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NEW ORLEANS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Two members of the Louisiana National Guard sent in to hel Reuters 2006-08-19 3:17 AM
NEW ORLEANS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Two members of the Louisiana National Guard sent in to help fight rising crime in storm-ravaged New Orleans have been charged with armed robbery, a National Guard spokesman said on Friday. (text/plain)

Nagin Blames Racism for Slow Katrina Recovery Cory Turner 2006-08-19 12:43 AM
Sometimes it's easier to pass the buck than to work to receive the big bucks. (text/plain)

Indentured Servitude in Alabama, Auditor's Public Discussion Edited, Rough Cut Video Here Kurt Brown--Saint Ram Bone 2006-08-17 7:57 PM
Censored Auditor by illegal war regime in Alabama releases first rough cut of video of County Commission meeting in Baldwin County Alabama. (video/x-ms-wmv + 5 comments)

Guest Workers Charge Racial Exploitation, File Federal Suit Against Luxury Hotel Chain scott 2006-08-17 1:12 AM

Latin American workers brought a federal lawsuit today against one of New Orleans’ wealthiest hotel owners, who lured them through false promises and charged them thousands of dollars in fees to fill jobs held by New Orleanians prior to Hurricane Katrina. Eighty-two guest workers allege that Decatur Hotels, LLC and its president, F. Patrick Quinn III, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when the company failed to reimburse them for the exorbitant fees paid to aggressive labor recruiters working as agents of the hotel chain. (image/jpeg)

Auditor/Reporter needs Help Stopping Indentured Servitude, MODERN SLAVERY, in South Alabam Kurt Brown--Saint Ram Bone 2006-08-16 5:40 PM
Below is an email sent to various sources asking for help in stopping indentured servitude in South Alabama. Please assist. (text/plain)

Workers File Lawsuit Against Hotel Chain in New Orleans nicki sabalu 2006-08-16 2:19 PM
Class-action suit filed with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Landfill Closure Upheld in New Orleans East nicki sabalu 2006-08-16 1:23 PM

New Orleans East landfill ordered shut; dilemma over contaminated debris continues. (image/jpeg)

BayouBuzz & Media: Dim vs Repug Bias? The Bell Tolls for LA Ed Ward, MD 2006-08-16 7:23 AM
Democrat (dim) Blanco 'slammed' and 'vents road rage' in 'schoolmarmish' 'instructing' 'on how to approach her desk'. Repug Vitter's 'quite effective' 'uncanny knack' 'demanded' 'withdraw'al 'of the proposal'. 'he's right'. (text/plain)

UNOP Meeting: This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like! Mike Howells 2006-08-14 10:46 PM
The reality of race and class exclusion colored the August 1 meeting of the Unified New Orleans Plan. This is not what democratic recovery planning in New Orleans looks like. However, those who do support a truly democratic recovery planning process should, at the very least, be aware of the concrete ways in which the official planning process ices out working class and African-American New Orleanians. (text/plain)

There Go the Neighborhoods Elizabeth Cook 2006-08-13 12:55 PM
In the bloated, utopian visions emerging from the neighborhood planning process, it's not about whose participating. It's about who isn't. (text/plain + 6 comments)

Sue your insurance company now! (Part 1) Brian Denzer 2006-08-12 2:04 PM
To make sure they don't become victims a second time, Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims need to file lawsuits against their insurance companies on or before Aug. 28th (Katrina) and Sept. 23rd (Rita) if they don't now have a check in their hands. Insurance companies appear to be employing various delay tactics to get past the one year deadline to file lawsuits for unresolved property claims. Part 1 profiles the insurance woes experienced by Mid City resident Michael Homan and his wife Therese Fitzpatrick. 13:25, 14.8 mb, 64 kbps. (audio/mpeg)

Reinventing the Criminal Justice System Cory Turner 2006-08-10 9:07 PM
The New Orleans area is in a unique position to improve the local criminal justice system. With this in mind, we do not need to rebuild our local criminal justice structure; we need to completely reinvent it. Readers are encouraged to contact Cory Turner, at coturner1@aol.com, to form a group and organize with the goal of advocating for positive changes to effectively and equitably reduce crime. (text/plain + 4 comments)

Arabi Wrecking Krewe a Satchmo Gordon Soderberg 2006-08-07 4:55 PM
Kelly Dougherty Interviews Sheik Richardson at Satchmo Fest. (video/quicktime + 1 comment)

Gentrifying the Crescent City Darwin BondGraham 2006-08-07 12:41 PM

The post-Katrina cityscape is rapidly being reshaped by developers and real estate speculators in ways that favor affluent homebuyers, the tourist industry, and downtown property owners. (image/jpeg + 8 comments)

LOSING A FREE-SCHOOL LEGACY IN NE0-COLONIAL ORLEANS M.B.Black & Jose Torres Tama 2006-08-06 3:34 PM

(intro-M. Black/essay-Jose Torres Tama) After a year of brazen wheelin’-n-’dealin’ by Government, Corporate and non-Profiteers, New Orleans harbors a grief that continues to compound and reverberate through the soul of this fragile metropolis. With the majority of the city’s former housing still uninhabitable, triple rents and increased utilities on what is left, and the drastic reduction or outright elimination of public services, including hospitals, schools, public housing, legal services for the poor & public transportation, New Orleans runs the risk of becoming an architectural minstral to one of the richest treasures of the United States’ own culturally complex cities. >>>>As those of us here fight for a place called home and to redefine community in shadowy abscenses of the once familiar, commonplace, and beloved, the fact is, the majority of residents simply cannot return. And in these abscences, a litany of loss continues to flood the city beneath the shiny devolopment plans of Ivy League urban planning experts and their corporate development counterparts. These losses are losses to the entire country - We are losing the opportunity to celebrate and see in our complex and conflicted pasts examples of freedom, compassion and resistence that could guide us into a future in which tolerance and courage are celebrated instead of fear and conformity. Now it looks like condos are on the way in the property of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisiana that was, until last month, home to Bishop Perry Middle School, one of the oldest schools for children of color in the entire country, founded by a free woman of color of African descent. >>>>The following commentary is reprinted with permission by long-time resident of the New Orleans cultural resistence, the shamanistic street performer, revolutionary artist and committed educator Jose Torres-Tama. For more multi-lingual intersections of magic and political resistence, go to Jose’s site, www.torrestama.com -M.B.Black (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

The United Nations Report on Katrina Robert Radujko-Moore, Ph.D. 2006-08-06 4:16 AM
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita combined with forecasted levee failures have obliterated your homes, your records, broken apart your families, scattered you across the country, and the United States of America has not provided you with relief, safety, security, and certainly no recovery. It's abandoning you. Other than that, how was your day? (text/plain)

The Bold-Face of Katrina Immorality Robert Radujko-Moore, Ph.D. 2006-08-06 4:06 AM
Let’s Get Past Diluting the Disaster with Words. Yet Once We Know Who The Enemy Is, It May Be Us The U.S. population is fed a lot of misinformation through radio, TV, newspapers, and the Internet. It’s about language, how things are defined or described. Words seem to equate with national reaction, selectively to inflame or paralyze it. (text/plain)

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Dale Hrebik 2006-08-05 3:05 PM
A reading by Dale Hrebik, an English professor at Loyola University. On the side, Hrebik writes for the blog Flood and Loathing (http://floodandloathing.blogspot.com), and plays in a band named Smuteye. He's also busy rebuilding a double shotgun in Mid City which had three to four feet of water inside what is a raised house. He hopes to move back into his house by the end of the year. Closing track: Smuteye, "Rope Swing," on Destrehan Dialtone, dale@smuteye.net. Produced by Brian Denzer. 8:46, 4.1 mb, 64 kbps. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

The Unified New Orleans Plan Brian Denzer 2006-08-05 1:17 PM
After a couple of false starts, the process of creating one unified plan to rebuild New Orleans neighborhoods destroyed by flooding finally started to gel with a process called the Unified New Orleans Plan. Residents citywide were invited to participate in two meetings to evaluate how the diverse neighborhoods of the city would combine their rebuilding plans with the assistance of various private planning firms. 38:53, 18.3 mb, 64 kbps. (audio/mpeg)

IVAW & Aribi Wrecking Krewe Muck and Gut Gordon Soderberg 2006-08-04 10:31 PM

Iraq Veterans Against War and The Aribi Wrecking Krewe muck and gut the home of Ronald Snow. Ronald is a guitar and bass player for several Jazz bands in New Orlans. (image/jpeg)

Survey on independent media use and Katrina Donna Braquet (posted by Christian Roselund) 2006-08-03 6:35 PM
Dear Katrina Survivors, I am a native New Orleanian and currently a librarian at the University of Tennessee. I am researching the impact of information in the lives of Hurricane Katrina survivors. I have created an online survey that should take about 30 minutes to complete and will ask questions about the information you needed, where and how you found it, and how you provided information to others before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Unified New Orleans Plan kicks off Darwin BondGraham 2006-08-02 5:26 PM
It’s unclear just how much the various planning firms that are selected in this process will truly incorporate the needs and desires of the residents represented. But the biggest problem of all with the process thus far is its lack of true democratic participation. With almost half of the city’s population still missing, with renters, public housing residents, and residents of the worst hit neighborhoods distracted by more mundane concerns like returning home, securing employment, a roof over their heads, or cleaning up property that Mayor Nagin will otherwise deem blighted within a month, it would appear that most resident of the Big Easy simply don’t have the resources to participate. (text/plain + 3 comments)

People's Hurricane Relief Fund helping to organize memorial march for August 29 sabalu 2006-08-02 4:38 PM
Memorial march to take place on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (text/plain)

The Big Easy Roller Girls: Through Hell and High Water, pt. 1 Brian Denzer 2006-07-29 3:30 PM
In New Orleans, the post-Katrina resurrection of roller derby represents an unexpected sign of the rebirth of a city still marked by a dirty floodwater bathtub ring. Ivanna S. Pankin, Trish the Dish, and Cherry Pi. 26:27, 12.5 mb, 64 kbps. (audio/mpeg)

breaking ground newspaper seeks volunteers common ground media collective 2006-07-28 4:31 PM
Please share your ideas! (text/plain)

Iberville Residents and Activists Wary of Redevelopment Plans Darwin BondGraham 2006-07-28 2:53 PM
On Thursday August 3, 2006 the United Front for Affordable Housing plans to address concerns raised at tonight’s meeting and to defend public housing across the city by hosting a potluck and discussion at the St. Jude Community Center (400 N. Rampart Street) at 7:00. Marty Rowland, one of the organizers says that Mayor Nagin and the City Council have been invited to attend. Anyone else in New Orleans who cares about housing rights is urged to come. (text/plain)

Katrina Victims Not Allowed To Talk To Media x 2006-07-27 10:53 PM
think jonestown.... (text/plain)

NEW ORLEANS DOCUMENTARY ONLINE Freddy Smith 2006-07-26 3:43 PM
New Orleans filmmaker, Brent Joseph, had directed a short documentary about the rebuilding of an African-American Community Center that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. (text/plain)

N' Please Khubaka Michael Harris 2006-07-26 3:24 AM

African Founding Father of California left New Orleans, last N in the port, the legacy of a colorful word, with power and sound. a drop of n will make a difference. (image/jpeg)

The Daily DrEd July 24, 2006 Editing of Ed Ward, MD 2006-07-23 8:03 PM
Selected News of the Day (text/plain)

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