Monday, December 24, 2012

Our People Are Worth the Risks: A Southern Queer Agenda from the Margins and the Red States, By Southerners On New Ground (SONG)

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Reprinted from the SONG website and from the  Scholar & Feminist Online, a webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on ...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Post-Katrina, Funders and Foundations Failed New Orleans

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In December of 2006, New Orleans' social justice community came together to draft a letter addressed to foundations and funders, in res...

Remember All the Children, Mr. President, By Bill Quigley

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Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardment...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Crime Against Nature Law Back in Court

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From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights : Fill the Court For Oral Arguments In the Case To Overtur...
Monday, December 3, 2012

"I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derrick Jamison

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From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration : “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and...

Documentary Planned on United Houma Nation's "Indian Santa," By Adam Crepelle

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Reposted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf : Indian Santa is a short documentary about, as the name suggests, Indian Santa. The trad...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Hundreds in New Orleans Protest Israeli Killings in Gaza

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In one of the larger protests New Orleans has seen in recent years, nearly two hundred demonstrators marched through New Orleans' Fre...
Monday, November 19, 2012

African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa Statement Regarding the Aggression Against Gaza

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The initial signers of this petition include former People's Hurricane Relief Fund director Kali Akuno , and writer and scholar Robi...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Food Justice Event This Thursday in New Orleans

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From our friends at Survivors Village and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement : Join Survivors Village , the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement , ...
Monday, November 5, 2012

New Orleans City Council Candidate Launches Anti-Obama Attack

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District B City Council candidate Eric Strachan sent out a mailer this week attacking one of his opponents for supporting Barack Obama . ...
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Want to Help People Recovering From Hurricane Sandy? Don't Give to the Red Cross

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In response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to donate , we are publishing below edited excerpts from articl...

New Series of Short Videos on Al Jazeera Highlight Election Issues

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Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news channel available in more than 250 million households in over 130 countries. They have 65 bureaus ac...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

"Bounce Nation" Holds Protest at Local Radio Station, Station Management Threatens Arrest

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Reposted from the Alliance Institute : Supporters of bounce music culture rallied on Oct. 18th in front of 201 St. Charles, home of C...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Librotraficantes Mark Opening of New Latino Cultural Space in Central City

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From a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes : Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa Borr...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Inmates at Angola Prison Complain of Excessive, Unrestrained, Frequent and Unjustified Use of Chemical Agents on Prisoners

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From a letter sent today by the ACLU of Louisiana : October 25, 2012 Dear Warden Cain : In the past few months, the ACLU of Louisia...
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Reflections on the Protest at Walter L. Cohen High School, By Parnell Herbert

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While in Houston TX. to attend a convention on reparations I began receiving phone calls, text and email messages describing a situatio...