracts of land belonging to the DOC, and is considering selling two state prisons outright to the private prison corporations that now operate them.... One possible plan is to close the solitary confinement unit at Angola Prison (image/jpeg)

Iberville election:Somoza's Way mike howells 2010-10-14 1:20 AM
On October 11th the Housing Authority of New Orleans held a resident election at the Iberville Development that would surely have pleased deceased Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. (text/plain)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Karran Harper Royal on Returning Schools to Local Control WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-10-13 11:39 PM
Karran Harper Royal, an education advocate with the Pyramid Community Parent Resource Network, talks about returning public schools from the state-run Recovery School District back to the locally-controlled Orleans Parish School Board and the negligible effect charter schools have had on improving academic performance. [5.57MB; 24min:20sec] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews performance artist Jose Torres Tama Matt Olsen for WTUL News and Views 2010-10-13 6:47 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews performance artist Jose Torres Tama about his show "Aliens, Immigrants, and other Evildoers" (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network Casey Roberts for WTUL News and Views 2010-10-13 6:45 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network (audio/mpeg)

Schools in Louisiana, Nationwide, Organize Against Budget Cuts Nathan Tempey 2010-10-10 2:21 PM
A recent rally at the University of New Orleans coincided with budget cut protests around Louisiana and the country. Organizers at Louisiana universities are calling for broad unity in preparation for a November 10 march on Baton Rouge and future actions against the ongoing budget cuts that could eliminate thousands of jobs and dozens of majors statewide.chi (text/plain)

iberville "election" exposed mike howells 2010-10-09 3:37 AM
The abrupt decision by the Housing Authority of New Orleans to hold what amounts to a "snap" election to place Iberville residents on the newly created Iberville Redevelopment Working Team marks a clear break with long estabilished federal guidelines for holding resident elections in a U.S. public housing development. HANO's flaunting of federal rules set down for resident elections in a public housing development should raise a red flag for all who are aware of the widespread corruption uncovered in the housing authority in recent years by federal investigations. (text/plain)

UNO Students hang banners against budget cuts occupyLA 2010-10-08 5:58 AM
some UNO students hung banners around New Orleans today, Oct. 7th, as part of the National Day of Action for Higher Education. (text/plain)

Really Really Free Market in New Orleans A Grand Success Raquedra 2010-10-06 8:46 PM
At the free market, there is no money. It's like burning man without the flaming statues. Or maybe like a family picnic if the entire city was your kin. Or a massive garage sale where everything is free. People just bring whatever they have to share, and sharing insistently is the only rule. (text/plain)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Shelley Midura, former Councilwoman, on Clean Elections WTUL News & Views; Matt Toups 2010-10-05 2:45 AM
Shelly Midura, former New Orleans Councilwoman from District C (aka Mid-City plus), talks about clean elections and how this country can prevent political corruption, including a campaign reform bill currently in the U.S. House of Representatives. [15.7MB; 17min:09sec] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Abigail Feldman on Growing Home & Blight WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-10-05 2:32 AM
Abigail Feldman is the Director of Growing Home, a program under New Orleans' Recovery Authority for property owners to turn adjacent blighted Road Home properties into landscaped green lots, potentially gardens or fruit orchards. (audio/mpeg)

Save UNO Rally & Block Party Set for Wednesday Save UNO Coalition Press Release 2010-10-05 2:08 AM
The Save UNO Coalition Rally and Block Party for Higher Education is set for Wednesday, October 6th, 12:30pm at the amphitheater on UNO’s Lakefront campus. UNO supporters plans send a clear message to the capitol by protesting the budget cuts and building energy for a state-wide mobilization in Baton Rouge on November 10th. (text/plain)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Leanne and Frazer from the Hermit Crab Survival Project WTUL News and Views; Scott Eustis 2010-10-01 7:21 PM
On the table are the political hurdles that led to cleaning hermit crabs, the ecological importance of hermit crabs and how they are affected by the oil disaster; future documentary work of the Hermit Crab Survival Project [13.7MB; 14:56min] (audio/mpeg)

Public Housing & October 2nd mike howells 2010-09-30 7:20 AM
This is a message promoting a WPA style national public works program and the replenishment and expansion of conventional public housing in the United States. It contains a special call to mobilize public support nationwide to save the Iberville Housing Development from HUD's Choice Neighborhood scheme. (text/plain)

Our School at Blair Grocery up for a FRESH 1% FluxRostrum 2010-09-23 6:51 PM
10 minutes ~ video This is the summer 2010 update from the Our School at Blair Grocery Project. http://www.ourschoolatblairgrocery.org (text/html + 1 comment)

Proposed NORD changes criticized by Safe Streets WTUL News & Views 2010-09-22 10:14 PM
(audio: 22:38) WTUL News & Views talked to Yvette Theirry, Director of Community Organizing for Safe Streets Strong Communities, about the proposal to restructure NORD as a public-private pa (audio/mpeg)

The FBI’s War On Democracy --Claude Marks discusses the new film COINTELPRO 101 Angola 3 News 2010-09-19 11:27 PM

The high point of struggle represented by the loosely used term “the sixties” and the violent repression against it, contains essential lessons for every young person seeking a more just society. More generally, people should not be misled by the myth of democracy, the idea that the system can be made to work for “us” or that those in power will somehow reach a moral epiphany and give up anything of consequence without a fight. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

UNO Chancellor to Field Questions About Restructuring Nathan Tempey 2010-09-15 10:57 PM
University of New Orleans Chancellor Tim Ryan will take questions about the school's restructuring plan at a 12:30 p.m., Thursday, September 16 forum. Administrators prepared the plan in anticipation of the LSU system declaring financial exigency in 2011. The current draft of the UNO plan would eliminate over 100 jobs. (text/plain + 1 comment)

UNO Students Suspended, Campus Police Chief Speaks Nathan Tempey 2010-09-14 11:00 PM
UNO students Peter Reed and Matthew "Gideon" Smith were suspended from school last week, stemming from their arrests at a September 1 demonstration against budget cuts. Campus police chief Harrington offered reporters multiple accounts of the events leading up to the arrests in the administration building. Co-reporting by Jay Todd. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Campaign to stop a new 5,800 "bed" Orleans Parish Prison OPP Campaign 2010-09-14 12:32 AM
HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS SPENT TO REBUILD OUR CITY? (text/plain)

No Place for "Raging Pelican" at Tulane New Orleans Indymedia 2010-09-11 2:09 AM
The Raging Pelican, a newsprint anti-authoritarian publication critical of the Gulf Oil Spill, was not allowed on Tulane University's campus last month at a public meeting called by the Federal Government. Listen to the confrontation with and reasoning of Tulane's campus security. 6min:29, 1.48MB, mp3 (audio/mpeg)

UNO Students Allege Police Misconduct Nathan Tempey 2010-09-06 1:25 AM
The police version of the events surrounding the two arrests at the Wednesday September 1 University of New Orleans walkout protest is disputed by students. Witnesses of the altercations in the administration building claim campus police beat one of the two arrested students with batons as they aggressively cleared the ground floor. This article was written to appear in a special edition of the Driftwood (UNO student newspaper) which did not make it to press. (text/plain)

Help Save Iberville mike howells 2010-09-05 3:24 AM
HUD and HANO are launching yet another attempt to demolish the Iberville Housing Development. Iberville is a public housing development that contains 850 apartments for very low income people. This article points to steps that readers can take to prevent the destruction of the neighbrhood. (text/plain)

Vermilion 380: Another Capitalist Oil Disaster Larry Everest / Revolution Newspaper 2010-09-03 10:51 PM

Thursday, September 2, New Orleans, Louisiana--This morning the Gulf of Mexico was again assaulted by yet another oil disaster – an oil disaster rooted in capitalism, and one that shows – once again – that this system is not a fit caretaker of the planet. Around 9:00 am, near Vermilion Bay, some 100 miles off the coast of southwest Louisiana (about 200 miles west of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig), an oil and natural gas production platform run by Mariner Energy of Houston exploded and caught fire. Thankfully no one was killed, and the 13 from the platform were rescued. (image/jpeg)

Info on Occupation plus all TV Coverage reposted by New Orleans Indymedia 2010-09-02 1:42 AM

At 7am (CST) the Milneburg Hall at the University of New Orleans was occupied. However, by 8:40am, UNO PD were on the scene and removed the occupiers. While none of the occupiers were arrested then, at least 2 students have been arrested today during the walkout. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Several protesting UNO students arrested after storming chancellor's office repost 2010-09-02 1:25 AM
Several students were reportedly apprehended by the University of New Orleans campus police after storming the office of the chancellor and getting into an altercation with authorities. The school has seen its budget slashed, faculty laid off and services cut as state legislators look to close a massive hole. Approximately 150 to 200 students protested the massive budget cuts to the university, chanting and demanding changes at the school. (text/plain)

UNO Occupation Participant Speaks Out New Orleans Indymedia 2010-09-02 1:15 AM
An anonymous statement sent to the press by a University of New Orleans student who occupied Milneburg Hall on the lakefront campus. This small organized action of occupation by several individuals came before the larger student walkout at University of New Orleans, which, at the earliest of reports, constituted around 100 participating students. (text/plain)

WTUL News and Views Interviews the UNO Walkout Scott Eustis 2010-09-01 3:08 PM
in an interview with WTUL News, a student participating in the UNO walkout explains the reason for civil disobedience: unjust service cuts that weigh heavily on financially strapped students while leaving administrators untouched. [3.1MB at 6:49min] (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

BREAKING... UNO students have seized and barricaded Milneburg hall at UNO UNO walkout 2010-09-01 3:01 PM
UNO students have occupied Milneburg Hall on the UNO lakefront campus, in protest of service cuts, lost jobs, and lowered salaries and furloughs. (text/plain)

Free Meditation Classes on Sept 2 & 9 Community Center of St Bernard 2010-08-29 12:53 AM
Free sitting meditation practices at the Community Center of St Bernard annex, 1111 LeBeau St, Arabi, on September 2 and September 9 from 6:30 – 7:30 PM. (text/plain)

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