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Gahiji Barrow Interviews Marika Maypop For Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Gahiji Barrow, WTUL News & Views 2012-12-17 3:19 PM
In honor of International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers Marika Maypop talks about sex workers rights and plight. 21 minutes (audio/mpeg)

Caged in the USA: Torture in America’s many prisons Aviva Stahl, reprinted by Angola 3 News 2012-12-13 4:18 AM

Below is an article, reprinted in full, reporting on an event in London, England that was organized by the Cage Prisoners organization. One of the featured speakers was Robert H. King of the Angola 3, who was released in 2001 after 29 years in solitary confinement. King's comrades Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace remain behind bars and have now been in solitary for over 40 years. (image/jpeg)

Pre-Trial Services Faces Budget Battle Zoe Sullivan 2012-12-03 8:35 PM
New Orleans established a pilot, pre-trial services program in late April. The aim of the program is to assess arrestees for the risk they pose if released before trial. Objections and budget crunching threaten it, however. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views interviews LaToya Cantrell, City Council Candidate Gahiji Barrow, WTUL News & Views 2012-12-03 4:00 PM
Gahiji Barrow interviews City Council Candidate LaToya Cantrell (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views interviews Dana Kaplan, City Council Candidate Kezia Kamenetz, WTUL News & Views 2012-12-03 3:47 PM
Kezia Kamenetz interviews City Council Candidate Dana Kaplan (audio/mpeg)

Prison-activist events this week in New Orleans International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 2012-11-27 6:54 AM

Here are a couple of news alerts for our New Orleans region Angola 3 supporters. Get a ticket to see Michele Alexander at Dillard on Wednesday night and join our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration on Friday night to help them raise the funds for their community center and re-entry programs. (image/jpeg)

Pretrial Services Examined Casey DeMoss Roberts 2012-11-26 7:45 PM
It's budget season, and that means intense scrutiny and heated debates in the city council chambers. In an effort to reduce the city's burgeoning jail population and deal with arrestees based on the risk they present, one program launched this spring as a pilot. Now the program is facing push back from some community members as it also struggles to obtain the funding it needs to move forward. WTUL's Zoe Sullivan has more. 7:45 min. (audio/mpeg)

Interview with Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster about Archetypal Dreamwork Kezia Kamenetz 2012-11-26 2:54 PM
Interview about the power of dreams to transform consciousness and why it is relevant in today's world. (audio/mpeg)

First District Attorney Graymond Martin Zoe Sullivan 2012-11-17 5:24 AM
An approximately 13-minute interview with Graymond Martin on issues relating to pre-trial release. (audio/mpeg)

Jerome Jupiter - New Orleans Providing Literacy to All Youth Zoe Sullivan 2012-11-06 10:24 PM
A 7-minute interview with Jerome Jupiter, Director of New Orleans Providing Literacy to All Youth. (audio/mpeg)

Interview with Karran Harper Royal Matt Toups / WTUL 2012-11-05 3:11 PM
Matt Toups interviews Karran Harper Royal about her upcoming school board election for district 3. Royal talks about the myth of New Orleans public school progress and the idea that the constant changes are "for the children". (audio/mpeg)

New Orleans Public Affairs Podcast: Malcolm Suber Zoe Sullivan 2012-10-28 12:12 AM
Malcolm Suber talks about the water damage to The Estates, the housing community that replaced the Desire Project. Hurricane Isaac created significant issues, but the issue pre-dates this storm. (audio/mpeg)

Not Meant To Live Like This WTUL News and Views 2012-10-22 1:57 PM
Kezia Kamenetz interviews members of the 4th World Movement about their new book, Not Meant to Live Like This, which chronicles the lives of New Orleanians living in poverty post Katrina. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

Casey DeMoss-Roberts and Jordan Macha on Energy Efficiency WTUL News & Views 2012-10-12 4:10 PM
An interview with Jordan Macha of the Sierra Club and Casey DeMoss-Roberts of the Alliance for Affordable Energy on the Public Service Commissions consideration of statewide energy efficiency policies. (audio/mpeg)

Tania Tetlow on Domestic Violence Zoe Sullivan 2012-10-06 11:07 PM
Excerpts from an interview with Tania Tetlow, Director of Tulane University Law School's Domestic Violence Clinic. (audio/mpeg)

Jody Meche of LA Crawfish Producers' Association West scott eustis 2012-10-05 3:31 PM
Jody Meche of LA Crawfish Producers' Association West speaks on the life and the death by neglect of the Atchafalaya Basin (audio/mpeg)

Jody Meche of LA Crawfish Producers' West on the life and death of the atchafalaya basin WTUL News 2012-10-04 10:43 PM

Kermit Ruffins' Community Meeting on live music venues WTUL News and Views 2012-10-01 1:37 PM
Recorded at the first of a series of weekly meetings about the crackdown on live music venues in New Orleans. Held at Kermit Ruffins' Treme Speakeasy, September 26, 2012. Thanks to Sam Jasper of http://nolaslate.blogspot.com/ for sharing the recording of this meeting. (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

Veterans' Treatment Court Zoe Sullivan 2012-09-21 3:00 AM
Excerpts from an interview with Judge Arthur Hunter who presides over the Veterans' Treatment Court in New Orleans's Criminal District Court. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Anna Hrybyk on the leaks and lies of Stolthaven WTUL News 2012-09-18 11:46 PM

Bill Quigley Keynote from Prisoners' Rights Conference WTUL News and Views 2012-09-17 2:33 PM
On September 14, 2012, students, professors and social justice activists met for a conference on Prisoners' Rights. Bill Quigley gave the keynote address. (audio/mpeg)

Free Community Screening of In the Land of the Free Maria Hinds 2012-09-10 6:02 PM

In the Land of the Free is a documentary narrated by Samuel L Jackson detailing the case of The Angola 3. 2 members of the Angola 3 have been in solitary confinement for 40 years for a crime they did not commit. 83 mins long. (image/png)

Church Service for the Angola 3 Intl. Coalition to free the Angola 3 2012-09-04 8:52 PM

Enclosed are photos and the program from the June 24, 2012 Service at Rose Hill Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (image/jpeg)

Immigrants Fight to Remain in N.O. with 24 mylen 2012-08-30 6:20 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 (text/html + 1 comment)

Oppose Jindal's poisoning AND Obama's Demolition Plan for Iberville kyle 2012-08-26 8:46 PM
Denouncing Governor Jindal’s total disregard for the health safety of Iberville resident is not enough. We must also oppose and organize against the even more outrageous plan of President Obama to demolish the homes of Iberville residents (text/html)

Do US Prisons Violate European Human Rights Law? --Interview w/ Hamja Ahsan & Aviva Stahl Angola 3 News 2012-08-23 1:18 AM

An important ruling is expected early in September from the European Court of Human Rights, regarding whether or not US prisons respect human rights enough for the UK to extradite ‘war on terror' suspects to the US. We interview activist/journalist Aviva Stahl from CagePrisoners.com alongside Hamja Ahsan, the brother of Talha Ahsan, one of the appellants that will be seriously affected by the September ruling, in prison since 2006. (image/jpeg)

Jan Moller - Film Tax Credits Zoe Sullivan 2012-08-21 3:27 AM
a 4-minute excerpt of an interview with Jan Moller of the Louisiana Budget Project about the state's film tax credit program. (audio/mpeg)

Interview with Tyrone Chambers of "Undoing Racism" WTUL News and Views 2012-08-20 8:25 PM
Kezia Kamenetz interviews Tyrone Chambers about his work against racism in New Orleans and his experience as a black man in a supposedly 'colorblind' society. (audio/mpeg)

Rosanna Cruz and Norris Henderson on Jail Expansion and OPPRC WTUL News and Views 2012-08-15 2:28 PM
Gahiji Barrow interviews leaders in the Orleans Parish Prison Coalition about the back door discussions that might lead to jail expansion, the pending consent decree for OPP, the per diem system and much more concerning criminal justice in New Orleans. (audio/mpeg)

Reverend Thompson on the Gun Buy Back Zoe Sullivan 2012-08-12 11:27 PM
An 6:40 minute excerpt of an interview with Reverend Norwood Thompson of the Southern Christian Leadership Coalition on their efforts to take guns off the streets of New Orleans. (audio/mpeg)

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