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Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl!

Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Start at Bayou Bicycles, 3530 Toulouse Street
Meet at 8:30 a.m., depart at 9:00 a.m.
(Festival starts at 11:00 a.m.)

1. Finn McCool's, 3701 Banks Street. The legendary giant named Fionn mac Cumhaill built a bridge out of huge stones across the water connecting Ireland and Scotland, and a remnant of the Giant's Causeway (40,000 interlocking basalt columns, some as tall as 36 feet) still stands in the County Antrim in Northern Ireland.  The Mid-City pub named after this mythical figure celebrated its three-year post-Katrina re-opening on St. Patrick's Day 2009, and it is the first stop on the Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl.

2. Mid-City Yacht Club, 440 S. St Patrick Street. This land-locked tavern takes its name from the high Katrina flood waters filling its immediate neighborhood.  The MCYC also derives its name from the fact that the New Basin Canal, a shipping channel that operated from the 1830's through the 1940's, ran one block from their establishment where the Pontchartrain Expressway now stands.  This bar is the proud steward of St. Patrick ball field and is the second stop on the Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl.

3. Evangeline Lounge, 4501 Toulouse Street. This off-the-beaten-path neighborhood joint gets its name from the 1847 poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about an Acadian girl searching for her lost love, Gabriel, set during the time of Le Grand Dérangement.  The Norfolk-Southern railroad tracks make this bar, the third stop on the Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl, most easily accessible from St. Patrick Street rather than Murat Street.

4. Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, 732 N. Broad Street. The headquarters for the notoriously raucous Mardi gras krewe that just celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009, this meeting place in 1998 was dedicated to the memory of James Russell, one of the organization's most influential presidents who's credited with holding things together when membership dipped to just sixteen people in the 1960's.  Now 650 people strong, this philanthropic krewe supports a local grade school (Morris F.X. Jeff Elementary, named after the 1972 King), sponsors an annual scholarship fund program, has helped rebuild a nearby playground and is actively raising funds for NORD, provides Christmas gift baskets and toys for needy families and is a strong supporter of New Orleans' annual "Night Out Against Crime".  This krewe, long famous for its "Golden Nugget", is now earning recognition for its gospel choir with numerous appearances at local events and a recently released CD.  Members of this benevolent society are making a special effort to open their club's doors to welcome revelers as the fifth stop on the Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl.

5. Roosevelt's Black Pearl, 1001 N. Claiborne Avenue. Serving hot plates to New Orleans residents since the 1960's, this Tremé hangout dispenses soul food and cold drinks from 8:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. every day but Wednesday.  The fifth stop on the Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl is only one block from Tuba Fats Square, a tribute to the legendary sousaphone innovator [9/15/1950-1/11/2004] who helped revive New Orleans' brass band tradition bringing it to international attention.

6. Parkway Bakery and Tavern, 538 Hagan Street. The final stop on the Bayou Boogaloo Bicycle Pub Crawl has been family owned and operated since 1912 when it was built as a neighborhood bakery.  As with other shops throughout the city, this bakery began serving Po'Boys during the depression era followed by a local street car conductor strike.  This business stopped baking its own bread in the 1970's after a devastating rainwater flood destroyed its ovens, but it continued to offer Po'Boys to employees of the American Can Company and other patrons for many years.  Economic forces caused the eatery to close for over two decades, but in its resurrected form it is now famous for its slow-cooked roast beef Po'Boy that appeals to a widely diverse clientele in a historic setting.

Bayou Bicycles, which has served Mid-City's bicycle community since 1988, is providing offsite bicycle parking for festival goers this year.  Look for the Specialized Bicycles event tent that marks the bicycle parking area, and step inside the shop for a cup of coffee if you'd like.  All pub crawlers get one water bottle while supplies last!

To get a rough head count, please contact Peter Hickman (preferably by e-mail) before 5/23/09:
Peter J. Hickman
Chair of the Mid-City Volleyball committee of the MotherShip Foundation
cell: (504)427-1207
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Congratulations to the Friends of Lafitte Corridor—a preservation project recognized by the Louisiana Landmarks Society's first

Special Achievement Award in the Field of Preservation Architecture! 

Please join our friends for their

Fifth Annual Hike of the Lafitte Corridor

This year's hikers will be joined by Rebecca Leonard and Kurt Culbertson

from Design Workshop, the firm recently awarded the greenway contract by the City of New Orleans.

on National Trails Day 

Saturday June 6^th

at

10:00 AM

The hike will begin at the front gate of Armstrong Park

and continue along the Lafitte Corridor (between Lafitte and Saint Louis Streets).

It is expected to cross Carrollton Avenue around noon,

stopping for lunch at Massey's Professional Outfitters

and will finish at Canal Boulevard around 1:30 PM.

For more information contact  Bart Everson, President, Friends of Lafitte Corridor, at b@... or 504-520-5164 (office) or 812-391-0818 (cell).

and help our friends celebrate the following good news:

State of Louisiana Approves $2.6 Million for Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans

BATON ROUGE, La. - The state of Louisiana has approved $2.6 million
for the Lafitte Corridor Revitalization Plan and Greenway Trail Design
and Construction project in the Treme and Mid-City neighborhoods,
allowing the New Orleans Office of Recovery and Development
Administration to access federal Community Development Block Grant
funds needed to implement the project.

The 3.1 mile greenway corridor stretching along a former shipping and
railroad canal will be anchored by a bicycle and pedestrian trail that
connects Armstrong Park with City Park via Bayou St. John and the
Wisner and Marconi bike routes. The greenway will provide open space
and recreational, educational and cultural features to enhance the
lifestyle and economic vigor of surrounding neighborhoods.

The funding comes from the Long Term Community Recovery Program, a
$700 million pool of federal CDBG money set aside by the Louisiana
Recovery Authority and Office of Community Development to help local
governments rebuild and implement long-term recovery plans.

Both the Treme and Mid-City neighborhoods were badly flooded by
Hurricane Katrina, leaving the area residents with blighted and unused
open spaces. The Lafitte Greenway project will provide an attractive
recreational and mixed-use corridor that will serve as an economic
development stimulus for the area, as well as meet alternative
transportation needs and offer some services and jobs.

The project costs nearly $3 million in total, and will include design
elements such as intersection improvements, landscaping, lighting,
signage and drainage, as well as an analysis of land use, neighborhood
access to the corridor, business clustering, economic incentives,
neighborhood stabilization and blight reduction.

In addition to $2.6 million in CDBG disaster recovery funds, another
$398,248 in state funds will be dedicated to the project from the
Louisiana Transportation Enhancements program and the Governor's
Recreational Trail program.

LRA Executive Director Paul Rainwater said, "This greenway project
will transform the inner city corridor from an industrial to a
mixed-use space that will improve the economy of the area and enhance
residents' quality of life. The investment of disaster recovery funds
into public green spaces with biking and hiking trails will help
stimulate additional recovery and rebuilding efforts in the heart of
the city."

New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin said, "The city of New Orleans seeks to
implement national best practices in our rebuilding efforts. Notably,
urban planners of today advocate mixed-use developments that
incorporate retail, residential and recreational spaces tailored to
meet the daily needs of residents. The Lafitte Greenway project
captures the essence of this approach."

The state's LTCR program supports implementation of local governments'
long-term recovery plans in the most heavily impacted communities in
the state. In 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development approved LRA's request to reallocate $500 million in CDBG
dollars to the program, bringing to $700 million the total amount of
long-term recovery funding available to the parishes. Funds are
distributed among the parishes through the LRA/Office of Community
Development according to a formula based on estimated housing and
infrastructure damages inflicted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

In total, the LRA has allocated $410,720,016 of CDBG funding to the
city of New Orleans for L TCR projects.

Created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in
2005, the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) is the coordinating and
planning body leading the most extensive rebuilding effort in American
history. The central point for hurricane recovery in Louisiana, the
LRA works closely with the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) and partners with state and federal
agencies to oversee more than $20 billion worth of programs, speed the
pace of rebuilding, remove hurdles and red tape and ensure that
Louisiana recovers safer and stronger than before.

1440 Moss Street

New Orleans, LA  70119

504-482-0312

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> N.O. needs jobs, housing schools
> & healthcare, not war.
> RALLY FOR PEACE
> THROUGH JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD!
>  
>
>      Just a few years
> after the architects of the official hurricane recovery
> effectively dismantled local public services the twin
> scourges of war and recession now menace New Orleanians.
> Orleans Parish unemployment has jumped from 4.4% in March
> 2008 to  7.3% in March 2009.  HUD has demolished  more than 4,000 units
of   New Orleans public housing since
> December 2007.  Post-Katrina
> “public” education in New Orleans continues to
> degenerate into a monstrosity ever more hostile to union
> friendly workers and working class children.  Meanwhile, Governor Bobby
Jindal
> is  pursuing the closure of   New Orleans Adolescent Hospital
> (NOAH) and a mass downsizing of 
> the staff of University Hospital .  Adding to the misery, President
> Barrack Obama is seeking $89 billion from Congress to help
> perpetuate the U.S. occupations of 
>  Afghanistan and Iraq . 
>
>        
> Averting yet another catastrophe in N.O. necessitates
> that people mobilize in the streets to demand that the
> satisfaction of  human need be
> put ahead of  the perpetuation
> of  corporate
> greed.
>
>  
> RALLY FOR PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE
> NOW!
> 3P.M. SATURDAY, June
> 6, 2009.
> Jackson
> Square in front of 
> the St. Louis Cathedral.
>
>  
> *Living Wage Federal
> Jobs For All Who Need Them*
> *Keep Noah
> Open/Renovate & Reopen Charity*
> *One for one
> replacement of all demolished public
> housing*
> *Restore union
> recognition for N.O. public teachers*
> * U.S. Troops Out
> Of   Iraq and Afghanistan
> *
>  *Immediate passage of 
> Employee Free Choice Act*
>
>  
> Sponsors:  C3/Hands Off Iberville, May Day New
> Orleans , Committee to Reopen Charity, First Unitarian
> Universalist Church , NOCAW,
> Women United For
> Social Justice.
> Meetings
> 7pm Thursdays in St. Jude’s Basin Hall at 410 Basin Street
> .  Information:
> 504-587-0080
>
>
>
>
>

Bill gives N.O. voters look at master plan

BATON ROUGE -- Without debate Monday, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that would give New Orleans voters the chance to approve or reject a master plan for post-Katrina development of the city.

Senate Bill 75 by Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans, now goes to the House for debate.

The bill cleared the Senate in less than a minute with Murray briefly explaining it and pointing out that it was a local bill affecting only Orleans Parish. The measure drew no questions and passed 35-0.

http://www.legis.louisiana.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=657278

When he handled the bill in committee, Murray said that if voters reject a master plan approved by the City Council, planners and elected officials would have to regroup and make changes until they win voter approval.

Murray's bill does not specify a date for the vote.

Existing law spells out the procedure for adopting the master plan by the City Council, and mandates at least one public hearing before the council votes on the plan. Murray's bill builds on that to require a public vote.

Murray also got the Senate to pass 36-0 his Senate Bill 256 to authorize the French Quarter-Marigny Management District to impose parcel fees ranging from $185 a year on residences to an amount equal to 2.5 mills of the assessed value of the property that would be placed on large commercial sites.

The money raised would pay for a small staff and for security in the area, Murray said.

Murray amended the bill to make it effective when Gov. Bobby Jindal signs it. He also changed it to give the agency the "power and authority" to write violations, such as for traffic tickets or minor crimes, if the City Council delegates that authority.

That bill also now heads to the House for debate.

. . . . . . .

Ed Anderson can be reached at eanderson@... or 225.342.5810.

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Press Release
Workers to Hold Rally for Housing and Jobs at Wednesday, July 15 HANO Board
Meeting
Workers Demand Enforcement of HUD Section 3 Guidelines Guaranteeing Jobs for Low
Income New Orleanians and for Defense of the Iberville Public Housing
Development

(New Orleans, La.).  Local low income workers will hold a press conference and
rally at 9:30 AM, Wednesday, July 15, as part of their continuing campaign to
force the Housing Authority of New Orleans, and the contractors they have hired,
including Columbia Residential and McCormack, Baron and Salazar, to abide by
provisions of section 3, of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968.
Section 3 requires that at least 30% of all HUD-funded construction jobs go to
local low income and public housing residents, that training be provided, and
that workers are paid prevailing wages. HANO, HUD and their private, for-profit
contractors are flagrantly violating all of these provisions in the
redevelopment they are carrying out at the former C.J. Peete and St Bernard
public housing developments.
On Tuesday, July 7, over 120 low income people applied for jobs as part of an
action called by C3/Hands Off Iberville and May Day New Orleans, to get local
low income workers jobs and to draw attention to the open violation of section 3
by HANO, HUD and their contractors. At the July 15, 2009 HANO board meeting,
workers will rally outside to demand that they get jobs through enforcement of
the section 3 provisions. This message will also be carried inside’s HANO’s
board room, where workers will address Diane Johnson, head of the agency’s
undemocratic, one person board.
C3/Hands Off Iberville and May Day New Orleans will also be delivering a clear
message that we oppose any move to reduce the number of public housing apartment
at the Iberville development. We call for repairing and renovating all the
apartments, and retaining them as public housing. We will also expose the
fraudulent “Iberville Advisory Committee”, recently formed by HANO lawyer
Wayne Woods, which is a thinly veiled attempt by the agency, and their developer
friends, to legitimate the destruction of the Iberville as public housing. The
committee excludes opponents of privatization, such as C3/Hands off Iberville,
while welcoming operatives from the Downtown Development District, long time
proponents of privatization.  Indeed, the DDDs CEO, Kurt Weigle, has
relentlessly pushed for Iberville’s destruction as a public housing
development.  Recently Weigle notoriously touted the elimination of Iberville as
public housing, and the expulsion of the low
  income black residents, as something that is “going to make people feel the
area is safer than it may be perceived to be today, and will make the area one
of the most attractive for the entire city," We repudiate this racist rant and
call for Weigle’s resignation.


Forwarded by:

Les Evenchick
New Orleans
                                                      piratefish@...

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http://www.fsjna.org/2009/08/you-are-invited/

To keep up with popular demand, we've published a video of Allison Plyer's 10-minute briefing on the status of our recovery:

From the Project 30-90 website

Project 30-90 is an environmentally conscious music festival being held in New Orleans on September 5, 2009.  Our stages will be run on solar and wind turbine power, we'll offer paperless green tickets, recycling, carbon offsets and more.  Put simply, we are going to rock your world and leave no carbon footprint behind.  So, do you believe in sustainability?
In green technology? In a double bottom line?  Cool.  So do we.  Explore our site and see what we're all about.

http://www.project3090.com/

The festival will take place in the 1400 block of Tchoupitoulas next to the former TwiRoPa music venue.

Charlie London

http://fsjna.org

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Sun. 10/18/09 ,
> 5:30 pm, In front of Loyola Univ.

Info supplied by Ben Gordon
>
>

Is anyone organizing a local demo? If not at least lets endorse the national
actions.    ---    Les


Planned Oct. 17 th. Peace Actions and Endorsers
Logan Martinez loganmartinez at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 8 16:33:42 EDT 2009

Planned Oct. 17 th. Peace Actions and Endorsers



"Cities that are currently confirmed as having an
event are: Boston (New England regional protest), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Minneapolis, Duluth, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albany,
NY, Lawrence, KS, Columbia, NC, Moline, IL." and Dayton, OH.
"Coalitions and groups in many other cities are having
discussions and starting the planning process." The website is www.october17.org
but it's not complete.





September 8, 2009



Endorsers To Date of a Call for an October 17 Day for

Local and Regional Antiwar Protests



[Note: Endorsing
organizations and coalitions will advance their own demands for these protests
based on their own platforms. Endorsement does not imply support for the
demands agreed to at the July 10-12 national conference in Pittsburgh or by any
coalition or network. The demands will be developed locally and regionally, and
will be decided upon by the endorser organizations and individuals and by the
coalitions
themselves.]




Action
Center for Justice (Charlotte, NC)
After
Downing Street
A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism)
Bail
Out the People Movement
Mark
A. Bailey, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Seminary Student
Bay
Area United Against War
Medea
Benjamin, cofounder, CODEPINK and Global Exchange
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace
Boston
Stop the Wars Coalition
Deb
Brave, Antiwar Activist, Mantua, Ohio
Bread
and Roses Forum of the Sisters of St. Joseph
Burnsville
and Eagan Peace Vigil (MN)
Central
Ohioans For Peace
CODE
PINK
Connecticut
Students Against the War
CT
United for Peace
Defenders
for Freedom, Justice and Equality (Richmond, VA)
Democratic
Socialists of Central Ohio
Donna
Dewitt, President, South Carolina AFL-CIO*
Duluth
Area Green Party
Duluth
Unitarian-Universalist Church Peace and Social Justice Committee
Faith
Communities Uniting for Peace (Columbus, OH)
Freedom
Road Socialist Organization
FreedomJournal.tv
Holly
Gigante, Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in the State of Ohio
Grand
Mamas for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Greater
Boston United for Justice with Peace Coalition
Green
Party of Ohio
Green
Party Peace Network
Growing
Communities for Peace
Guilderland
Neighbors for Peace
Monadel
Herzallah, President, Arab American Union Members Council*
Hudson
Valley Activist Newsletter
Interfaith
Council for Peace in the Middle East
International
Action Center
International
Socialist Organization (ISO)
Iraq
Moratorium
Iraq
Peace Action Coalition (Minneapolis)
Ron
Jacobs, writer
Kansas
City Labor Against the War
Lawrence
Coalition for Peace and Justice (KS)
Susan
Loonsk, Northland Center for Art and Ecopsychology
Lyndale
United Church of Christ (Mpls)
Maine
Independent Green Party
Mayday
Book Store (Minneapolis)
Middle
East Children’s Alliance
Minnesota
Cuba Committee
Paige
Makoons Miller, Indigenous Student Alliance
Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers
Mobilization
Against War and Occupation (MAWO)
Muslim
Solidarity Committee
National
Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations
New Abolitionist Movement
New
England United
New
Jersey Labor Against the War
New
York Labor Against War
Northeast
Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC)
Northeast
Peace and Justice Action Coalition (NEPAJAC)
Northern
California Committee of Correspondence for Socialism and Democracy
Northwest
Greens (Philadelphia)
Northwest
New Jersey Peace Fellowship
Ohio
State Labor Party
Ohio
Valley for Peace
Quad
Cities Progressive Action for the Common Good
Palestine
Task Force, Boston United for Justice with Peace
Peace
and Justice Committee, Sacred Heart Church (South St. Paul MN)
Peace
and Social Progress Now, New Paltz, NY
Peninsula
Peace and Justice Center (Palo Alto, CA)
People
for Peace and Justice of Utah
Philly
Against War
Progressive
Democrats of America
Progressive
Peace Coalition (Central Ohio)
Grace
Reese, Faith Communities Uniting for Peace, Columbus, Ohio*
Rhode
Island Chapter of Progressive Democrats of America
Rhode
Island Mobilization Committee to Stop War and Occupation
Richard
Wright Centennial
Saint
Paul Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
San
Jose Peace and Justice Center
Saratoga
Peace Alliance
Michael
L. Schwartz, Author “War Without End: The Iraq War in Context;” Member,
U.S. Labor Against the War*
Seattle
Anti-Imperialist Committee (SAIU)
Jo
Sippie-Gora, Chair, Seeds of Peace Committee of the Morristown (NJ)
Unitarian Fellowship*
Cindy
Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Socialist
Action
Socialist
Action,/Ligue pour l’Action socialiste
Socialist
Alternative
Socialist
Caucus of the New Democratic Party of Canada
Socialist
Organizer
Socialist
Party of CT
Socialist
Party of Massachusetts
Socialist
Viewpoint
Solidarity
Solidarity
Committee of the Capital District
South
Carolina Progressive Network
St.
Joan of Arc Peacemakers (Mpls)
St.
Louis 9/11 Questions Meetup Group
Students
for Peace, Duluth Chapter
Stop
War on Iran Campaign
Lynne
Stewart Organization
Deena
Stryker, Writer
Texans
for Peace
Thomas
Merton Center Antiwar Committee (Pittsburgh)
Tom
Paine Chapter of Veterans for Peace
Troops
Out Now Coalition
Troy
Neighbors for Peace
Twin
Cities Peace Campaign – Focus on Iraq
U.S.
Labor Against the War (USLAW)
Upper
Hudson Peace Action
Veterans
for Peace (national organization)
Veterans
for Peace 21 in New Jersey
Veterans
for Peace Chapter 80
Vietnam
Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
David
Walsh, Transportation Communications Union Local 1089 Committeeperson*
Wasatch
Coalition for Peace and Justice of Salt Lake City (& Northern Utah)
Waterville
(ME) Area Bridge for Peace and Justice
Wisconsin
Network for Peace and Justice
Women
Against Military Madness
Women
Against War (Albany, NY)
Women
in Black, Duluth Chapter
Women
Speak Out for Peace and Justice (Cleveland)
Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Workers
Action
Workers
International League
Workers
United Local 99


125. Workers World Party

126. World Can’t Wait

127. World Prout Assembly

*for identification only





Here is the updated list of endorsers that I've collected so far
for Oct. 17. -Adam Ritscher



ORGANIZATIONS:

-Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice

-Workers United Local 99
-Duluth Unitarian-Universalist Church
Peace & Social Justice Committee
-Duluth Area Green Party
-Veterans for
Peace, Chapter 80

-Northland Anti-War Coalition
-Northwoods for Mumia
-Lake
Superior Socialist Action
-Lake Superior Greens
-Grandmothers for Peace,
Northland Chapter

-Women in Black, Duluth/Superior Chapter

-Students for Peace (Univ. of MN-Duluth)

-South Dakota ANSWER

-Utah Peace House

INDIVIDUALS:

-Scott Yeazle, Twin Ports Action Coalition

-Paige Makoons Miller, Indigenous Student Alliance
-Tamar
Atzenhoefer, Amnesty International (College of St. Schoalstica)

-Josie Johnson, Amnesty International (College of St.
Schoalstica)

-Susan Loonsk, Northland Center for Art & Ecopsychology

-Scot Bol, Duluth Area Green Party
-Mary Dosch, Duluth MN
-Spike Burch,
Superior WI
-Carl Sack, Northland Anti-War Coalition
-Adam Ritscher, United
Steelworkers Local 9460
-Steve Carlson, Peace North
-Heather Bradford,
Northland Anti-War Coalition

-Steve Wick, UMD Students for Peace
-Rose Helin, Northland
Anti-War Coailtion

- Mujtaba Alwan, Amnesty International (College of St.
Schoalstica)
-Mike Rogge, Northland Anti-War Coalition
-Robert Johnson, UFCW
Local 1116
-Kris Nelson, Northland Anti-War Coalition

-Margaret Nelson, Peace & Freedom Party

-Dave Hopkins, NORML

-Robert Kosuth, Northland Anti-War Coalition

-Penny Cragun, Women in Black

-Lisa Herthel, Northland Anti-War Coalition




forwarded by:
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There are literally thousands of blighted properties
that need to be put back in to commerce. Currently
the only way for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority to do that is through sherrif sales.

Please ask your councilperson and the mayor to insist
on weekly sherrif sales. We've only had 3 so far.   These

three sales were due, in large part, to the efforts of

Councilperson Stacy Head. 

Please write an email asking for weekly sherrif sales

to help rid New Orleans of blight to:

Ceeon.Quiett@...,

psmith@...,

jbclarkson@...,

AFielkow@...,

shead@...,

smidura@...,

JCarter@...,

chmorrell@...,

cwlewis@...,

Ray.Nagin@...

Thank you for helping to fight blight in New Orleans!

http://www.fsjna.org/2009/09/its-your-right-to-fight-blight/

Charlie London

http://fsjna.org

Message from Councilperson Stacy Head below:

BLIGHTED/ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES WILL JUST SIT
unless the city steps up with sheriff sales, which are
cheap and easy. But the administration has to agree
to do more of them...

As you all may be aware, NORA petitioned the La.
Supreme Court to decide that expropriations of property
and transfers to third parties were constitutional.

This decision was necessary to encourage property
title insurance companies to write title policies on
properties transferred by NORA.

Without title insurance, NORA has no ability to get
expropriated blighted properties into commerce.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.

Therefore, at present, the ONLY way to get blighted
properties back into commerce is through sheriff sales.

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October 18, 2009
5:00 - 6:30
Vigil for Peace:
Exorcism of Spirit of War on 8th year of war on Afghanistan
We gather near the fountain at the entrance of Audubon Park across from Loyola
and Tulane Universities at 6300 St Charles Avenue.  Musicians jam starting
around 5:00, then they begin anti-Vietnam War songs of the Sixties like 'Where
Have All the Flowers Gone',  'If I had a hammer', 'I ain't gonna study war no
more' etc., joined by people using song-sheets. Anyone with an instrument may
join the musicians in this on-the-spot combo.


Sacred bell begins the ceremony at 5:30
FATHER LOUIS ARCENAUX offers words of welcome and choral prayer
CHUCK PERKINS performs poetry about post-Flood New Orleans as a call to hope
with determination to renew our lives together and as a blessing on the spirit
of renewal in the City
ROBERT DESMARAIS SULLIVAN pronounces a formal renunciation of the spirit of war
on this eighth anniversary of US attack on Afghanistan
SISTER THERESA BILLEAUD leads a pledge in the spirit of Martin Luther King to
creative non-violence and end of perpetual war
Sacred bell ends the ceremony
Bring your own drinks, desserts and dialogue



Sponsored by the Peace and Justice Action Team of the First Unitarian
Universalist Church of New Orleans and Pax Christi of New Orleans.  Contact:
Robert Desmarais Sullivan (aiglefort@hotmail. com)
You may want to watch ‘Fabled Enemies’ on the full story of September 11,
2001, to put the War on Afghanistan into perspective.

Forwarded by:
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New Orleans
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