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Scientists are VERY WORRIED About Atmospheric Warming Don Beck 2007-04-24 6:40 PM
Recent reports of climatologists from around the world are revealing that their projections of warming and CO2 levels have been too low. They are startled by what their data is showing and how fast the changes have been happening in the past few years. (text/plain)

Judge Hunter Orders Release of 42 Prisoners Common Ground Media 2007-04-20 9:23 PM
Judge Arthur Hunter ordered 42 inmates freed for the excessive time they spent behind bars without adequate access to counsel. Hunter supported public defenders, agreeing that severe underfunding is resulting in overwhelming case loads and they were unable to provide adequate representation to the 42 people, who then faced months and sometimes years in prison without any movement in their case. The mainly minor narcotics charges against the defendants are not dropped-the cases are stayed and the defendants freed on their own recognizance. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Help the Children of Katrina Jason L. Dinsmore 2007-04-20 2:16 PM

Throughout the entire Katrina Tragedy, he have heard accounts and blames from Bush, Oprah, and even Spike Lee; but not once has anyone mentioned the children of Katrina...the one's who will think about this for their entire lives!!! (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8 Friday 8th June 2007 rtna 2007-04-20 2:15 PM
We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our planet and our future. (text/plain)

LAGNIAPPE FILM FEST SATURDAY @TULANE LAW. $2! ben 2007-04-13 7:13 PM
Saturday 5/14, an afternoon of powerful and celebrated films, $2 admission, (text/plain)

audio: Dr. Michael White, a musician, historian, composer, and educator Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-04-13 4:55 AM

Homeland Secuity Begins with Homes!!! Elizabeth Cook 2007-04-13 3:17 AM
Press conference and rally to demand Senator Mary Landrieu supprt bill to reopen public housing in new orleans and provide more money to repair private homes damaged by the hurricanes. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Ressurction City Demolished Logan Price 2007-04-08 9:29 PM

On Monday, April 2nd we arrived at the St. Bernard Housing projects as the last two by fours and roofing panels of Resurrection City were being pushed into a dump truck. (image/jpeg)

audio: Judy Spellman, daughter of Benny Spellman, performs at Jazz Fest Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-04-07 1:20 AM

Shipyard strike in Pascagoula ends Christian Roselund 2007-04-05 8:00 PM
A twenty-eight day strike at the Ingalls shipyards in Pascagoula ended last night when an estimated 60% of striking workers voted to accept a compromise offer made by Northrop Grumman. (text/plain)

Design Within Reach Donates to New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity DWR 2007-04-05 5:33 PM
Design Within Reach Donates Over $8,000 From Revenue of New Orleans Studio Opening (text/plain)

Police victory in Gretna Bridge Lawsuit repost 2007-04-04 3:49 AM
(repost from the Times-Picayune) A federal judge has ruled that police in Jefferson Parish did not violate the constitutional right to travel of people who were denied passage on the Crescent City Connection in the days following Hurricane Katrina. (text/plain)

Google uses pre-Katrina maps for New Orleans Common Ground Media 2007-04-02 7:47 PM
Google is using pre-Katrina imagery for its maps of New Orleans. Congress demands to know why the company is "airbrushing history". (text/plain + 1 comment)

silence is violence? a 2007-04-02 6:43 AM
To those who say "silence is violence," take a look at the deeper problems causing the violence, and consider changing your slogan, and attitude, to face the reality that POVERTY IS VIOLENCE. You can catch a violent criminal, but until this fact is recognized, you will never be able to find a peaceful, safe city. (text/plain)

audio: Reggie Scanlan, bass guitar player for the internationally known "Radiators&q Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-03-30 8:48 PM

Local Volunteers Teaching Disaster Preparedness At New Orleans Schools Sean Farrell 2007-03-29 7:19 PM
AmeriCorps*NCCC Teams Up with The American Red Cross to Prepare for Disater (text/plain + 2 comments)

Audio from Day 20 of Pascagoula Shipyard Strike Christian Roselund 2007-03-28 11:34 PM
Audio from March 27th on the picket line and outside negotiations over the strike at the Ingalls shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi. March 27th was the 20th day of the strike, which as I am writing this has exceeded three weeks. (audio/mpeg)

Pascagoula Shipyard Strike: Day 20 Christian Roselund 2007-03-28 4:20 AM
Nearly 7,000 workers at the Ingalls shipyards entered their twentieth day on strike today, amid contract negotiations that seem to be going nowhere fast. (text/plain)

Victory for Public Housing Residents and Activists: House Passes HR 1227 Jacob Bor 2007-03-27 7:44 PM
The US House of Representatives passes HR 1227, the Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007. If passed by the Senate, the bill would end demolition of public housing, guarantee right of return to public housing residents, and subsidize moving costs for returnees. (text/plain)

Noise Complaints Could Silence King Bolden's repost by Christian 2007-03-26 3:32 PM
The 4-year-old club says a Monday ruling by the city to shut down for 30 days because it was playing music without a license could drive it into bankruptcy and serve as a warning to anyone wanting to open a music venue on Rampart. King Bolden’s is appealing the suspension and says it will remain open during the appeals process. (text/plain)

audio: Valerie Robinson chairman of the Old Algiers RiverFest - April 1, 2007 Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-03-26 12:21 AM

From New Orleans to Caracas - Mutual Aid & International Solidarity conference May 24 - 27 MutualAidSolidarity.org 2007-03-23 3:49 PM
The conference is designed to network person-to-person and grassroots links between the peoples of Venezuela and the United States. (text/plain)

Loyola University New Orleans lecture "Overcoming Zionism" Monday March 26th at Marc Parent 2007-03-22 5:43 PM
Professor Joel Kovel of Bard College will speak on Monday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m., in Miller Hall, room 114, at Loyola University New Orleans, on the topic "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine." (text/plain)

Prison conference here in august fuck CCA 2007-03-22 6:58 AM
The American Correctional Association's (ACA) "Congress of Correction" is a huge annual meeting of prison labor companies and corrections officials (wardens, administrators, etc). It's advertised as "the largest gathering of corrections personnel in the United States." (text/plain + 2 comments)

Unstable Foundations Rebecca Solnit 2007-03-21 10:11 PM
New Orleans represents what Republicans promise when they call for shrinking down government. Residents struggling to remain in the stricken city or return home find little assistance - but rather, great resistance - from government at all levels. Still, the author sees hope among people who "are doing it for themselves" with assistance from thousands of volunteers from all across the nation. Katrina, writes the author, "is not even half over." (text/plain)

Labor Union - Labor Department to act on employee safety equipment Labor Union 2007-03-21 7:26 PM
WASHINGTON (AP)Labor Union — The Labor Department has agreed to issue rules outlining an employer’s responsibility for the cost of workers’ safety equipment — two months after a lawsuit by the AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial Workers seeking such regulations. www.LABORUNIONRESOURCES.ORG (text/plain + 1 comment)

Gary Tyler's Quest for Justice DAVE ZIRIN 2007-03-21 5:50 PM
The history of the American legal system is scarred with instances of injustice: the Haymarket martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scottsboro Boys, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Add to this list the case of Gary Tyler, convicted of murder at the age of 16. Tyler's case was remarkable because at the time of his 1975 conviction, he was the nation's youngest death-row inmate. The spotlight dimmed when his sentence was commuted to life without the possibility of parole in 1977, a year after the US Supreme Court declared Louisiana's death penalty unconstitutional. (text/plain)

audio: Salvadore Serio, vice president of the American Italian Renaissance Foundation Craig Kraemer with New Orleans Podcasting 2007-03-18 10:21 PM

People’s Hurricane Relief Fund Demands Renters' Rights Common Ground Media 2007-03-17 7:15 PM

PHRF gives presentation at New Orleans City Council meeting to demand rights for renters and former renters now forced to live outside of New Orleans. (image/jpeg)

PHRF makes a breakthrough on price gouging and tenants rights in New Orleans Roberto C. 2007-03-16 10:21 PM

PHRF makes a breakthrough on price gouging and tenants rights in New Orleans (image/jpeg)

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