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Take Back Our City - Second Line on Lundi Gras Darwin BondGraham 2007-02-20 12:35 AM

People's Hurricane and others organized a second line parade demanding the right of return. Unlike the other festivities during this Mardi Gras, the Take Back Our City march was participatory and political. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office and Metro Narcotics Illegally Detains Photojournalist Keith Skinner 2007-02-18 10:17 PM
Corruption in the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Department has taken on a new twist. A freelance photojournalist was illegally detained and held for over two hours being questioned about his sources. Rogue Narcotics Officer Lt. Mike Rowlan allowed to trample the rights of many without fear of liability for his actions. (text/plain + 6 comments)

audio: Dr. Morgus' solution to the New Orleans crime problem Craig Kraemer 2007-02-17 10:28 PM

The Rabouin Marching Band Hits the Parade Routes Brian Denzer 2007-02-17 1:52 PM
Starting Rabouin High School’s first-ever marching band following Hurricane Katrina was the special passion of Hot 8 Brass Band drummer Dinneral Shavers before he became the unintended victim of a shooting in December. His spirit lives on in the Rabouin marching band. 38:49, 15.9 mb, 56 kbps. (audio/mpeg)

Charles Hamilton, president of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club Craig Kraemer 2007-02-17 9:45 AM

Art of War : Black History Month Larmee 2007-02-17 12:31 AM

Black History Month (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Call for the Second Survivors Assembly People's Hurricane Relief Fund 2007-02-14 5:14 PM
In accord with the principle that “the People Must Decide”, the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF/OC) calls for the convening of the Second Survivors Assembly on Saturday, August 25th – Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. We ask that all Survivors Councils, independent Survivor formations, Gulf Coast civil society organizations, and Solidarity Committee’s interested in participating in the Second Survivors Assembly please contact us by March 1st, 2007 via email at phrfoc@gmail.com. (text/html)

C.J. Peete Public Housing Residents Reclaim Homes Common Ground Media 2007-02-14 2:55 PM

Public housing residents move back into their homes challenging HANO/HUD's plans to demolish the units. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

PHRF Organizes Political-Cultural Events during Carnival Roberto Calderra 2007-02-13 7:10 PM
PHRF organizes cultural front, offering an alternative to commercial Mardi Gras. (text/plain)

Amnesty International Renews Call to Gov. to Free Gary Tyler Amnesty International 2007-02-12 3:42 PM
Amnesty International is renewing its call to the Louisiana authorities for a pardon to be granted to Gary Tyler, a 49 year-old African-American man who has been in prison in Louisiana since the age of 17, and whose 1975 trial was infected with racial prejudice. (text/plain)

Civic Activism, Blogging, and Media Democracy in the Rebuilding in New Orleans, Pt. 1 Brian Denzer 2007-02-10 7:52 PM
In perhaps an unprecedented manner, the internet has become for New Orleanians an essential tool for re-establishing personal connections, for sharing stories, for communicating the will of residents, for organizing residents to rebuild their neighborhoods, and for fighting for desperately-needed answers and resources from every level of government. New Orleans bloggers Karen Gadbois and Laureen Lentz have become champions of many causes, but their primary focus is preserving New Orleans historic heritage in a blog called “Squandered Heritage.” Leadout track: Allen Toussaint, "Me and Tipitina," Our New Orleans, Nonesuch, 2005. 21:24, 5 mb, 32kbps. (audio/mpeg)

New song for New Orleans Lotus Cassidy 2007-02-10 5:37 PM
An upbeat song from a former area musician (audio/mpeg)

DC pirate radio broadcasts MAYDAY/St Bernard audio WSQT Guerrilla Radio 87.9 FM in DC 2007-02-09 8:31 PM
WSQT Guerrilla Radio broadcast this piece, consisting of audio (including Bork of MAYDAY DC/NOLA) from the St Bernard community center occupation and lawyer Bill Quigley's interview that drew a gag order. Audio is 23 minutes. (audio/mpeg)

Black History in Action: Brooklyn Students’ Campaign to Revive New Orleans Neighborhoods Jeffrey Buchanan 2007-02-09 2:17 PM
Each February students study examples of student activism on behalf of human rights during Black History Month. Banneker Academy for Community Development in Brooklyn are putting these lessons into action raising funds for ACORN New Orleans and challenging others (text/plain)

audio: Arthur Hardy, New Orleans Mardi Gras authority talks about Mardi Gras 2007 Craig Kraemer 2007-02-09 11:56 AM

Juanita Tyler: ‘They Beat Gary So Bad’ Bob Herbert 2007-02-08 1:52 PM
The Tylers are black. In 1974, when Gary was 16, he was accused of murdering a 13-year-old white boy outside the high school that they attended in nearby Destrehan. The boy was shot to death in the midst of turmoil over school integration, which the local whites were resisting violently. (text/plain)

Sign Petition in Support of Gary Tyler David 2007-02-07 3:07 PM
Bob Herbert's third column about Gary Tyler is scheduled to appear in Thursday's New York Times. Once it's been published, it will be added it to www.freegarytyler.com, alongside the first two columns from Mr.Herbert. An on-line petition has been just added to the site earlier today. Please take a minute and sign it <http://www.freegarytyler.com/petition.php> (text/plain)

World's sea levels rising at accelerating rate James Randerson/Ivan Sample/Ed Ward, MD 2007-02-06 12:45 PM
A rise of close to 1m would threaten huge areas of low lying coastal land, as well as major cities such as London, New York and Tokyo. (and New Orleans, Miami) (text/plain + 1 comment)

A Death in Destrehan: Gary Tyler's Story Bob Herbert 2007-02-05 5:30 PM
On the afternoon of Oct. 7, 1974, a mob of 200 enraged whites, many of them students, closed in on a bus filled with black students that was trying to pull away from the local high school. The people in the mob were in a high-pitched frenzy. They screamed racial epithets and bombarded the bus with rocks and bottles. The students on the bus were terrified. (text/plain)

More audio from February 1 HANO meeting Christian Roselund 2007-02-05 12:52 PM
Additional audio from the February 1st HANO meeting in the Fisher Development. (audio/mpeg)

Filmscreening about Oaxaca popular uprising maldeojo 2007-02-05 11:06 AM
Join filmmakers from Oaxaca Mexico for an evening of short excerpts from new documentary films by video collectives covering the multiple stories which will forever mark 2006 as a milestone year for the Latin American left. Tuesday Feb 6 21:30hrs. Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center (text/plain)

SWAT Team Arrests MayDay NOLA Occupiers and Public Housing Resident Council Representative Common Ground Media 2007-02-03 5:58 PM
Two housing activists arrested at St Bernard Housing Development (text/plain)

Residents and Activists speak out at HANO consultation meeting Common Ground Media 2007-02-03 5:52 PM
Read HANO's plans for demolishing the St. Bernard projects, and hear rebuttals made at the consultation meeting. (application/pdf)

Building Bridges Radio: Law Students Work To Aid Gulf Coast Residents! Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash 2007-02-03 3:46 PM
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW (text/plain)

Walk for Obama - Spring 2008 - March Begins in New Orleans Michael A. Collins 2007-02-03 1:32 PM
Walk for Obama - Spring 2008 - March Begins in New Orleans (text/plain)

audio: Carlton Dufrechou - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation Craig Kraemer 2007-02-03 9:33 AM

Rebuilding at Home, Not War Abroad Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-01 10:05 PM

for immediate release (image/jpeg)

Common Ground Emergency Shelter Up and Running in 7th Ward Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-01 9:07 PM
Common Ground provides emergency housing for New Orleans residents still displaced seventeen months after Katrina (text/plain)

The Kid Camera Project: New Orleans Seen Through the Eyes of its Youth Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-01 8:58 PM

Nobody knows a city better than its own residents, and the Kid Camera Project puts photography in the hands of the most fragile and impressionable of those residents: youth. (image/jpeg)

Public Housing Residents to Hold Press Conference Prior to HANO Meeting Curtis Rumrill 2007-02-01 6:47 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - PHOTO OPPOTUNITY (text/plain)

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