From medicmadness at riseup.net Sun Apr 4 14:03:11 2010 From: medicmadness at riseup.net (noah) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Srlcwelcomingcommittee] [Fwd: newest flyer that everyone else will hate] Message-ID: <188a6f4856b9858c8e75a7b4c42abe09.squirrel@swift.riseup.net> <3<3<3<3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: second line optimized.png Type: image/png Size: 506353 bytes Desc: not available URL: From medicmadness at riseup.net Tue Apr 6 08:59:23 2010 From: medicmadness at riseup.net (noah) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Srlcwelcomingcommittee] Press advisory for This Friday: Second Line for Healthcare and Education!] Message-ID: - Second Line for Healthcare & Education! Friday, April 9, 5:30 pm, Lafayette Square Park in New Orleans Please spread the word... re-mail & forward! More press = betterrrr There's going to be a big, crazy second line in the CBD on Friday: the Stooges Brass Band, the Free Agents Brass Band, and a level of ass-shaking the business district hasn't seen since the Second Line to Reopen Charity. We're going to party and rage down Poydras, and we're going to show the boy prince Bobby Jindal that the people of Louisiana have had it with his policies of privatization. The Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) takes place from April 8-11 in New Orleans, and is the largest gathering of Republican leadership short of the presidential convention. As Bobby Jindal is groomed for higher office, the Second Line for Healthcare & Education is our opportunity to present a unified response to Jindal's assault on Lousiana's state hospital system & public education. Join the SRLC Welcoming Committee, some of New Orleans' finest brass bands and a whole lot of pissed-off, high-stepping citizenry on Friday, April 9, as we let the SRLC know what we think of Jindal's efforts to dismantle public education, healthcare, and other Louisiana public services. Under the bright lights, let's give Jindal and all his GOP cronies-- Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum et al.-- the big loud New Orleans welcome they deserve. Our message is clear: Stop gutting our public schools and universities, stop destroying access to health care, re-open Charity Hospital! The SRLC Welcoming Committee is a broad coalition of local educators, healthcare workers, students and other Louisianians, as well as members of the Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital, Save UNO, the Iron Rail Collective, Pax Christi, and many others. - Meet at 5:30 pm - Step-off at 6:00 pm Route (0.4 miles): - Start at Lafayette Square Park at St. Charles Ave. and Lafayette - March down Camp St. to Poydras St. - March down Poydras to the Hilton Riverside Hotel This is a legal, permitted march. Latest info at http://southernpeople.wordpress.com Our Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106484989383993 Tweet us! >> http://bit.ly/uheardme Background: Last year Jindal shut down the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, the ONLY public mental health hospital in the metro area. He refuses to rebuild and reopen New Orleans' Rev. Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital, and now the Earl K. Long Charity Hospital in Baton Rouge is being squeezed dry and shuttered up. Both non-profit and for-profit hospitals in Louisiana are bleeding red ink. Healthcare in New Orleans and Louisiana is in crisis! On the education front, the University of New Orleans, already reeling from millions in cuts, already eliminating core departments, has had more than $13 million in further cuts since the beginning of the academic year. UNO is being destroyed. At the beginning of the academic year in August 2009, Delgado Community College had to turn away 1500 applicants because of insufficient building space. It's almost five years after Katrina & the failure of the federal levees, and the campus remains severely crippled. At Southern University at New Orleans, the majority of students and faculty still attend classes in trailers. SUNO has experienced no real recovery whatsoever. All of this is unacceptable, and the blame rests on Jindal. >From an article in the March 28th Times-Picayune, "Jindal moves to privatize many services" ( http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1269757842162310.xml&coll=1 ) "Overall, Jindal's $24.2 billion budget proposal calls for eliminating nearly 3,000 state jobs in the 2010-11 fiscal year that begins July 1." " In Baton Rouge, an estimated 500 civil servants who now work at Earl K. Long doing everything from nursing to administration will be displaced when that facility closes. " "Similarly, the civil servants who make up a significant chunk of the 2,300-person workforce at the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans will no longer be state employees..." "...the administration is proposing what officials say are the biggest changes to the state's mental-health system in generations. The Department of Health and Hospitals is planning to discharge 118 people from state-run psychiatric hospitals... while another 138 institutional beds would be transferred to a private operator..." "Rep. Tom McVea, R-St. Francisville, said the downsizing at East Louisiana State Hospital -- a state-run psychiatric hospital in his district -- will have lasting effects on his rural community as up to 300 state jobs are lost." * Common Ground Health Clinic 1400 Teche St, New Orleans, LA 70114 (504) 361-9800 email: healthalgiers at yahoo.com www.cghc.org _____________________________________________ email: healthalgiers at yahoo.com www.cghc.org _____________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From famousaimless at gmail.com Thu Apr 15 12:51:27 2010 From: famousaimless at gmail.com (Amy Marlow) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:51:27 -0500 Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] The Dirty Truth About Mountaintop Removal! Thursday and Friday! Message-ID: Ok, real quick: Mountaintop Removal is an outrageously destructive method of mining coal, that is practiced by some of the most greedy, ruthless, soul-less corporations that would put King Midas to shame and make Hannibal Lecter look warm and fuzzy. MTR first clear cuts all of the trees (which exacerbates flooding), then blows the up mountains in order to extract the coal, and pushes the remaining rock and debris into neighboring valleys, burying streams, and potentially rolling a boulder onto someone's house - it happens! The coal companies have an icy death grip on Appalachian communities that even Joseph Stalin would find reprehensible. There is no alternative source of income because everything else has been driven out, so folks are faced with the choice of risking their lives while destroying the beautiful mountains they call home in order to put food on the table, or leave. The folks that live in towns that the coal companies are buying up in order to get at the coal underneath don't even have that choice, their homes are being snatched out from underneath. And then you have coal slurry, the toxic sludge that is produced when coal is "cleaned" and processed, which is then either pumped into abandoned underground mines, where it leaks straight into the groundwater, or collected in enormous (up to 7 billion gallons!) impoundments that often loom over homes and schools, and guess what, they burst.... often. This is just the tip of the iceberg y'all! Come learn more about MTR and how folks are resisting! The organizations involved: *-Climate Ground Zero is not another environmental organization. It is an ongoing campaign of non-violent civil disobedience in southern West Virginia to address mountaintop removal coal mining and its effects on our future. *CGZ is based out of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, just minutes down the road from the horrific explosion that resulted in the deaths of 29 miners last week. http://climategroundzero.net/ -Featuring one of the breathtaking "True Cost of Coal" banners produced by the Beehive Collective, who uses large intricate murals as a method of educating folks and spreading the word about some of the fucked up shit/social injustices if you want to be polite about it, that go on in this world that we live in. Their graphics, while visually complex and full of hidden detail, create a narrative that deconstructs complex and confusing issues, making the story accessible to even folks who aren't able to read or have no prior information on the subject. http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From srlcwelcoming at hotmail.com Fri Apr 16 05:49:41 2010 From: srlcwelcoming at hotmail.com (jj jenkins) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:49:41 +0000 Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Reminder Message-ID: Hey folx your friendly welcoming committee reminding y'all about the general assembly being held Saturday April 17th at 3pm. This assembly will be at the Iron Rail Bookstore at 511 Marigny st. This assembly will allow us to come together and share ideas about how to grow our capacity and keep the momentum going. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From howellnow at bellsouth.net Wed Apr 28 18:31:19 2010 From: howellnow at bellsouth.net (howellnow) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice Message-ID: <922067.41068.qm@web180205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> --- On Wed, 4/28/10, howellnow wrote: From: howellnow Subject: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs,Housing, & Justice To: nola_c3_discussion at yahoogroups.com, noheat at lists.riseup.net, nocaw at googlegroups.com, cjmarsh26 at yahoo.com, kawanajasper at ymail.com, acollopy at tulane.edu, aiglefort at hotmail.com, alexglustrom at gmail.com, aw2333 at hotmail.com, benhgordon at yahoo.com, bradott at bellsouth.net, boobooufcw at hotmail.com, clday at uno.edu, davidcapasso.attorney at yahoo.com, michelle.s.perez at gmail.com, markwilson0224 at att.net, "ccandy at uno.edu" , deverard at bellsouth.net, denbenphu at gmail.com, ptroyono at cox.net, "Eileen P. Comiskey" , eli.ackerman at gmail.com, "ggordil at yahoo.com" , gloverbrownfam at hotmail.com Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 8:07 PM Make MAY DAY 2010 Our Day ? ATTENTION U.S. GOVERNMENT: NOW BAIL OUT THE REST OF US !!! ? ?Since September 2008 the U.S. government has poured $4.6 trillion of taxpayer money into the private economy to keep America ?s largest banks and other large businesses afloat. This government bailout has fueled a stock market boom and a surge in banking profits alongside a spike in unemployment, mortgage foreclo-sures, and homelessness. Washington and Baton Rouge are attempting to shrink the huge deficit created by the Wall Street bailout by pursuing drastic cutbacks and wholesale privatization of public employment, housing, healthcare, and education. May Day 2010 is a springboard for building a working class alternative to the es-tablishment?s (non)solutions for the ongoing economic crisis. ? MAY DAY 2010 DEMANDS: ? ??????? Enact a WPA-style public works program ??????? Reopen Big Charity. Hands off the Charity public health system ??????? Repair & reopen all New Orleans public housing. Supply Section 8 vouchers to all 18,000 New Orleans homeless ??????? Restore 2008-2010 public education funding cuts ??????? Legalize and stop harassing all immigrants ??????? Enforce Section 3 local hiring ? Now Bail Out the Rest of Us MAY DAY ACTION ? Noon, Saturday, 5/1/2010 the 1100 Block of Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Bring friends, signs, chants, and spirit ? ? C3/Hands Off Iberville meets 7pm Thursdays in St. Jude?s Basin Street Hall. 410 Basin Street Info: call 504-587-0080. Vwqhb (diskP&JNO08-::CeMayDyFlyr410) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lerahallen at cox.net Thu Apr 29 21:40:01 2010 From: lerahallen at cox.net (Lerah Allen) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:40:01 -0500 Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice In-Reply-To: <922067.41068.qm@web180205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <922067.41068.qm@web180205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <9980C5A8-92AB-4210-8763-9F9BDC00E3EA@cox.net> I am sorry, but you chose the Last Saturday of the Jazz Fest and an election day. Are you nuts? From tulane.dave at gmail.com Thu Apr 29 21:54:29 2010 From: tulane.dave at gmail.com (Dave Bart) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:54:29 -0500 Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice In-Reply-To: <9980C5A8-92AB-4210-8763-9F9BDC00E3EA@cox.net> References: <922067.41068.qm@web180205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <9980C5A8-92AB-4210-8763-9F9BDC00E3EA@cox.net> Message-ID: Lerah has a point. This protest is well-intentioned, but I doubt it will get anyone's attention when all the TV cameras are at Jazz fest and the polling places. I think I'll sit this one out On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 23:40, Lerah Allen wrote: > I am sorry, but you chose the Last Saturday of the Jazz Fest and an > election day. Are you nuts? -- We're all in this together. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgullo at uno.edu Thu Apr 29 21:52:58 2010 From: cgullo at uno.edu (Courtney Tennie Gullo) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:52:58 -0500 Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice In-Reply-To: <9980C5A8-92AB-4210-8763-9F9BDC00E3EA@cox.net> References: <922067.41068.qm@web180205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, <9980C5A8-92AB-4210-8763-9F9BDC00E3EA@cox.net> Message-ID: <6FEC39CA46FC1349AA252EC8609BC5B9FE6544F8@MAIL23CLUSTER.uno.edu> exuse me? did i even email you anything? i have no idea who you are ________________________________________ From: Lerah Allen [lerahallen at cox.net] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:40 PM To: srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice I am sorry, but you chose the Last Saturday of the Jazz Fest and an election day. Are you nuts? From howellnow at bellsouth.net Fri Apr 30 02:56:28 2010 From: howellnow at bellsouth.net (howellnow) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice In-Reply-To: <6FEC39CA46FC1349AA252EC8609BC5B9FE6544F8@MAIL23CLUSTER.uno.edu> Message-ID: <337105.98186.qm@web180208.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Hi, ? ? I had received emails in the past from the srlcwelcoming committee in the past.? I did help build the Second Line for Education and Healthcare. ? ? Yes, I am aware that May Day this year coincides with the last Saturday of? Jazz Fest.? Still, I've lived in New Orleans through the past 26 Jazz Fests? in New Orleans and I know that many New Orleanians, in fact most, won't be going to the festival.? This might have something to do with the daily fee, this year its $60, to attend the event.?I suspect most, if not all, of the homeless people in the vicinity of the New Orleans Mission who have expressed support for the May Day action won't be able ?to afford the entrance fee to the Jazz and Heritage Festival. ?It's worth noting that those who want to attend both the May Day Action and Jazz Fest will have plenty of? time to do both.? The May Day Action on Oretha Castle Haley should be finished by 1pm.? ? ????? Saturday is the international day of the working class.? It's been the international day of the working class for 110 years.??New Orleans is one of the cities where workers participated in the original May Day working class mobilzation.? And the working class of New Orleans needs to mobilize if the rampant class and ethnic cleansing now underway is to be brought to a halt.So,? May Day seems to me to be a good day to attempt such a mobilization, even on a Jazz Fest Saturday. ? Mike Howells, C3/Hands Off Iberville --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Courtney Tennie Gullo wrote: From: Courtney Tennie Gullo Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice To: "srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca" Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 11:52 PM exuse me? did i even email you anything? i have no idea who you are ________________________________________ From: Lerah Allen [lerahallen at cox.net] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:40 PM To: srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing,? & Justice I am sorry, but you chose the Last Saturday of the Jazz Fest and an election day. Are you nuts? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tulane.dave at gmail.com Fri Apr 30 08:05:22 2010 From: tulane.dave at gmail.com (Dave Bart) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:05:22 -0500 Subject: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, Housing, & Justice In-Reply-To: <337105.98186.qm@web180208.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <6FEC39CA46FC1349AA252EC8609BC5B9FE6544F8@MAIL23CLUSTER.uno.edu> <337105.98186.qm@web180208.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Sorry for using the reply-to-all thing twice in one day. I promise I'll be brief. The problem is not the cost of tickets. Its the absence of the press. Walking around holding signs and chanting is great fun, I won't deny that. but if you want to change stuff, more people have to see your protest than just the protesters. And those cameras aren't going to be at the protest today-they're going to be focused on JazzFest, the oil slick off the coast, and the election. You need those cameras to be looking at you while you're protesting. Else, the folks at home watching TV news won't see you, which means they won't be calling their legislators outraged and demanding change, they won't be boycotting the corporate thugs, and they won't know who you are or where to go to find out how to join in on the next event. The media, as awful as it is, if the best tool we have to reach the people who don't just happen to be walking by at the moment we're doing our thing. Now if you wanna get creative in a way that might drag them cameras away from downtown long enough to get you on TV, maybe we can try to somehow incorporate the major events where the news is already, like that oil slick. Stage a protest by the port against British Petroleum and compare this to thee Exxon Valdez, and maybe the cameras will pay attention to the growing civil unrest created by this disaster. Or somehow incorporate the election into it, or JF itself-the corporations fiddle while the Louisiana Gulf Coast burns, that kinda thing. That way its current and relevant to what's happening right now in new Orleans. The press might decide this is a news item worth covering. That said, I do appreciate what the Second Line is doing. Dave On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:56, howellnow wrote: > Hi, > > I had received emails in the past from the srlcwelcoming committee in the > past. I did help build the Second Line for Education and Healthcare. > > Yes, I am aware that May Day this year coincides with the last Saturday > of Jazz Fest. Still, I've lived in New Orleans through the past 26 Jazz > Fests in New Orleans and I know that many New Orleanians, in fact most, > won't be going to the festival. This might have something to do with the > daily fee, this year its $60, to attend the event. I suspect most, if not > all, of the homeless people in the vicinity of the New Orleans Mission who > have expressed support for the May Day action won't be able to afford the > entrance fee to the Jazz and Heritage Festival. It's worth noting that > those who want to attend both the May Day Action and Jazz Fest will have > plenty of time to do both. The May Day Action on Oretha Castle Haley > should be finished by 1pm. > > Saturday is the international day of the working class. It's been > the international day of the working class for 110 years. New Orleans is > one of the cities where workers participated in the original May Day working > class mobilzation. And the working class of New Orleans needs to mobilize > if the rampant class and ethnic cleansing now underway is to be brought to a > halt.So, May Day seems to me to be a good day to attempt such a > mobilization, even on a Jazz Fest Saturday. > > Mike Howells, C3/Hands Off Iberville > > --- On *Thu, 4/29/10, Courtney Tennie Gullo * wrote: > > > From: Courtney Tennie Gullo > > Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, > Housing, & Justice > To: "srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca" < > srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca> > Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 11:52 PM > > > exuse me? did i even email you anything? i have no idea who you are > > ________________________________________ > From: Lerah Allen [lerahallen at cox.net > ] > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:40 PM > To: srlcwelcomingcommittee at lists.resist.ca > Subject: Re: [NOLAwelcomingcommittee] Fw: [noheat] N.O. May Day:Jobs, > Housing, & Justice > > I am sorry, but you chose the Last Saturday of the Jazz Fest and an > election day. Are you nuts? > > -- We're all in this together. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: