Monday, October 8, 2012

Students at Walter L. Cohen High School Walk Out to Protest Firings of Teachers

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From a press release from students and their allies at Walter L. Cohen High School: See below for the students' demands - written b...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Obama, Romney, and Race(less De)Baiting
, By Rosana Cruz

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Reprinted from the Bridge The Gulf blog: While Romney and Obama dance around race, the Gulf Coast continues to suffer devastating ra...

Jasmine Groves Invites Community to Memorial For Victims of Police Violence

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This letter from Jasime Groves comes via the New Orleans Independent Police Monitor : From Tragedy to Triumph: Advocating for your famil...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Among Contributors To New CD Raising Awareness of Extrajudical Killings of Black People in US

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From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement : In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hour...

Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Election is Not About, By Bill Quigley

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Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

‘We All Count’ Campaign To Combat Historic Levels of Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement

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From a press release from Project South : More than 30 million people will be discouraged or prevented from voting in this election. “Th...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City of New Orleans

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From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA : On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging win...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link New Orleans And Haiti

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This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds : The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And H...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Mayor and Police Chief Still Silent in Response to NYPD spying in New Orleans

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This article originally appeared in Louisiana Weekly . Editor’s Note: Documents recently uncovered by Associated Press reveal that the ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Seven Years After Katrina, A Divided City, By Jordan Flaherty

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A version of this article originally appeared on TruthOut.org .   Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a nati...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After, By Bill Quigley and Davida Finger

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1          Rank of New Orleans in fastest growing US cities between 2010 and 2011.  Source: Census Bureau. 1          Rank of New Orle...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Is It Time For The Bounce Vote?

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New Orleans hip-hop artist Tenth Ward Buck , a legendary New Orleans bounce music artist, announced today that he has qualified for a spo...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Unprecedented, Massive Cuts Devastate University of New Orleans

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While barely covered in the local media, the University of New Orleans is facing another round of brutal and devastating cuts, quickly t...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Coalition of Black and Latina Women, Women from Arizona, Demand Sheriff Stop Submitting to Immigration Hold Requests

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From our friends at the Congress of Day Laborers : A delegation of undocumented women from Arizona will join local immigrants and civil...
Monday, August 6, 2012

New Policy at Charter School in Delhi Louisiana Forces Out Students Suspected of Pregnancy

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NOTE: See below for update. From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana : The ACLU issued a letter today to the administration at Delhi...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute Concludes This Weekend With Festival of Performance

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Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes . This summer's theme is ce...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE

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After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams wa...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as Creating Excellent School Systems, by Dr. Lance Hill

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Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog : Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exi...