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NEW ORLEANS CALLS FOR PEOPLES SOLUTION TO GULF CATASTROPHE Michael Steinberg 2010-05-15 6:17 PM
People came together at the federal building in New Orleans Friday to protest the complicity of the government and the oil industry that has resulted in the current catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. They also began to formulate a people's response to the current crisis. (text/plain)

A Christian Perspective on Prisons --An interview with Stan Moody Angola 3 News 2010-05-13 10:57 PM

Only as the public becomes aware of the enormous cost of the revolving door of incarceration will they begin to pay attention to what is going on inside and how we might change the dynamic. Corrections has taken full advantage of this denial by essentially saying, “You cannot possibly understand what we are up against.” They have built incarceration into a growth industry that is sapping our national strength and shredding our decency. (image/gif)

Drug Bust or Racist Revenge? The ongoing story of the Jena Six Jordan Flaherty 2010-05-13 8:15 PM
Sheriff Scott Franklin of Jena says he is trying to rid his community of drugs. Critics say he is pursuing a vendetta against the town’s Black community. At four am on July 9 of last year, more than 150 officers from 10 different agencies gathered in a large barn just outside Jena, Louisiana. The day was the culmination of an investigation that Sheriff Scott Franklin said had been going on for nearly two years. Local media was invited, and a video of the Sheriff speaking to the rowdy gathering would later appear online. The Sheriff called the mobilization “Operation Third Option,” and he said it was about fighting drugs. However, community members say that Sheriff Franklin’s actions are part of an orchestrated revenge for the local civil rights protests that won freedom for six Black high school students - known internationally as the Jena Six - who had been charged with attempted murder for a school fight. One thing is clear: the Sheriff spent massive resources; yet officers seized no contraband. Together with District Attorney Reed Walters, Sheriff Franklin has said he is seeking maximum penalties for people charged with small-time offenses. Further, in a parish that is eighty-five percent white, his actions have almost exclusively targeted African Americans. In a town with just over three hundred Black residents, he sent his 150 officers only into the town’s Black neighborhood. (text/plain + 3 comments)

CA Governor Candidate Alexander, SPUSA: BP Oil Spill a Crime not a Disaster William Wharton 2010-05-13 5:36 PM
The explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig that released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has been called a “Disaster” by many. It isn’t a disaster. It is a crime. (text/plain)

n.o. statement is solidarity with gulf coast community mike howells 2010-05-10 10:15 PM
Below is a statement from working class New Orleanians issued in the spirit of solidarity with their brothers and sisters on the Gulf Coast now confronting the BP oil spill. The main thrust of this statement is that securing justice for the Gulf Coast requires that BP oil and the U.S. government be held accountable for their complicity in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (text/plain)

November Vigil 2010 - Converge on Fort Benning, Georgia SOA Watch 2010-05-04 7:38 PM
November 18-21, 2010: Close the SOA and take a stand for justice in the Americas. (text/plain)

Gloria “Mama Glo” Irving--Presente! Jay Arena 2010-05-04 3:14 AM

We have lost a loving, joyful lifelong New Orleanian and important fighter for racial and economic justice. Gloria “Mama Glo” Irving, who was a leader in the right of return struggle in New Orleans, and relentless opponent of the ruling class’ racial and class cleansing agenda following Hurricane Katrina, passed away last week at the age of 75. Let her life be an inspiration for all of us to redouble our efforts AGAINST this racist, capitalist system, and FOR another city, country and world that places meeting human need--not extracting profits through exploitation of workers and nature--as its organizing principle. (image/jpeg)

Give Central City Homeless Jobs Not Jail! mike howells 2010-05-04 1:45 AM
The following is a statement issued at the May Day Action on Oretha Castle for a WPA style national public works program. It addresses and denounces stepped up official harrassment of homeless people in Central City following an April 10 press conference by "concerned" homeowners that demonized homeless people in the area. (text/plain)

Acoustic Trigger Needed; 11 Victims Named repost 2010-05-02 7:41 AM
Oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the well beneath where a British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig exploded at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day, a rate five times greater than earlier estimates, the US government reported late Wednesday night. US Coast Guard officials said a scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had reached the conclusion based on aerial surveys of the slick. (text/plain)

Volunteering report (May 1st) Will K. 2010-05-01 7:09 PM
Still Looking for a clear path: Day and a half later I have a call back from from the government/BP hotline. They called back to correct the spelling of my name. No questions about my availability, location, ability to travel. I asked if they were putting people in the field yet, they dodged the first time, said yes the second, and then were unable to say where. This is the number, get on the list anyway: Oil Report Line/Volunteer Line – (866)-448-5816 I think we are all biting at the bit trying to figure out a way to help, and one of the sad truths for our wetlands is they aren't like a beach were you can run out and try and help. Protecting the wetlands takes time, planning, dedication, and legislation. So, how to help remains the question of the day. The organizations in alabama and Mississippi seem to be doing the best work so far. They are cleaning beaches, blocking inflow points for critical areas, they seem to be providing outlets for volunteers readily. For Louisiana wetlands I expect volunteer opportunities to open up in the next couple days as the horror unfolds, but until then the Bayous and Wetlands Hold us at bay from our hearts dream of helping to protect them from oil, just as they hold the storms back from our cities. A barrier hard passed. Here are some list of resources: (text/plain + 3 comments)

Et in Arcadia, Oil! Darwin BondGraham 2010-05-01 4:57 PM
The Cajun "paradise" lost in southern Louisiana. The entire Gulf Coast wetlands ecosystem is a delicate and profound balance of tides, winds, and ocean temperatures. It's almost cosmic. Tides push and pull vast and deep columns of water through narrow passes into lakes and bays and back out to the open ocean. This is a marine cardiovascular system on a continental scale, one supporting waters that roil with life. Winds move shallow layers of salt water toward the shore and push back with undercurrents of brackish and freshwater from lakes like Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Salvador. The coastal prairies and cypress swamps breath. Water temperatures and salt concentrations from the edge of the continental shelf and as close as the shallows of Chandeleur Sound and Barataria Bay trigger complex movements of sea life, telling them when to spawn and where to feed. Larger seasonal shifts provide signals to migratory birds, ushering them to land upon horizon-to-horizon beds of grass where they feed from the bounty all around. (text/html + 2 comments)

Deepshit Horizon: Earth Day began with a blow-out, has it finally ended with one? repost 2010-04-28 2:05 AM

Ironically, and tragically, this year's Earth Day celebrations coincided with another oil rig blow-out, this time offshore of Louisiana. Like other recent mining disasters, the explosion and sinking of the rig caused by a well blow-out has claimed the lives of at least eleven workers. (image/jpeg)

BP boasts of record profits as men and sea creatures die in Gulf of Mexico D. Grant Haynes 2010-04-27 11:00 AM
Evo Morales was correct in his recent observation that capitalism is the main enemy of the Earth. (text/plain)

At Angola Prison, Does Jesus Christ Save? Stan Moody 2010-04-27 6:39 AM

Between the glowing press reports on Burl Cain's work, there are hints that gaining access to prison programming — education programs, for example — may be conditional on whether a prisoner is willing to embrace evangelical Christianity. (image/jpeg)

The Deepwater Horizon disaster D. Grant Haynes 2010-04-25 9:54 AM
The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster underlines again the dangers to men and the environment inherent in offshore drilling. The Obama plan for drilling on the East Coast should be abandoned. (text/plain)

"The People Speak" Showing in New Orleans Gimena Gordillo 2010-04-22 8:56 PM
For the first time, The People Speak, narrated by Howard Zinn, will be screened in New Orleans. (text/plain)

Video of SRLC Protest on Youtube francisnblake 2010-04-12 5:35 AM
These are embeds of videos posted to Youtube the day after the protests (in chronological order), about half an hour in total. (text/html + 3 comments)

250 March for Healthcare & Education Against Repub Cuts Matt Olson 2010-04-10 11:04 PM

The Southern Republican Leadership Conference, featuring Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Louisiana's own Governor Bobby Jindal, came to New Orleans this weekend and was met by at least 300 protesters in the street. The local focus of the protest: stop cutting education and social services, like health care, first when balancing Louisiana's budget. [PHOTO: UNO Professors Rachel Luft and Steve Striffler in Lafayette Square on Friday] (image/jpeg)

GOP Welcome Banner Drop in CBD, NOLA Anon 2010-04-09 8:01 PM

A banner was dropped from a parking garage in the Central Business District in New Orleans, LA today, providing a welcoming message to republicans attending the 2010 Republican Southern Leadership Conference. (image/jpeg)

Who Dat ? International Who? Dat International 2010-04-09 5:03 AM
----Please forward far and wide!!!---- The Who Dat? International is calling for a black and gold block Friday April 9th to march in the Second Line for Healthcare. Please wear black and gold to show the winning spirit of our city to the visiting Republicans and any other big politicians and corporate types that want to get between our fair people and its health-care and education! See Ya'll there (text/plain)

2010 Topanga Film Festival wants to hear from New Orleans Milena Rimassa 2010-04-08 4:43 PM

Topanga Film Festival, now in its 6th year, seeks voice and vision from New Orleans to participate in the Suitable for All Screens Competition -- dedicated to bettering the planet one media work at a time (image/jpeg)

New Orleans Angola 3 Support Angola 3 News 2010-04-08 5:27 AM

Below is an excerpt from the new issue of the newsletter published by the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. This excerpt focuses on organizing in New Orleans. You can read the full newsletter at our main website. (image/jpeg)

Free Financial Literacy Class on April 14 Community Center of St Bernard 2010-04-01 2:06 AM
Free financial literacy class on April 14 from 2pm to 3 pm at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 LeBeau, Arabi. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Republicans Convening in New Orleans in April SRLC Welcoming Committee 2010-03-30 9:30 PM
The Welcoming Committee seeks to build a decentralized coalition to present a response to the Republican presence in our city of New Orleans from Apri1 8-11. We believe in our collective struggle and the possibility of a world beyond oppression, domination, war and empire. Following are our points of unity. We invite all individuals and groups committed to these ideas to participate in the Welcoming Committee! (text/html)

Media Justice and the Crime of Poverty --An interview with Tiny from POOR Magazine Angola 3 News 2010-03-27 4:34 AM

Tiny (aka Lisa Gray–Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, PO' Poet, spoken word artist, welfareQUEEN, lecturer, Indigena Taina/Boriken/Irish mama of Tiburcio and daughter of Dee and the co–founder and executive director of POOR Magazine/ PoorNewsNetwork. (image/jpeg)

Free Tips on Healthy Eating on March 30 Community Center of St Bernard 2010-03-26 12:29 AM
Tips on Healthy Eating at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 Lebeau St, Arabi on March 30 from 10 AM to noon. (text/plain)

Their crime was to be black at the wrong time in the US Gordon Roddick, The Big Issue In Scotland 2010-03-24 12:12 AM

As a new film charts the story of the Angola 3, wrongly imprisoned in America’s most notorious penitentiary for 37 years, the documentary’s producer and Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick tells of the campaign, started by his late wife Anita, to reverse the injustice. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

March to Fulfill the Dream Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign 2010-03-17 12:59 AM
Historic march and caravan led by poor people goes from New Orleans to the U.S Social Forum in Detroit (text/html)

Free Acupuncture Sessions March 23-25 Community Center of St Bernard 2010-03-12 8:11 PM
Free acupuncture sessions March 23-25 from 10 AM until 2 PM at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St, Arabi. (text/plain)

Free St Patrick's Day Dinner Dance on Mar 16 Community Center of St Bernard 2010-03-12 8:09 PM
Free St Patrick's Day Dinner Dance on March 16 from 5-9 PM at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St, Arabi. (text/plain)

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