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Five bailout lessons from Katrina
December 26, 2008
Year end bonuses continue while foreclosures increase? The needs of the poor must take priority over the wants of the rich.
‘If it moved, you shot it’: Investigation uncovers vigilante shootings of Blacks in New Orleans
December 18, 2008
In an 18-month investigation, A.C. Thompson weaves together stories of both innocent victims and unrepentant vigilantes, painting a terrifying and never before told picture of a hidden race war in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina.
Three years and 69 days: Obama’s victory as seen from New Orleans
November 29, 2008
Three years and 69 days was a lifetime ago in political terms. There are still many Americans living today who grew up in an apartheid America where the concept of even allowing Blacks to vote in many states and counties was considered impossible.
‘This is criminal’
November 23, 2008
This story, dictated by Malik Rahim to the Bay View two days after Katrina, was the call heard round the world that Black and poor New Orleanians were being abandoned in nothing less than attempted genocide and volunteers were needed. Now Malik is in a winnable race for Congress Dec. 6. Go Malik!
Malik Rahim for Congress Dec. 6!
November 22, 2008
Malik Rahim has spoken out with courage, asked the difficult questions and built viable community alternatives. He is a strong organizer who acted while the politicians waited. Now he wants to take his courage to Congress.
Wanda’s Picks for Nov. 7
November 7, 2008
I think I’m still in shock. Imagine, 200 years after chattel slavery was legally abolished in the United States, we have a Black man elected to this nation’s highest office: Barack Hussein Obama, president elect, this nation’s 44th president as of Jan. 20, 2009.
Displaced poor still arriving in New Orleans as Saints go marching in
October 24, 2008
Tears dripped down her face as she searched for her missing suitcase in the busy New Orleans bus station. “It had my ID, my children’s birth certificates, my money and my credit cards,” she softly cried. It was one week after she was bused out of New Orleans to a military base in Arkansas. She was supposed to be at work.
Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans three years later
August 24, 2008
Zero apartments currently being built to replace the 963 public housing apartments formerly occupied and now demolished at the St. Bernard Housing Development. 2.6 billion FEMA dollars for Katrina damages that have not yet been delivered. Renowned people’s attorney Bill Quigley has compiled a shocking “pain index” caused by the continuing ethnic cleansing of New Orleans.
A spork in the road
August 10, 2008
At the press conference held by Rethink: Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, 19 middle school Rethinkers rolled out a riveting multi-media presentation describing who they are, what they have learned and their 12 recommendations for ALL public schools in New Orleans.
No blood for oil! No blood for natural gas!
June 6, 2008
The current plan to launch yet another environmental assault on Bayview Hunters Point, with three natural gas turbine combustion power plants, and yet another at the San Francisco International Airport, was tabled for two weeks by the Board of Supervisors.
In the war of the super-rich on the rest of us … in San Francisco, as in New Orleans
May 19, 2006
Many of us see, within the Bayview Hunters Point district and without, strategic similarities in the wars being waged in Iraq, in New Orleans and here in our own home town.