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Common Ground and Conflict: Looking Back on New Orleans and Working With Brandon Darby C. 2009-01-29 1:42 AM
This is a retrospective look on volunteering at the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans from December 11th, 2006 to January 3rd, 2007, and then later from mid-February to mid-March '07, under FBI-informant Brandon Darby's new hierarchy. How did he change things, and how could his involvement with federal agents have affected the group? (text/plain)

Darby not informant in NOLA Cassidy Sheek 2009-01-28 8:01 PM
Brandon Darby didn't inform on Common Ground. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Alexander: Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Plan offers too little, too late Stewart A. Alexander 2009-01-28 6:47 PM
With less than 10 days in office, President Barack Obama has indicated that his $825 billion economic stimulus package will energize the U.S. economy and create future jobs for more than three million Americans. Socialists nationwide are rejecting this new call for deficit spending and are calling for programs that will meet the short and long term needs of the nation and create immediate employment for the millions of working people that are unemployed or under-employed. (text/plain)

New Terror Detention Facility Bill Ness 2009-01-28 10:11 AM
New Terror Detention Facility (text/plain)

Gambit Omits Letter from Indymedia on Censorship New Orleans Indymedia 2009-01-28 5:28 AM
Ironically, Project Censored's #2 story, the Security and Prosperity Partnership was in fact convened in New Orleans in April of this year. Unfortunately, Gambit Weekly did not cover this "NAFTA on Steroids," as it was described in last week's feature. Nor have major local media such as the Times Picayune reported in any depth on other Project Censored stories with local relevance. originally sent to the Gambit on December 5, 2008. (text/plain)

Humanity Under Attack by the Zionist Enemy of Life King Johnny 2009-01-27 10:48 PM

Not only that but the BBC argued that to show innocent Human Beings suffering, in CRITICAL life threatening need of desperate food and water that Israeli nazi stole, (because they are unlawful murderous thieves), would have them look like they were partial to serving Humanity's interest in compassion for US humans. (image/gif)

Reid: Vote on Employee Free Choice Act card check bill, a labor priority, likely in summer Employee Free Choice Act Now . Org 2009-01-27 7:25 PM

Washington — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate will likely turn its attention this summer to the Employee Free Choice Act — the union organizing bill being watched in Las Vegas and across the nation. (image/jpeg)

The Landless Workers Movement and the American "bubble"... Emilio de Lima 2009-01-27 4:16 PM
We all know that tiny and small business those that employ more, we all know that the smart guys of the market should cover the leak that they have produced and they are all free and happy while people like the federal policeman Protógenes suffers mysterious accidents. Pictures at http://rvcb.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/511/ (text/plain)

Blood type: rapist’s “O negative“ — convict’s “O positive“ Katja Pumm 2009-01-27 1:27 PM

The recent death of exonerated prisoner Clyde Charles’ has brought the public’s attention to his and Marlo Charles’ criminal case. Now he has left new DNA samples to his brother to be used in court. (image/jpeg)

Treatment Worsens at Juvenile Jail, City Enters Settlement Talks Matt Olson 2009-01-27 12:38 AM
“Things have actually gotten worse since the lawsuit.” This is Wesley Ware, a youth advocate for Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL), describing conditions at New Orleans’ juvenile jail eight months after the group filed a last-resort lawsuit to shut down the decrepit, hurricane-damaged facility. (text/plain)

The City that Health Care Forgot Darwin BondGraham 2009-01-27 12:37 AM
An overview of the controversy between renovating and modernizing Charity Hospital or the creation of an entirely new and expensive teaching hospital that would displace the Lower Mid-City neighborhood. (text/plain + 1 comment)

New Terror Detention Facility Ben K. 2009-01-26 8:44 AM
President Obama this week signed an executive order (text/plain)

Organizing Call- Workers' International Industrial Union WIIU 2009-01-25 3:24 PM
A call to organize under the Workers' International Industrial Union- a union for all wage workers, no matter what your job and whether you are employed or unemployed. (text/plain)

Free Dinner Dance on January 31 Community Center of St Bernard 2009-01-23 11:19 PM
The Community Center of St Bernard at 1107 LeBeau St in Arabi will hold a free dinner dance featuring Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove on January 31 from 5 PM - 10 PM. (text/plain)

Documentary Film Series Jan Clifford 2009-01-23 10:23 PM
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities continues Documentary Film Series W/ Louisiana Story, The Reverse Angle Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7 pm 938 Lafayette St., New Orleans 504.523.4352 $5 adm. (text/plain)

Demand a "Bailout" on your Credit Card Debt & Interest!!! k.hawley 2009-01-23 5:21 AM
If these very same "Bailed_Out Banks" are freely being extended hundreds of $Billions and even $Trillions of dollars of "Free Money" (courtesy of the unwitting US taxpayers!) to offset their "self created" financial calamity,then why shouldn't American consumers also be "Bailed Out" of their vastly inflated and criminally exploitive cedit card debt plus interest payments!!! (text/plain)

Free Home Decor Items To be given out on January 30 Community Center of St Bernard 2009-01-23 1:09 AM
On January 30, low-income residents can receive free home decor items, including rugs, sofas, lamps, etc. Residents must be enrolled in the Mustard Seed Program at the Community Center of St Bernard in order to participate. (text/plain)

Starting Over in Gaza Audrey Stewart 2009-01-22 8:31 PM
Yesterday morning I visited Toffah, a small farming area about one mile from the Israeli border. As we climbed the hill towards the farms, the damage steadily increased. Houses were completely crushed. Orange, olive, and lemon trees were bulldozed into the ground. People were hard at work everywhere. Women carrying babies and children as young as 5 or 6 were picking up oranges and sifting through the rubble for still usable clothes and household items. (text/plain)

Why We Chained Ourselves to the Israeli Consulate Lisa Adler, Robin Ellis, and Eric Romann 2009-01-22 8:03 PM
Jewish Angelenos Oppose Israeli Siege on Gaza by chaining themselves to the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on January 14, 2009. Another Jewish-led group shut down the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles. (text/plain)

Photos: MLK Day in Louis Armstrong Park Matt Olson 2009-01-22 7:43 PM

On the morning of January 19, 2009, one day before the inauguration of the first African-American U.S. President, New Orleanians came together in Louis Armstrong Park before marching to Martin Luther King Boulevard in Central City. (image/jpeg)

Links to Graphic Images of Gaza Hajja Romi 2009-01-21 8:30 PM
Websites that show photos of Israeli war crimes (mass murder, use of prohibited weapons) in Gaza. Duration of video pieces unknown. (text/plain)

Employee Free Choice Act - Union Civil Rights Activists Vow to Keep King’s Dream Alive. Employee Free Choice Act Now . Org 2009-01-20 1:04 AM

by James Parks, Jan 19, 2009 Union civil rights activists this weekend celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., by committing to hold the new administration and Congress accountable and carry on the work they did in the 2008 election to mobilize workers in support of a strong progressive agenda. (image/jpeg)

Why I am in Gaza Audrey Stewart (repost) 2009-01-19 9:35 PM
In our visits with the community in Gaza, we ask each person that we meet what message they would like to send back to the US. Over and over we hear the same message, “Please tell the world that we are people with dreams for ourselves and our children - we are just like you.” (text/plain)

Free Palestine, End the Israeli Occupation Demonstration Matt Olson 2009-01-19 12:51 AM

More than 200 people marched up Canal Street Sunday and chanted, held signs and Palestinian flags. "Gaza Gaza We are Here! Tell your children not to fear!" resounded one chant, emphasizing the intented solidarity of the march with Palestinians. (image/jpeg + 9 comments)

Entergy: The Sound of Things Falling Apart, Part 2 Michael Steinberg 2009-01-18 10:59 PM
The second part of a report on how Entergy's future is looking grimmer. This part focuses on resistance to Entergy's schemes with its nuclear plants up north. (text/plain)

Eating Crow: Mistakes, Brandon Darby, the FBI and Our Resilience scott crow 2009-01-18 1:09 AM
Brandon Darby, it has now been revealed, is deceitful to himself and to those around him. But I guess the state likes those types (text/plain)

"Suddenly Bombs Started Falling." A Brief Report From Inside Gaza (January 17, Audrey Stewart and Kathy Kelly. 2009-01-17 2:22 AM
Kathy Kelly is with Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Audrey Stewart is a human rights worker with Loyola University New Orleans. They have been in Egypt since January 8, 2009. (text/plain)

Walk to Stop Mountain Top Removal peacehq 2009-01-15 7:11 PM
On February 14th at 6:30pm at the Friends Meeting House Lexington KY there will be a pot luck dinner and a program "Why we walk". (text/plain)

U.S. Human Rights Groups Decry the Bush Administration’s Whitewash Report to UN repost 2009-01-15 4:58 PM
Groups Call on the Obama Administration to Implement Recommendations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (text/plain)

National Committee to Free the Angola 3 Statement on Brandon Darby road 2009-01-15 8:05 AM
It is beyond our comprehension that with the massive need in New Orleans since Katrina, and communities throughout the United States, that the Federal Government would choose to utilize tax payers money to infiltrate groups exercising their First Amendment Constitutional Rights. (text/plain)

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