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Legalize Squatting and Solve Multiple City Problems At The Same Time! nola anarcha 2012-01-19 12:24 AM
In the direct action struggle over housing in New Orleans, the current situation is roughly as follows: there are many squatters, numbering at least in the hundreds. Many of them are people of color, all of them are poor. Many squatters are arrested and jailed regularly, especially african-american squatters who dare to attempt it, as well as other vulnerable populations (youth, queers, women, etc..). (text/html)

NOLA Satellite Government Keeping Track Of New Orleans' Public Entities Kyle Barnett 2012-01-19 12:24 AM
A conversation with NOLA Satellite Goverment co-founder Dr. Aaron Schneider about tracking public funds through numerous local public entities. (audio/mpeg)

Angola Warden Burl Cain on "Black Pantherism" LJI 2012-01-14 9:31 PM
Last week, the newsletter of the International Coalition to Free the Angola Three published recently transcribed testimony of the October 2008 deposition of Burl Cain, Warden of Angola Prison, questioned by Nick Trenticosta, an attorney representing former Black Panther and Angola Three member Albert Woodfox. The testimony, quoted below, reveals a lot about Cain's view of Black Panthers and others who have engaged in prison organizing. (text/plain)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Victor P of Plan B Bikes scott eustis 2012-01-13 3:42 PM
We talk to Victor about the upcoming benefit from Tour of Wurdz for Plan B bikes at the HiHo lounge. (9pm st claude and marigny) (audio/mpeg)

Photo Essay: Party Like It's 1960s South Africa! NOLA Anarcha 2012-01-11 8:37 PM
This article is a photo essay of the direction, motivation, and consequences of the profound and fast-paced changes happening in the CBD and lower mid-city in New Orleans. Since Katrina, the re-colonization of the city by rapacious Capital has accelerated to a head-spinning pace. The neighborhood documented is not unique, the same kinds of activities are taking place city-wide. When colonization occurs on such a massive scale, only a total revolt can change the dystopian future the present developments are creating. (text/html)

From Carnival to Rebellion: #Occupy Mardi Gras NOLA Anarcha 2012-01-10 5:32 PM
Some academic has published an article entitled Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility which talks a lot about local anarchists and other unruly carnivalesque factions, such as the Krewe of Eris, local professor John Clark's writings, and it even mentions this very blog, if we may humbly admit. It discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement and it's adaptations of carnivalesque qualities in it's recent actions against the ruling oligarchy. (text/html + 1 comment)

New Years Eve Noise Demo at OPP: In solidarity with all prisoners/Against all prisons! Nola anarcha 2012-01-10 4:52 PM

Traffic Camera Scam Continues, Landrieu Chooses Police State Crackdown Over Justice Nola anarcha 2012-01-10 4:47 PM
The notorious scam that is traffic camera system in New Orleans, installed for "free" by a private company, which takes a large share of the fines generated and gives the remainder to the city (in what is commonly understood as a "kickback scheme"), continues to enrage local drivers and many are refusing to pay. (text/plain)

The Apartheid Police State of New Orleans, Louisiana Nola anarcha 2012-01-10 4:44 PM
Louisiana has had the distinction of being at, or close to, the #1 spot on all the wrong lists for a long time: lack of education, poverty rate, child poverty, inequality, corruption, nepotism, racism, incarceration rate, illiteracy, lack of health care, etc... It's why the t-shirts and bumpers stickers saying "Louisiana... Third World and Proud Of It" resonate with everyday people in our state. (text/plain)

Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party --An interview w/ Alondra Nelson Angola 3 News 2011-12-23 5:36 AM

Alondra Nelson, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, is the author of a new book released last month, entitled Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. Nelson writes that “the Party’s focus on health care was both practical and ideological.” On a practical level, the BPP provided free community health care services, including preventative education. Simultaneously, the BPP railed against the medical-industrial complex, declaring that health care was “a right and not a privilege.” By 1970, People’s Free Medical Clinics had become a requirement for every BPP chapter. In 1972, the BPP revised point six of the founding ten-point-platform, adding a demand for “completely free healthcare for all black and oppressed people." (image/jpeg)

Registration for free computer classes begins Jan 2 Community Center of St Bernard 2011-12-21 7:31 PM
Registration for free computer classes at the Community Center of St Bernard begins on Jan 2 at 9 AM. Please phone 504.281.2512. (text/plain)

Holiday Celebration and Toy GiveAway on Dec 18 Community Center of St Bernard 2011-12-09 3:48 PM
This year's Annual Holiday Celebration and Toy GiveAway will be held on December 18, 2011 at the Community Center, 1111 LeBeau St in Arabi. The GiveAway will begin at noon and continue until 3 PM. Gifts will be available for children age 12 and under whose families participate in the Center's Mustard Seed Food Pantry. (text/plain)

Anti-Solitary Confinement Petition by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture Angola 3 News 2011-12-04 6:01 AM

A new petition calling for the abolition of prolonged solitary confinement in US prisons was launched this week by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. (image/jpeg)

RSD critics protest outside John McDonough HS over charter school plans Matt Toups, WTUL News & Views 2011-12-02 11:01 PM
Interviews with Renard Sanders, former Principal of John McDonough, as well as other concerned parents about RSD's efforts to turn nearly all remaining schools into charter schools. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views: World AIDS Awareness Day and Louisiana's Failed Sex Ed. Politics Kyle Barnett 2011-12-01 3:34 AM
World AIDS Awareness Day (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

WTUL News and Views and Views: Restore the Earth Foundation Scott Eustis 2011-11-23 2:51 PM
Scott Eustis interviews Restore the Earth Foundation administrators on their work providing coastal habitat for birds during and after the Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill. (Running time: 9:08; Broadcast 11/11/2011) (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views interviews Karran Harper Royal on BESE election matt toups 2011-11-18 3:32 PM
Matt Toups interviews parent and longtime education advocate Karran Harper Royal. On the table are Saturday's election for NOLA's representative for the BESE, a statewide body that oversees the Recovery School District and the state takeover of local schools. [6.7MB, 7min] (audio/mpeg)

Rebecca Solnit speaks at Occupy NOLA WTUL News & Views 2011-11-14 3:04 PM
Rebecca Solnit stopped by Avery Alexander Park (near City Hall) on October 31, 2011 to speak to locals about occupations nationwide, her experiences at Occupy Oakland, and how it relates to post-Katrina New Orleans and other disaster areas. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

OPP Solidarity Noise Demo Abolish Prisons 2011-11-10 11:39 PM

Solidarity Noise Demo at Orleans Parish Prison (OPP), New Orleans, LA, USA. (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

BTL:Federal-State Task Force Proposes Strategy to Restore Oil Spill-Ravaged Gulf of Mexico Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2011-11-04 3:01 PM
Interview with Aaron Viles, deputy director with the Gulf Restoration Network, conducted by Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

WTUL News & Views interviews Healthcare not Wealthcare campaign Kezia Kamenetz, WTUL News & Views 2011-10-28 4:13 PM
October 3 interview with Colleen O'Brien and others from Healthcare not Wealthcare. (mp3, 19:48) (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

WTUL News interviews Chris Chaisson of United Houma Nation Leanne Sarco 2011-10-24 5:44 AM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Chris Chaisson of the United Houma Nation on the struggles of coastal communities, which face the challenges of an encroaching Gulf of Mexico, a dismissive State of Louisiana Master Plan, and the two edged sword of Oil Corporations, which hire coastal communities but do not keep their promises. (audio/mpeg)

Holly on Health: The Athlete Brain Holly Peek 2011-10-24 4:53 AM
The Athlete Brain Something most athletes have in common is drive. This intense work ethic and drive to win is what generally leads to an athlete’s success. Athletes often push themselves to mental and physical limits, despite scrapes, bruises, broken bones, and what may seem to be “minor” head injuries or concussions. (audio/mpeg)

Free Blood Pressure Checks Community Center of St Bernard 2011-10-12 4:58 PM
Blood pressure checks available at the Community Center of St Bernard, 1111 LeBeau St, Arabi on October 19 from 11 Am - 3 pm through Charity School of Nursing at Delgado Community College. (text/plain)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Aaron Viles on the Gulf Task Force Strategy and RESTORE Act scott eustis 2011-10-07 3:25 PM
WTUL News and Views interviews Aaron Viles on the RESTORE Act and the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Strategy (audio/mpeg)

Temple-Inland Executives Should face Jail Time Elizabeth Cook 2011-09-04 6:09 PM
Temple-Inland execuitves, for its apparent deliberate poisoning of the Pearl River with the toxic stew called "black liquor", a by-product of paper mills, should face jail time for flagrant, criminal violations. (text/html)

Temple-Inland Paper Mill Has Resumed Dumping into the Pearl River Elizabeth Cook 2011-08-27 8:18 PM
Temple-Inland has resumed dumping "waste water" into the Pearl River, and will resume production and the discharge of black liquor into the Pearl River possibly by Monday. (text/html)

Signup for free computer classes on Sept 5 Community Center of St Bernard 2011-08-26 8:42 PM
Computer class registration at the Community Center of St Bernard begins on Sept 5. Please phone 504.281.2512 after 9 AM with your name and phone number. You will receive a phone call on Sept 6 to confirm. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Report from Bogalusa: Seething Anger and Illness on the Pearl River Elizabeth Cook 2011-08-24 2:00 PM
There is evidence of a cover-up of the actual starting date of this incident, and illness people are experiencing who came in contact with the Pearl River during the massive fish kill. (text/plain)

Local Civil Rights Activist Detained by I.C.E. WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-08-22 2:39 PM
Delmy Palencia, a Civil Rights activist with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a few weeks after a domestic dispute with her husband. Jacinta Gonzalez, lead organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers, explains the case, the targeting of activists and its implications for women coming forward against domestic violence. mp3 [10min; 4.9 MB] (audio/mpeg)

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