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New Orleans: Mental illness punishable by death Roberto C. 2007-03-16 10:09 PM
NEW ORLEANS, LA – On Thursday, March 8, 2007, Terry Burton, aged 53, was killed by the National Guard Military Police. Mr. Burton was mentally ill and the third such person murdered by law enforcement in a city with no mental health services. (text/plain)

Photos of Pascagoula Shipyard Strike Roberto C. and Christian Roselund 2007-03-16 4:21 AM

All photos from March 14th. (image/jpeg + 6 comments)

7,000 shipyard workers on strike in Pascagoula Christian Roselund 2007-03-16 12:08 AM
Seven thousand workers from 13 unions entered their second week of strike at the Ingalls shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The workers walked out on March 8th after voting overwhelmingly to reject Northrop Grumman's new contract, which they say increases insurance premiums without an offset in pay or an allowance for the rising cost of living post-Katrina. The following audio and pictures are from the picket outside Northrop Grumman, taken on March 14th. (audio/mpeg)

Katrina Jaap den Haan 2007-03-15 4:36 PM
The carrot and the stick (text/plain)

Bring N.O. Home By Solving Roots of Crime d 2007-03-14 9:54 AM
Until all of us recognize that we will never be able to live lives free from the fear of violence until we see ourselves as one interwoven, unseperateable community that cannot be a great place to live until their is not desperate, hopeless people living among us, we will always have these problems. We need to demand politicians do whatever is necessary to relieve the despair, hopelessness, and desperation so many in our city grow up to have inside them, to raise the poor and uneducated up so we can ALL have a safe place to call home, because there is no other alternative if true safety is our goal. (text/plain)

Discussion on Congressional Bill to Reopen Public Housing In New Orleans Mike Howells 2007-03-13 11:33 PM
The U.S. House of Representatives is considering legislation that would compell HUD to reopen at least some of the city's public housing units that have been shuttered since Katrina. Supporters of the right of return need to understand just what this legislation would mean to the fight for affordable housing in New Orleans. (text/plain)

Organizing in the Gulf South against Legal Slavery under the H2B Visa Program Bardamu 2007-03-13 6:58 PM
Labor and immigrants rights organizations across the gulf south and nationally are calling for reform or elimination of the H2B visas system as new reports of abuses of immigrant workers are surfacing and workers organize against a system which the Southern Poverty Law Center says is "close to slavery" (text/html + 3 comments)

H2B Guest Workers Speak on Imprisonment, Exploitation Bardamu 2007-03-12 4:23 PM
Guest workers across the Gulf South are organizing against the conditions contractors are subjecting them to in the H2B Visa program, which immigration lawyers and organizers are calling "inherently exploitative". Following an incident last week where Indian guest workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi say they were imprisoned by their employer, Indian and Mexican guest workers met in solidarity this weekend. Following is a series of interviews with Indian and Mexican guest workers, Jennifer Rosenbaum of the Immigration Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Sakhet Soni of the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

Indian H2B visa workers imprisoned, enslaved in Gulf Coast Signal H2B Employees Organization 2007-03-11 10:19 AM
A Mississippi company imprisoned its workers in a pre-dawn raid Friday morning, holding six workers against their will. As of Friday afternoon all six workers had been released from captivity by the Signal corporation. Following is a Letter from "Signal H2B Employees Organization", the organization of H2B guest workers from India working for Signal International, LLC. (text/plain + 1 comment)

audio: Fatma Aydin with the newly opened La Vita restaurant Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-03-07 6:57 PM

NOLA Public Housing Battle Continues Kari Lydersen 2007-03-07 2:31 AM
New Orleans -- Sharon Sears Jasper starts to cry as she remembers the good days at St. Bernard Housing Development, one of New Orleans’ public housing projects at the center of the fight over the future of public housing in the post-Katrina city. (text/html)

The Rising Tide Spring Roadshow is coming to New Orleans!! Common Ground Media 2007-03-05 2:18 AM
We are here to change the world, but also to have fun- Expect songs, laughter, inspiring discussions and amazing stories! Listen to an interview with Evan Greer, an organizer with the Roadshow. (audio/x-ms-wma + 1 comment)

March on Stacy Head's house Elizabeth Cook 2007-03-02 8:18 PM
Tell Stacy: time to come clean on the $$$$800,000 from real estate and home builder interests (text/plain)

INCREASED PERMIT FEES KILLING CULTURE OF SECOND LINES Sean Hobbs 2007-03-02 2:46 PM
After violence at Second Line Parades the police decide to raise the parade fees. Because the violence was unrelated to the parades the Second Line clubs ask why this unique cultural tradition should be taxed out of existence. (text/plain + 5 comments)

audio: Dr. Henri Roca, Integrated Medicine at LSU Medical Center Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-03-02 3:25 AM

Bush asked to "refute" claim that housing project closures are "ethnic clea WSQT Guerrilla Radio 87.9 in DC 2007-03-02 12:20 AM
The March 1 issue of the Washington Post has asked in an editorial for George Bush to "speak from the bully pulpit on New Orleans reconstruction-and especially to talk people out of the idea that the housing project closures are for purposes of ethnic cleansing (text/plain)

House Committee Hearing on Insurance Claims post-K Christian Roselund 2007-03-01 7:57 PM
Audio from the February 28th US House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the insurance crisis in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. (audio/mpeg)

The Case of Gary Tyler on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez 2007-03-01 5:18 PM
The case of Louisiana’s Gary Tyler has been called one of the great miscarriages of justice in the modern history of the United States. Tyler, an African-American, has been jailed since he was 16 years old for a 1974 murder that many believe he did not commit. An all-white jury convicted him based entirely on the statements of four witnesses who later recanted their testimony. We speak with Tyler’s mother, Juanita, and his sister Bobbie McCray. We’re also joined by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who has been covering Tyler’s case. And we hear Tyler in his own words in an un-aired interview from prison. (text/plain)

The Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic Opens To Serve The Medical Needs Of The Community Common Ground Media 2007-03-01 3:16 AM
The Lower Ninth Health Clinic opens its doors tomorrow-it is the only health care provider in the Ninth Ward and will play a vital role in the community. (text/plain)

Come Protest! President Bush visiting New Orleans, Thurs, March 1st Common Ground Media 2007-03-01 2:58 AM

President Bush is visiting New Orleans, Thurs, March 1st at Samuel j Green School, 2319 Valence Street. Come out at 2pm and let Bush know what you think! (image/jpeg)

Blanco Ignores Healthcare, Vitter pushes privatization, ALPH says reopen Charity! Healthcare for All! 2007-02-26 3:20 PM
In shadow of Congressional Hearing on Housing, Blanco ignores healthcare crisis while Vitter pushes privatization. Advocates for Louisiana Public Healthcare and concerned citizens fight for healthcare access. (text/plain + 1 comment)

interview with Javier Gallardo, Worker's Center Christian Roselund 2007-02-26 12:53 PM
Javier is project coordinator of the day laborer program at the Worker's Center for Racial Justice in New Orleans. He was arrested on February 24 in Gretna with 17 other workers and a national day labor organizer. (audio/mpeg)

Fighting Back: This is not a game benzo 2007-02-26 5:56 AM
It's time to quit talking and start acting to create a better city. It is the only way to improve things here in New Orleans. (text/plain + 1 comment)

The reclaiming of Marcus Garvey Square Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-26 2:05 AM
Louis Harding of the Marcus Garvey Center for Economic Development presides over the do-it-yourself renaming of the local park (video/mpeg)

17 migrant workers arrested in Gretna (audio) Christian Roselund 2007-02-25 2:54 PM
On the morning of February 24th, seventeen Latino day laborers and two organizers were arrested by Gretna police at the west bank Home Depot for trespassing. The two organizers were released soon afterward, but as of last night six workers were still in jail at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility in Gretna, despite bail being posted by three that afternoon. (audio/mpeg)

Audio from the Congressional Hearing on Affordable Housing Christian Roselund 2007-02-24 2:10 PM
Audio from the February 22nd Congressional subcommittee hearing on Affordable Housing held at Dillard University. (audio/mpeg)

audio: Msgr. Kern, with the St. Louis Cathedral talks about the new Vatican Mosaic exhibit Craig Kraemer 2007-02-23 4:37 PM

Bill Jefferson at the Congressional Hearing on (Un)Affordable Housing Christian Roselund 2007-02-23 3:48 PM
Audio of Congressman William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson of New Orleans presenting to the Congressional Hearing on Affordable Housing. (audio/mpeg)

audio of Blanco at the congressional hearing on housing Christian Roselund 2007-02-23 3:22 PM
Audio of Kathleen Blanco's speech at the Congressional Hearing on Affordable Housing (or lack thereof) on February 22nd at Lawless Memorial Chapel, Dillard University, New Orleans. (audio/mpeg)

McKesson and HIMSS donates $20, 000 to Common Ground Health Clinic John Goodman 2007-02-21 3:17 PM
McKesson Corp. has donated $20,000 to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Foundation, which will use that money to support the Common Ground Health Clinic. (text/plain)

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