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  • The Battle for New Orleans : Only a Real Movement Can Win This War
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
    New Orleans represents a challenge to African Americans, unprecedented since the epic struggles of the Fifties and Sixties. The perverse reality, to which African Americans must rise, is that the man-made disaster in the Gulf provides what may be the last chance to build a real Movement, encompassing the broadest sectors of Black America. Cruel history presents the catastrophe as an unwanted opportunity, a test of Black people’s capacity for the operational (…)

  • Katrina Survivors Storm Capitol
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I can’t believe that some people in Washington think that after a category 5 hurricane the solution is to unleash a category 5 assault on working families.” That was the sentiment of Hurricane Katrina survivors, brought to Washington to draw attention to mounting needs that continue to go unanswered. Campaign for America’s Future sponsored the visit of several survivors who met today with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
    The (…)

  • The world watches as the US attempts its restoration
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Walt
    Americans normally shrug off newspaper headlines overseas, unconcerned by what the rest of the world thinks of us. But the events of recent months have turned a not-so-flattering mirror back upon the US, forcing us to think seriously about what it is the rest of the world is seeing.
    The hurricanes that struck America’s Gulf coast this autumn were just the beginning of a series of storms - both physical and political - that have done significant damage to the already (…)

  • Who Controls the Weather?
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Theories about Russian agents steering Hurricane Katrina may be off base, but research into weather manipulation has been going on for decades
    Pssst. Have you heard? Hurricane Katrina was intentionally steered to hit New Orleans. The Russians — a clique of KGB secret-police hardliners who took over a secret weather-control weapon developed for the old Soviet military — did it. In fact, according to retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bearden, they’ve been dickering with U.S. weather (…)

  • New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again!
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BILL QUIGLEY
    They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left (…)

  • Levee Breaks, 9-11 Part of Govt. Plot, Farrakhan Implies
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CNSNews.com) - Forty-eight hours before the Louis Farrakhan-led march of African Americans through the streets of Washington, D.C., the controversial minister Thursday repeated his charge that levees in New Orleans were intentionally blown up on Aug. 29, following Hurricane Katrina. He also implied that the Bush administration may have orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.
    Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and his followers on Saturday will commemorate (…)

  • We Are All Chemically Contaminated
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By André Cicolella
    July 22, 1719, the ship Grand-Saint-Antoine left Marseille for the calls of the Levant (as they were described at the time). In Syria, the ship took on a Turkish passenger who died two days later, a victim of the plague that afflicted the region at that time. Eight sailors and the surgeon on board had died when the ship reached Livorno. Nonetheless, the Italian authorities allowed it to return to Marseille, where it arrived May 25, 1720.
    Capitan Jean-Baptiste (…)

  • Abuse, Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Robert Davis emerged from the temporary detention center in New Orleans, his eye was swollen nearly shut, his face was bruised, and he had a couple of stitches under his left eye. He told The NewStandard that police had beaten him and then charged him with public intoxication and battery, even though he had not had a drink in 25 years and had merely asked a police officer to leave him alone.
    The 64-year-old retired elementary school teacher sat sadly in a chair Sunday morning outside (…)

  • Greens Warn of Growing ’Iraqification’ of New Orleans
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Green Party leaders urged Congress and all Americans to reject the White House’s intention to turn New Orleans and all disaster areas into zones of military control, weakened human rights protections and oversight of federal agencies, and corporate profiteering similar to occupied Iraq.
    "The treatment of New Orleans’ poorest, especially African Americans, has already been widely reported and is now a national shame, as is the ineptitude of Mayor Nagin’s office, FEMA, and other (…)

  • Gentrification Sweeps Streets of New Orleans Rolling in Cop Cars
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point.
    All (…)