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Brazil: Henrique Meirelles faces the tornado at CBB. Pedro A. Xavier 2007-02-09 1:27 PM
Lula prefers that Meirelles stays but syntonized with him. The PT prefers to see Meirelles out. In the absence of Palocci, he guaranteed the depressive growth of the economy in the the last four years. (text/plain)

audio: Arthur Hardy, New Orleans Mardi Gras authority talks about Mardi Gras 2007 Craig Kraemer 2007-02-09 11:56 AM

Freedom of the Press Journalist Josh Wolf Now Hold Record Jail Time 4 Rights BBC 2007-02-09 8:45 AM
Although Californian laws protect journalists from revealing material, prosecutors successfully argued federal money helped pay for the police car, thus making it a federal case. (text/plain)

Juanita Tyler: ‘They Beat Gary So Bad’ Bob Herbert 2007-02-08 1:52 PM
The Tylers are black. In 1974, when Gary was 16, he was accused of murdering a 13-year-old white boy outside the high school that they attended in nearby Destrehan. The boy was shot to death in the midst of turmoil over school integration, which the local whites were resisting violently. (text/plain)

David Simon: “We’re Headed Towards Separate Americas!” William Hughes 2007-02-08 12:58 PM

The award-winning author of the acclaimed HBO program, “The Wire,” painted a grim picture of this country. David Simon said: “We’re headed [towards] separate Americas.” Speaking at Loyola College, in Baltimore, MD, on Feb. 6, 2007, he said that “unencumbered Capitalism has become our God.” In our greedy society, Simon underscored: “Human are worth less, not more: less.” He said America is going to be a “more brutish, cynical and divided place.” (image/jpeg)

Carta de las Visitadoras al comisario Maigret Carlos Ortiz de Zárate 2007-02-08 12:57 PM
Las Visitadoras de Vargas Llosa explican al comisario Maigret que el pasado de las mismas acredita la competencia de éstas para lograr avances en las estrategias del grupo que coordina la señora Maigret para combatir la conspiración de los medios de comunicación para trastocar los conceptos de “ciudadano”, de “Estado Nación” y de organización multilateral en la actualidad. (text/html)

Paranoid shift - Informative & Interesting Michael Hasty 2007-02-07 5:39 PM
Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had come to realize that they were never really interested in American ideals of "freedom" and "democracy." They really only wanted "absolute power." (text/plain)

Sign Petition in Support of Gary Tyler David 2007-02-07 3:07 PM
Bob Herbert's third column about Gary Tyler is scheduled to appear in Thursday's New York Times. Once it's been published, it will be added it to www.freegarytyler.com, alongside the first two columns from Mr.Herbert. An on-line petition has been just added to the site earlier today. Please take a minute and sign it <http://www.freegarytyler.com/petition.php> (text/plain)

Feb. 7th; International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti! US/UN Occupation Out of Haiti! 2007-02-07 12:24 PM
Summary of solidarity actions for campaign against the US/UN occupation of Haiti.. (text/plain)

World's sea levels rising at accelerating rate James Randerson/Ivan Sample/Ed Ward, MD 2007-02-06 12:45 PM
A rise of close to 1m would threaten huge areas of low lying coastal land, as well as major cities such as London, New York and Tokyo. (and New Orleans, Miami) (text/plain + 1 comment)

Challenge to Investigative Journalists. By Tiberius Tanker 2007-02-05 8:12 PM
The American public needs to see a lot more actual analysis of the Iraqi Constitution that the U.S. has attempted to dictate to the Iraqi people. Why has such an analysis been hid from us? Would it expose too much of U.S. government’s real intentions? This should be the focus of Washington’s legislative debate about supporting Iraq? (text/plain)

A Death in Destrehan: Gary Tyler's Story Bob Herbert 2007-02-05 5:30 PM
On the afternoon of Oct. 7, 1974, a mob of 200 enraged whites, many of them students, closed in on a bus filled with black students that was trying to pull away from the local high school. The people in the mob were in a high-pitched frenzy. They screamed racial epithets and bombarded the bus with rocks and bottles. The students on the bus were terrified. (text/plain)

More audio from February 1 HANO meeting Christian Roselund 2007-02-05 12:52 PM
Additional audio from the February 1st HANO meeting in the Fisher Development. (audio/mpeg)

Filmscreening about Oaxaca popular uprising maldeojo 2007-02-05 11:06 AM
Join filmmakers from Oaxaca Mexico for an evening of short excerpts from new documentary films by video collectives covering the multiple stories which will forever mark 2006 as a milestone year for the Latin American left. Tuesday Feb 6 21:30hrs. Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center (text/plain)

BTL:April 14 Day of Action on Global Warming Will Demand Mandatory Cuts in... Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2007-02-04 4:48 PM
...Carbon Emissions~Interview with Bill McKibben, author and environmentalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

SWAT Team Arrests MayDay NOLA Occupiers and Public Housing Resident Council Representative Common Ground Media 2007-02-03 5:58 PM
Two housing activists arrested at St Bernard Housing Development (text/plain)

Residents and Activists speak out at HANO consultation meeting Common Ground Media 2007-02-03 5:52 PM
Read HANO's plans for demolishing the St. Bernard projects, and hear rebuttals made at the consultation meeting. (application/pdf)

Building Bridges Radio: Law Students Work To Aid Gulf Coast Residents! Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash 2007-02-03 3:46 PM
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW (text/plain)

Walk for Obama - Spring 2008 - March Begins in New Orleans Michael A. Collins 2007-02-03 1:32 PM
Walk for Obama - Spring 2008 - March Begins in New Orleans (text/plain)

BTL:Libby Trial Window Into White House Iraq War Attack Machine Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2007-02-03 10:28 AM
Interview with investigative journalist Robert Parry, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

audio: Carlton Dufrechou - Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation Craig Kraemer 2007-02-03 9:33 AM

Hillary and the Politics of Children Dr. Stephen Baskerville 2007-02-03 12:04 AM
Feminist-influenced legal practitioners now openly advocate that traditional parental authority be replaced by bureaucrats: “For those who would like to have the State use its power and resources to improve the lives of children, parental rights constitute the greatest legal obstacle to government intervention to protect children from harmful parenting practices and to state efforts to assume greater authority over the care and education of children.” (text/plain)

BTL:Massive Antiwar Protest Underscores Movement's New Power Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2007-02-02 10:34 AM
Report on antiwar protest in Washington, D.C. produced by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Democrats Embrace Republican's Iraq Resolution (SOS - Same Ole S...) Bill Auken 2007-02-02 8:16 AM
With their endorsement Wednesday of a Republican-drafted resolution pledging to continue funding for the Iraq war, Congressional Democratic leaders have exposed their supposed opposition to the Bush administration’s troop “surge” as a rebellion on their knees. (Or, more correctly, just alot of elitist BS.) (text/plain)

Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind Catherine Brahic 2007-02-02 7:07 AM
The IPCC report says the rise in global temperatures could be as high as 6.4°C by 2100. The report also predicts sea level rises and increases in hurricanes. It is the work of 1200 climate experts from 40 countries, who have spent six years reviewing all the available climate research. It was released in Paris, France, on Friday (read the 21-page summary here, though the IPCC server may be struggling due to high demand). Listen to audio from today's press conference. (text/plain)

Rebuilding at Home, Not War Abroad Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-01 10:05 PM

for immediate release (image/jpeg)

Common Ground Emergency Shelter Up and Running in 7th Ward Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-01 9:07 PM
Common Ground provides emergency housing for New Orleans residents still displaced seventeen months after Katrina (text/plain)

The Kid Camera Project: New Orleans Seen Through the Eyes of its Youth Zeph Fishlyn 2007-02-01 8:58 PM

Nobody knows a city better than its own residents, and the Kid Camera Project puts photography in the hands of the most fragile and impressionable of those residents: youth. (image/jpeg)

CP (MLM) to Expel Chairman CP (MLM) 2007-02-01 7:32 PM

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Public Housing Residents to Hold Press Conference Prior to HANO Meeting Curtis Rumrill 2007-02-01 6:47 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - PHOTO OPPOTUNITY (text/plain)

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