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Robert Davis is one of many who have been beaten by police no more violence 2005-10-13 12:42 AM
Robert Davis, the 64 year old man who was beaten by the New Orleans police two nights ago is not the first or the last to be beaten by the New Orleans Police. Here is some audio from another incident several weeks ago, of a 16-year old who was beaten and arrested in Algiers. (audio/mpeg + 4 comments)

Stop the Evictions! Mike Howells 2005-10-12 8:57 PM
Don't Let HUD Evict The Residents Of Forrest Park Apartments! (text/plain)

"Classism, Racism and Sexism Project: White People Find, Black People Loot." Peace Guru 2005-10-12 5:37 AM

On either of these websites http://www.opensource.dsame.com or http://www.campusactivism.org/displayresource-487.htm you will find two versions of this online printable zine: "The Open Source Classism, Racism and Sexism Project: Hurricane Katrina, The Blogosphere And Corporate Media... "White People Find, Black People Loot." (image/jpeg)

Un mes en Nueva Orleáns Michael Moore 2005-10-12 3:41 AM

Amigos, Mi equipo ha estado en Nueva Orleáns y la Costa del Golfo, durante casi un mes, enfrascado en la organización y la dirección de nuestros esfuerzos de auxilio junto a los Veteranos por la Paz. La asombrosa respuesta de muchos de ustedes ha afectado la vida de miles de personas. Esto es lo que hemos podido hacer con su ayuda (image/jpeg)

NOPD Is Taking New Orleans Back candleperson 2005-10-12 2:52 AM

A member of the NOPD going into the Greyhound bus station which has become a detention facility since Hurricane Katrina. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Jesse Jackson arrives in New Orleans marc 2005-10-12 2:01 AM

Reverend jesse jackson and his rainbow coalition arrived in New Orleans with hundreds of hurricane survivors hoping to find work and housing. Mama D was there to meet them, among others who attended their press conference at Piccadilly's restaurant. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was there promising a "living wage" for everyone saying, "the days of minimum wage are over." Job recruiters from McDonalds, Burger King, UPS, and other minimum-wage employers were there to hand out applications. there were also residents with signs demonstrating for their housing rights. (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

Sample Tests of Gulf of Mexico fish after Katrina: pollution levels from NOAA Fisheries Service 2005-10-11 9:22 PM
NOAA Fisheries Service did analyses of fish, water and sediment samples collected from coastal and offshore marine waters of the Gulf of Mexico after hurricane Katrina, I don't know if NOAA are neutral when they do their tests, or where in the Gulf they tested the waters, or if they also tested after hurricane Rita. Which parts of NOLA been tested? (text/plain)

Common Ground audio history by Malik Rahim and Scott Crow smarthur 2005-10-11 1:33 PM
Malik Rahim and Scott Crow give an oral history of Common Ground and its visions/aspirations. (audio/mpeg)

Caravan of Displaced N.O. Residents Arrives Today Jay Arena 2005-10-11 11:08 AM
Bring the Black Working Class Majority Back to New Orleans NOW! Stop the racist ruling elite's class and ethnic cleansing agenda (text/plain + 4 comments)

FEMA no longer releasing names to family members meg 2005-10-11 10:45 AM
FEMA is no longer releasing the names of the evacuees they are currently housing in the shelters in at least San Antonio. (text/plain)

New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! By Bill Quigley 2005-10-10 6:43 PM
Bill is a professor of law at Loyola University New Orleans where he directs the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and the Law Clinic and teaches Law and Poverty. Bill can be reached at duprestars@yahoo.com (text/plain + 1 comment)

NOPD beating caught on tape outraged 2005-10-10 3:05 AM
NOPD beating of 64 year old man and assault of Associated Press producer caught on tape and is aired around the world. (text/plain + 4 comments)

Wet Bank Guide Markus 2005-10-09 7:51 PM
Remembering Katrina, Envisioning New Orleans (text/plain)

Urgent: Prisoner Research Needed for NOLA Don 2005-10-09 1:08 PM
Hey, I'm down in New Orleans right now doing relief work with the Common Ground Collective (www.commongroundrelief.org), and some of us are trying to put together information and start working to support prisoners in the New Orleans area, particularly those being picked up every night for curfew violation. We're very busy here doing all sorts of work, so we need help doing research. If you can help with some of this, please get in touch ASAP. (text/plain)

Alive In Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History Project in Austin, Texas Abe Louise Young 2005-10-09 3:24 AM
Read the unmistakable voices of New Orleans natives as they describe their lives and their escapes from the city. Based in Austin, Texas which is home to 10,000 evacuees, Alive in Truth is a grassroots oral history project that seeks to understand the whole person before, during, and after the Disaster. Interviews are posted on the website for the public, and the stories will break and heal your heart. Read of Miranda, a caterer and poet; Soldier Man, a street preacher from the French Quarter; Joseph, a trash collector; Cleo, a high school student, and many more. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Gentrification Sweeps Algiers Streets Rolling in Cop Cars Ryme Katkhouda 2005-10-09 2:41 AM
Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point. (text/plain + 1 comment)

More dogs and 2 cats found shot to death at St. Bernard Elementary School pooter 2005-10-08 6:39 PM

More dogs and and 2 cats, left by evacuees for "safekeeping", found shot to death at a St. Bernard Elementary school. (image/gif + 1 comment)

Urgent Relief Needed for Native American Communities in LA Naomi Archer 2005-10-08 2:17 PM
CALL TO ACTION Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana (text/plain + 3 comments)

AUDIO: Malik Rahim Speaks About the Grassroots Response to Hurricane Katrina ~Bradley 2005-10-08 3:51 AM

On October 4, Malik Rahim, a longtime community activist in New Orleans and San Francisco, spoke at the Women's Building in San Francisco about the situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous response by the Bush administration and other government agencies. Malik, who lives in the Algiers community of New Orleans, discussed the grassroots community relief and rebuilding efforts underway through the Common Ground collective. (39:39 minutes) (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Aid volunteer, independent journalists arrested jdc 2005-10-07 3:21 AM
21:13 mp3 (audio/mpeg + 3 comments)

New Orleans Bookfair 2005 G.K. Darby 2005-10-06 11:46 PM
The New Orleans Bookfair goes on, as scheduled. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Clinic to open in Mid-City Christian Roselund 2005-10-06 3:32 PM
A fully functional free clinic will open on St. Bernard and Claiborne streets this Saturday from 10AM-4PM. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Update from Downtown 2 Christian Roselund 2005-10-06 3:16 PM
This morning (thursday 6th) I spoke with Sean Benjamin from the Iron Rail at his house on St. Claude in the Treme. He says that as people return to the city a number of businesses, including food stores, gas stations and even a hardware store are re-opening downtown, mostly in the quarter. He also gave updates on power, water and gas. (text/plain)

Santa Cruz Sends Relief to Louisiana from Santa Cruz Indymedia 2005-10-05 4:29 AM

Audio and photos from the report back with Curtis Reliford held on September 29 at the Santa Cruz Vets Hall. Curtis reported on the caravan that travelled from Santa Cruz to Louisiana (to Shreveport, Bogalusa, and New Orleans), to deliver four truckloads of goods donated by the people of Santa Cruz in the days following Hurricane Katrina. (image/jpeg)

Update from Downtown Christian Roselund 2005-10-05 2:59 AM
As the power is turned back on uptown, NOLA IMC member Camilla Brewer reports by phone that there is still no power, gas or phones working in the 7th, 8th, 9th wards, including the Mid-City, St. Roch and Bywater neighborhoods. Parts of the Treme close to the French Quarter have power and phone service, and many homes in the FQ have had power for some time. (text/plain)

Alliance for Affordable Energy Workshops- Baton Rouge October 8th Lolis Elie 2005-10-05 2:38 AM
The Alliance For Affordable Energy is to hold community workshops on rebuilding a New Orleans with less dependence on cars, as well as wetlands restoration and other environmental infrastructure projects on October 8th in Baton Rouge. From an article by Times-Picayune columnist Lolis Elie, a writer from the Treme and the only reason that there ever was to pick up a copy of the T-P. (reposted from NOLA.com by Christian Roselund) (text/plain)

New Images Posted from Common Ground smarthur 2005-10-04 8:27 PM
A few images from folks at the Common Ground Collective have been compiled and published. (text/html)

FSRN: Nagin announces 3000 layoffs -- half of city employees matt toups 2005-10-04 6:47 PM
Search operations for victims of Hurricane Katrina wrapped up this week as the New Orleans mayor announced future plans for the city. Matt Toups reports from New Orleans. (audio: 1:09) (audio/mpeg)

Official LA Death Toll 972; 8000 Bodies Still In Morgue DAVID ZUCCHINOand NICHOLAS RICCARDI, LA Times 2005-10-04 6:45 PM
While CNN and our more corrupt corporate media spin the death toll at 972, a morgue in Baton Rouge already holds 8000 corpses from the storm. Only 32 have been positively identified at this time. (text/plain + 4 comments)

Fires break out as electricity comes back on uptown matt toups 2005-10-04 12:47 PM

On Monday October 3rd, Entergy began restoring electrical fires further uptown, towards the Carrollton section. When the power came back on during the day, small fires broke out, and one home on Nelson St. was consumed by fire. (image/jpeg)

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