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Friday, December 31, 2010

Parody Music Video by Local Artists is International Hit

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2-Cent Entertainment , a local collective of young Black media makers , are known for both entertaining and inciting . They have worked wi...
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Georgia Prison System Retaliates Against Prisoners Involved in Historic Protest

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From Our Friends at the US Human Rights Network and the Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners’ Rights : The Concerned Coalition to Respe...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire – What Does It Say About US?

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By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were “trying to stay warm,” perished in a raging fire during the night in N...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Did the Media Fail to Report What They Knew About Police Violence After Katrina?

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On December 10, journalist AC Thompson wrote : Nobody within the New Orleans Police Department ever tried to bring Warren, McRae and the res...
Monday, December 20, 2010

State of Louisiana Attempts to Deny Legal Birth Cerificate to Child Adopted by Gay Couple

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From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana : Today the American Civil Liberties Union filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal a...
Friday, December 17, 2010

US Government Announces Qualified Support for UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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This news release, below, comes from the International Indian Treaty Council : The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) welcomed the...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

One Hundred Haitian Immigrants Moved to Louisiana Prisons are Facing Immediate Deportation

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We have recently heard from the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) that 100 Haitians facing deportation have been moved to prisons in...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Activists Across US Protest Red Cross in Haiti Solidarity Action

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This Saturday, December 18th, activists in more than ten cities across the US will make a coordinated and simultaneous public stand in soli...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Glover Trial: The Jury's Still Out

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By David Soublet Although a verdict was announced on December 9 in the Henry Glover case, whether justice has been served is still debatable...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Excluded Workers Unite to Expand the Human Right to Organize

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From our friends and allies at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference , which starts today in Birmingham, Alabama: Excluded Workers...

Three Officers Convicted in Henry Glover Killing And Cover-Up But Those Who Planned the Cover-Up Go Free

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As verdicts were read yesterday in the first major trial involving the killings carried out by New Orleans police officers post-Katrina, re...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

An Immoral Experiment? Louisiana-Style Education Reform and the Value of our Children

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By Shaena Johnson, with Titus Lin Jonathan Swift, a member of the British literary canon, wrote A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Chil...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

New Orleans Youth Join National Day of Action

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From our friends at the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association : Today, two local non-profit organizations, the Vietnamese American...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Birthplace of Jazz, Graveyard of New Orleans Public Housing?

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Return to Iberville By JAY ARENA George W. Bush’s bulldozing of 5,000 badly needed and little damaged public housing apartments in post-Katr...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Leah Chase, Civil Rights Leader, To Receive Award from ACLU of Louisiana

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From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana : Leah Chase, restauranteur and stalwart of the civil rights movement in Louisiana, will be prese...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Angola Project Presents Art, Prerformance and Symposium

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From our friends at Resurrection after Exoneration : The Angola Project Produced by the Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation and...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Louisiana Justice Institute Joins Observation of Haiti Elections

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Summary of Election Day - 11/28/10 23:14EST Louisiana Justice Institute Observer Group Jacmel, Haiti Despite the calm, peaceful and relat...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Former Jena 6 Defendants Play in Bayou Classic

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From the Friends of Justice Blog : When the Grambling Tigers and the Southern Jaguars meet today in the New Orleans Superdome to play in the...
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