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Bush to return to New Orleans Thu Jan 12 reposted from nola.com 2006-01-06 8:12 PM
Bush is coming back to New Orleans, according to a post on NOLA.com. They say next Thursday, Jan 12. Perhaps some spirited protests? Some signs saying, "don't drown us again"; "we have your words but so far little else"; or.. something better hopefully. (text/plain + 2 comments)

An Unfragmented Movement: Interview with Shana Griffin Joanna Dubinsky 2006-01-06 12:50 PM
An interview with Shana Griffin, one of the leaders of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and the People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition. This article was first published in the independent journal Against the Current. "It is not “what can I do,” but “what can we do.” Shana argues that organizing, especially organizing post-Katrina, requires collective action. "To build this [movement] we have to put all our own agendas aside and look to the people most adversely impacted, and that is the challenge." (text/plain)

City of New Orleans Violates Restraining Order Cassandra Burrows 2006-01-06 10:10 AM

New Orleans residents faced a standoff with demolition workers in the lower 9th Ward of New Orleans on Thursday morning after city officials ordered the violation of a temporary restraining order against demolition. Community members and legal activists have been working to insure that all residents receive notification and give permission when their property becomes a target for demolition. (image/jpeg)

Rebuild? Not if FEMA has its way! "Elevation requirements" a ploy for the rich Edward Miller, UNO Professor of Economics 2006-01-05 11:57 PM
There is another issue that is perhaps even more important [than the bulldozing], the FEMA sponsored elevation requirements. As you probably know New Orleans and most other cities will not issue building permits to repair structures in the statutory flood plain (most of New Orleans and vicinity) when they are more than 50% damaged unless they are elevated to the base flood level. This is not because this is believed to be a wise policy but because FEMA threatens to withdraw flood insurance from communities that do not require this. (text/plain)

Building Free Clinics instead of Bulldozing m.b.black 2006-01-05 9:46 PM

As activists and residents oppose city "rebuilding" efforts of bulldozing the lower 9th ward, common ground volunteers gut the newest free clinic on N.Robertson and Pauline St. in the 9th Ward. VIDEO interview with nurse mid-wife volunteer, Ellen Catalinotto, about the Common Ground Free Clinic and the needs of a nascent Women's Center follows. It is approximately 23 MGS and 13 minutes in Quicktime.mov format. Click on link or cut and paste url to view VIDEO. (image/png)

Bulldozing in 9th Ward- Please Help Common Ground 2006-01-05 7:33 PM
Immediate Call To Action! Bulldozing in 9th Ward Imminent!!!! (text/plain)

Big Profits, Buried Lives: Bulldozing the Dead in New Orleans Scott Boehm 2006-01-05 1:35 PM
As the city attempts a Lower 9th Ward land grab, concerned community members and groups are fighting back. (text/plain + 1 comment)

The Best Housing & Poverty Review of 2005 Lynda Carson 2006-01-04 6:36 PM
The Nation's Housing Policies Are A Complete Disaster! (text/plain)

Class Action Fight to Prevent Bulldozing: Press Conference for Lower 9th Ward PHRF 2006-01-04 2:12 PM
Residents from the Lower 9th Ward and their supporters will hold a press conference at New Orleans City Hall Thursday, January 5th, at 9:30am, opposing the City's plan to bulldoze homes. (text/plain)

Lower 9th Ward: The People Must Decide resident 2006-01-04 11:39 AM
Legal Victory delays Property Demolition, Displaced Residents vow to fight for their voice in any redevelopment. (text/plain)

Keep MLK Parade in the 9th Ward Mike Howells 2006-01-03 9:31 PM
Grass roots groups to begin MLK march in traditional starting point: Caffin and N. Claiborne in Lower 9th ward. Monday, January 16, 9 AM. (text/plain)

Lower 9th Ward Citizens Fight Demolition in New Orleans Randeep Walia 2006-01-02 11:25 PM

The city of New Orleans is attempting to destroy the homes of residents in the Lower 9th Ward. This is in spite of a temporary moratorium won by social justice groups against the city which blocks attempts to bulldoze the homes of Lower 9th Ward residents. The moratorium, which ends on January 6th, 2006, is being circumvented by the city through the unconstitutional use of eminent domain. Local residents are working alongside Common Ground Collective, a grass-roots organization working for the rights of displaced and neglected victims of Hurricane Katrina, and are protesting the action and calling on citizens everywhere to get involved. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Chief Al's Stuff FluxRostrum 2006-01-02 12:37 AM
10 min Quicktime video (text/html + 1 comment)

witness #3 Barry Scott 2006-01-01 2:57 PM
I have video, audio, and photos of the New Orleans police shooting incident on St. Charles. (text/plain)

Katrina Refugees Road Trip to DC to oust these Lying Criminal SOBs Jerry 2005-12-31 4:26 PM

Katrina Survivors can get $50 tickets to travel to DC Feb 8th and 9th. Hopefully some will stay "as long as it takes". Some are calling for a protest at the State of the Union, not after. Better to surround the building when Bush and Congress are all in it together. (image/jpeg)

why is the local news filled with borrowed stories? why? 2005-12-30 11:13 AM
the local news sidebar is completely dominated by borrowed stories and is stiffling out indepentent news contributors to indymedia. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Bulldozing Suit Filed; Demolitions on Hold justiceforneworleans 2005-12-30 6:11 AM
12-28-05 Attorneys from the Loyola Law Clinic and the Washington D.C.- based Advancement Project filed suit today on behalf of New Orleans residents whose homes are slated for demolition, seeking to stop demolitions until due process is guaranteed. After a hearing, Judge Herbert Cade of Orleans Civil District Court signed a consent judgment in which the city agreed to to take no further action on demolitions until further proceedings are held next month. (text/plain)

Forget Canizaro and Young's plans--movement builds for MLK Day march and demands jay arena 2005-12-30 5:33 AM
"You have to participate in government if you want to get something out of it." Joe Canizaro, in response to query about the $240,000 "soft money" donation he made to the Republican National State Elections Committee in 2000. (text/plain)

Tell the EPA to protect New Orleans hurricane victims from toxic chemicals and mold NRDC 2005-12-30 5:29 AM
Take action - click on the link to send a letter.. The floodwaters of hurricanes Katrina and Rita left contaminated sediments and toxic mold throughout New Orleans. Urge the EPA to clean up these harmful sediments and instruct residents and workers how to protect themselves from dangerous levels of mold. (text/plain)

Dec. 12 Ruling: Extension of FEMA hotel stays until Feb. 7 KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Writer 2005-12-30 5:27 AM
NEW ORLEANS Dec 12, 2005 — A federal judge ruled Monday that a program that is putting tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees up in hotels must be extended until Feb. 7 a month beyond the cutoff date set by FEMA. (text/plain)

Housing woes still buffet Gulf's storm-tossed lives By Sacha Pfeiffer, Globe Staff 2005-12-30 5:18 AM
December 10, 2005 Collapsed ceilings, falling sheetrock, and no water or electricity drove Greg Dedeaux out of his Gulfport, Miss., apartment after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast three months ago. For two weeks, the 52-year-old truck driver slept in his 1995 Jeep Cherokee. (text/plain)

Washington Post: For a Former Panther, Solidarity After the Storm Michelle Garcia, Washington Post Staff Writer 2005-12-30 5:16 AM
Sunday, December 4, 2005; D01 NEW ORLEANS -- Malik Rahim, a granddaddy with a broad face and long gray dreadlocks, leans across his wooden kitchen table and with a low Nawlins growl lets you know what he thinks local pols did for racial harmony. (text/plain)

Death, Abundance and New Orleans jordan flaherty 2005-12-30 5:12 AM
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 On Sunday, I drove past streets named Abundance, Pleasure and Humanity to a memorial for Meg Perry, a 26 year old Common Ground Collective volunteer from Maine. Meg died on Saturday when the bus she was in crashed near downtown New Orleans. She had come to New Orleans in September, then left and returned with more volunteers. The memorial was in a community garden she had been working on in the Gentilly neighborhood. All around were empty houses. It was a small moment of mourning, in a city of mourning. Mourning that feels like it won’t end, because the disaster hasn’t ended. (text/plain)

Left to Die Billy Sothern - the Nation 2005-12-30 5:10 AM
article | posted December 14, 2005 (January 2, 2006 issue) If, as Dostoyevsky claimed, the degree of civilization of a society can be measured by the treatment of its prisoners, we are in even deeper trouble in New Orleans than many realize. In this city, under the radar of most media, the biggest prison crisis since Attica is unfolding. And no one seems to care, because despite Hurricane Katrina's having "exposed" American poverty and racism, mass incarceration of poor black Americans remains an accepted, if overlooked, fact of modern life. After all, the thinking goes, they did the crime, now they have to do the time. However, like everything else in New Orleans, it's not so simple. (text/plain)

In the Shadow of Disaster Ari Kelman - the Nation 2005-12-30 4:57 AM
article | posted December 14, 2005 (January 2, 2006 issue) The flood was voracious; it swallowed whole neighborhoods, ending hundreds of lives. But the battered levees have been repaired. They again stand between New Orleans and catastrophe, holding the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain in check. The antique drainage system, too, is back online. Any water that falls in the city, every drop of rain or tear shed, ultimately flows through canals until it's pumped over the levee into the lake. This is how New Orleans has been engineered: to control stray water, to clarify the border between the city and its surroundings. (text/plain)

New Orleans Blues the nation 2005-12-30 4:54 AM
editorial | posted December 15, 2005 (January 2, 2006 issue) Three months ago, after chafing from criticism over his failure to even appear to respond to the suffering in New Orleans, George W. Bush finally made it to Jackson Square to deliver his promise that "this great city will rise again." Yet today the great city remains largely in darkness. Most citizens of New Orleans are outside its boundaries, many with no real prospect of returning. What's rising in New Orleans are divorce and suicide rates, toxic dumps, foreclosures and rage. (text/plain)

Doing the Math naomi klein 2005-12-30 4:46 AM
Here's how we identified more than 11,000 empty, rentable homes in New Orleans: (text/plain)

NY Times Editorial: Death of an American City nytimes 2005-12-30 4:42 AM
December 11, 2005 If the rest of the nation has decided it is too expensive to give the people of New Orleans a chance at renewal, we have to tell them so. We must tell them we spent our rainy-day fund on a costly stalemate in Iraq, that we gave it away in tax cuts for wealthy families and shareholders. We must tell them America is too broke and too weak to rebuild one of its great cities. (text/plain)

Goodbye, New Orleans Mike Tidwell 2005-12-30 4:39 AM
AS WE REACH THE 90-DAY mark since Katrina hit, it's time we ended our national state of denial. Turns out House Speaker Dennis Hastert had it right all along, though his reasons were flawed. We should call it quits in New Orleans not because the city can't be made relatively safe from hurricanes. It can be. And not because to do so is more trouble than it's worth. It's not. But because the Bush Administration has already given New Orleans a quiet kiss of death now that the story has run its news cycle. (text/plain)

Reaching for Higher Ground: an interview with Russell Henderson Sarah Ruth van Gelder - YES! Magazine 2005-12-30 4:27 AM
YES! Magazine Winter 2006 Issue: Spiritual Uprising interview with Russ Henderson, organizer with the Rebuilding Louisiana Coalition No-bid contracts. "Opportunity" zones. Massive federal spending. Big decisions are being made about the Gulf region, but what do residents and evacuees want? YES! editor Sarah van Gelder asked Russell Henderson, a resident of New Orleans and a convener of the Rebuild Louisiana Coalition. (text/plain)

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