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Discussion on Congressional Bill to Reopen Public Housing In New Orleans Mike Howells 2007-03-13 11:33 PM
The U.S. House of Representatives is considering legislation that would compell HUD to reopen at least some of the city's public housing units that have been shuttered since Katrina. Supporters of the right of return need to understand just what this legislation would mean to the fight for affordable housing in New Orleans. (text/plain)

Repuglicon Enemies J. Wizard 2007-03-13 7:42 PM
Let's save some lives, what do you say guys? Or, are we going to go further with this: George W. Bush: "If the absence of violence is victory, no one will ever win." (audio/mpeg)

Organizing in the Gulf South against Legal Slavery under the H2B Visa Program Bardamu 2007-03-13 6:58 PM
Labor and immigrants rights organizations across the gulf south and nationally are calling for reform or elimination of the H2B visas system as new reports of abuses of immigrant workers are surfacing and workers organize against a system which the Southern Poverty Law Center says is "close to slavery" (text/html + 3 comments)

Official Statement of Friends of Kevin! www.myspace.com/freekevinjohnson 2007-03-13 1:31 AM
THE CASE SO FAR In July 2005, 12-year-old Joseph "Bam Bam" Long collapsed on the floor of his house in Kirkwood (St. Louis County). Police, slow to respond to his family's 911 calls, finally arrived, and then, neglecting to even check his pulse, simply stood around waiting for an ambulance while Bam Bam lay face down. Upon arrival, paramedics pronounced him dead. Hours later, one of those cops, Sgt. William McEntee, lay dead in a pool of his own blood several blocks from Bam Bam's house. Authorities swarmed the Meacham Park neighborhood kicking in doors and terrorizing residents. Days later, desperate to blame someone, police arrested Bam Bam's older brother, Kevin Johnson. In the lead up to Kevin's March 26th (2007) trial, the state has been going to great lengths to portray Kevin as a monster- accusing him, his family, and his friends of interfering with witnesses. The state and its courts have made their intentions clear: they plan to execute Kevin. What should be abundantly clear by now, though, is it's not Kevin who's the monster. The state is the real monster. (text/plain)

Cantas para Jacquie C 2007-03-12 8:53 PM
Todos son por Marco Amador (audio/x-wav + 1 comment)

Security Guard Attacked Video Security Guard 2007-03-12 7:06 PM

Security Guard Attacked Video Stabbing a guard, store owner wraps a mop around the criminal's head 30 times. Damn tough bloody head. (image/jpeg)

H2B Guest Workers Speak on Imprisonment, Exploitation Bardamu 2007-03-12 4:23 PM
Guest workers across the Gulf South are organizing against the conditions contractors are subjecting them to in the H2B Visa program, which immigration lawyers and organizers are calling "inherently exploitative". Following an incident last week where Indian guest workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi say they were imprisoned by their employer, Indian and Mexican guest workers met in solidarity this weekend. Following is a series of interviews with Indian and Mexican guest workers, Jennifer Rosenbaum of the Immigration Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Sakhet Soni of the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

Indian H2B visa workers imprisoned, enslaved in Gulf Coast Signal H2B Employees Organization 2007-03-11 10:19 AM
A Mississippi company imprisoned its workers in a pre-dawn raid Friday morning, holding six workers against their will. As of Friday afternoon all six workers had been released from captivity by the Signal corporation. Following is a Letter from "Signal H2B Employees Organization", the organization of H2B guest workers from India working for Signal International, LLC. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Secrets about the State Secrets Privilege Gavin R. Putland 2007-03-10 4:10 PM
Four things wrong with the Bush administration's use of the State Secrets Privilege (text/plain)

Make a Film and Make a Difference! Rachel Peterson 2007-03-09 1:43 PM

NUFF Global is a grassroots side-project of the Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) held each year in Tromsø, Norway. (image/jpeg)

Art of War : Veterans Larmee 2007-03-09 5:04 AM

Veterans (image/jpeg)

A28: Nationwide Protests for Impeachment sweeet pea 2007-03-09 3:30 AM

On April 28th, thousands of Americans will stand up to demand the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. (image/gif)

AmeriCorps NCCC Members Working With Local Red Cross Sean Farrell 2007-03-08 10:15 PM
NCCC team heads to New Orleans to aid in Hurricane Katrina Relief (text/html + 4 comments)

Solidarity with Danish youth house solidarity 2007-03-08 8:38 PM
let's get em Danish Consulate - NEW ORLEANS 321 ST. CHARLES AV., 70130 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA (text/plain + 1 comment)

Scripted Libby Trial Ends on Cue: What Can Happen Next? William Hughes 2007-03-08 3:30 PM

The Prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, crafted the “Scooter� Libby case to protect the Bush-Cheney Gang. Even the members of Libby’s jury knew something was missing. Now, it’s time for the House’s Judiciary Committee to pick up the baton. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NEV) said Libby manipulated “intelligence� to get us into the war and that the case revealed “deeper truths� about VP Dick Cheney. I say: “Bring Cheney to the Bar of Justice!� (image/jpeg)

A LAWFUL MEANS OF BALANCING THE BUDGET Mark Walter Evans 2007-03-08 6:23 AM
A Proposal that Would Require the Following Amendment to the Federal Constitution: (text/plain)

Old Left Radicalism on The Money Issue Mark Walter Evans 2007-03-08 6:12 AM
During the 'teens, twenties and 'thirties of the past century, radical political formations in America called for the nationalization of the Federal Reserve System and of Credit. (text/plain)

audio: Fatma Aydin with the newly opened La Vita restaurant Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-03-07 6:57 PM

The Sacco and Vanzetti Case Revisited William Hughes 2007-03-07 2:56 PM

On August 23, 1927, the State of Massachusetts executed two-Italian born immigrants for their alleged roles in the murders and robbery of a payroll clerk and his security guard on April 15, 1920. The condemned, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were militant anarchists. A mockery of a fair trial led to their ultimate fate. Professor Deborah Contrada revisits their case and concludes that there was “reasonable doubt, easily� as to their guilt. (image/jpeg)

NOLA Public Housing Battle Continues Kari Lydersen 2007-03-07 2:31 AM
New Orleans -- Sharon Sears Jasper starts to cry as she remembers the good days at St. Bernard Housing Development, one of New Orleans’ public housing projects at the center of the fight over the future of public housing in the post-Katrina city. (text/html)

author interview: Chinese business, politics and trade vs globalization, challenge Financial Sense 2007-03-06 2:59 PM
learn about globalization and China (text/plain)

An Appeal to Philippine President Arroyo various 2007-03-06 2:23 AM

Stop agrarian violence and killing of farmers! Implement agrarian reform in contentious landholdings! (image/jpeg)

The Rising Tide Spring Roadshow is coming to New Orleans!! Common Ground Media 2007-03-05 2:18 AM
We are here to change the world, but also to have fun- Expect songs, laughter, inspiring discussions and amazing stories! Listen to an interview with Evan Greer, an organizer with the Roadshow. (audio/x-ms-wma + 1 comment)

What's Going On 101 Required 2007-03-04 9:48 PM

Global synopsis. (image/jpeg)

March on Stacy Head's house Elizabeth Cook 2007-03-02 8:18 PM
Tell Stacy: time to come clean on the $$$$800,000 from real estate and home builder interests (text/plain)

INCREASED PERMIT FEES KILLING CULTURE OF SECOND LINES Sean Hobbs 2007-03-02 2:46 PM
After violence at Second Line Parades the police decide to raise the parade fees. Because the violence was unrelated to the parades the Second Line clubs ask why this unique cultural tradition should be taxed out of existence. (text/plain + 5 comments)

audio: Dr. Henri Roca, Integrated Medicine at LSU Medical Center Craig Kraemer with New Orleans PodCasting 2007-03-02 3:25 AM

House Passes Employee Free Choice Act SPFPA 2007-03-02 3:02 AM

After more than five hours of historic debate, the House of Representatives passed the most important labor law reform legislation in 70 years. (image/jpeg)

Bush asked to "refute" claim that housing project closures are "ethnic clea WSQT Guerrilla Radio 87.9 in DC 2007-03-02 12:20 AM
The March 1 issue of the Washington Post has asked in an editorial for George Bush to "speak from the bully pulpit on New Orleans reconstruction-and especially to talk people out of the idea that the housing project closures are for purposes of ethnic cleansing (text/plain)

House Committee Hearing on Insurance Claims post-K Christian Roselund 2007-03-01 7:57 PM
Audio from the February 28th US House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the insurance crisis in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. (audio/mpeg)

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