New Orleans
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Louisiana Black-out: Not an Act of God, an Act of Entergy
I was hired by the City of New Orleans to investigate why their power company, Entergy, simply can’t keep the lights on while citizens’ electric bills soar. That was in 1986. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 28 August, 2013: The "Dreamer" With a Kill List, the "Dreamer" as Zombie, Syria Enters American Hell
28 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Dr. King Was A Man, “The Dreamer” Is A Zombie by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gary Younge points out that King’s “I Have A Dream” speech wasn’t offered as the penultimate moment of his career till after his death. Those Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report July 4 2012: GOP Healthcare In Effect / GA Prison Strike / Frisco Stop-and-Frisk
4 July 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama Bound for Mount Rushmore? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama‘s healthcare plan, now vetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is the spawn of Republican reactionaries, “based on the principle that people should pay for their own bodily Continue reading
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New Atlantis – Part Two: How musicians rebuilt New Orleans
More from the interview with jazz writer John Swenson. How jazz musicians pulled together to save New Orleans the city after the federal levee failures. Includes footage from one of the first big second line parades after the flood, a memorial parade for a murdered artist, and musician Glen David Andrews speaking at the Silence… Continue reading
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Video: New Atlantis – Part One: How musicians rebuilt New Orleans
24 August 2011 — Jazz on the Tube Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 May 2011: Obama Killing Spree / Brazil in Haiti / Obama Needs Birthers
4 May 2011 — BAR – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Osama, Obama and Bush: Apt Comparisons, Missed Opportunities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Illustration by Leon Kuhn. More of his work at http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/ This weekend the White House announced the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the secret disposal Continue reading
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Snooks Eaglin ‘Baby Please’
21 January, 2011 — Jazz on the Tube Snooks Eaglin, the idiosyncratic New Orleans rhythm & blues guitarist with fleet-fingered dexterity and a boundless repertoire. 1st collector for Snooks Eaglin ‘Baby Please’ Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Promo: Tradition is a Temple
TRADITION IS A TEMPLE explores New Orleans’ unique musical culture and the fragility of tradition in the modern world. The movie weaves together intimate personal discussions shot over a four year span with once-in-a-lifetime studio performances by New Orleans greats, such as Shannon Powell, Lucien Barbarin, Jason Marsalis, Topsy Chapman, Steve Masakowski, Ed Petersen, Roland… Continue reading
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New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones
16 September, 2010 — The Real News Network Jordan Flaherty: Thousands of people are not able to return to New Orleans. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4456756 New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones, posted with vodpod Bio Jordan Flaherty is a New Orleans-based journalist and works with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story Continue reading
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Treme: A new video on Katrina
John Goodman – spokesperson for Levees.org – is Creighton Bernette in the new drama by HBO called Treme. Mr. Goodman, whose character is based on the late blogger Ashley Morris, is an angry, excitable fierce New Orleans who is not afraid to say out loud that the federal Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for… Continue reading
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Confronting the Occupation: Haiti, Neo-liberalism, and the US Occupation By Kali Akuno
The three-month marker for the earthquake that devastated Haiti is now upon us. The significance of this marker is not one determined by the Haitian people, but rather by the enemies of the Haitian people and peoples’ movements throughout the world. Continue reading
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Learn from Cuba says New Orleans mayor By Tom Mellen
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin praised Cuba’s disaster response system on Tuesday, acknowledging that the islands’s socialist authorities ‘do a much better job than we do.’ Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Erasing Katrina
August 29 marked the fourth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The devastation wrought by both the hurricane itself and the government’s inept response prompted remarkably critical corporate media coverage that promised to fight for Katrina survivors and change the way we talk about poverty and race. But… Continue reading
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Protecting Coastal Communities: The Dutch Say Yes We Do – In America, We Can, Too
Levees.org has created a video documentary using footage captured by an Amsterdam-based filmmaker while in The Netherlands this past May….HJ Bosworth Jr and Sandy Rosenthal were part of US Senator Mary Landrieu’s Second Congressional Delegation (CoDel) excursion to Holland. Unlike the first CoDel which studied peripheral barriers (floodgates), the goal of the Second CoDel was… Continue reading
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The Katrina Myth – the truth about a thoroughly unnatural disaster
Few people understand what really happened in New Orleans or what caused it. Fewer still realize that they too may be living under a similar or an even greater threat. This video exposes the key myths and misunderstandings about the New Orleans flood. Continue reading
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Chris Floyd: A Correction and an Apology
Obviously, I was letting my knee-jerk liberal PC prejudices run wild. For as a new article in The Nation forcefully demonstrates, African-Americans are not treated as second-class citizens in the United States; they are treated as wild animals to be hunted down and shot in cold blood. Continue reading
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Media Lens Alert: “Not Very Interesting” – Haiti, New Orleans And Media Hypocrisy
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media September 16, 2008 On September 1, the press began warning that “the storm of the century” was about to hit New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav “bore down nearly three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city”. (‘It’s the storm of the Continue reading
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IN THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE: AS ONE STORM THREATENS, ANOTHER IS OUT OF MEDIA SIGHT, OUT OF OUR MINDS By Danny Schechter
One catastrophe may be coming. The other may be already here, and a third, well, no one wants to talk about that. You can move populations away from hurricanes. You can adore or make fun of unusual politicians. But what do you do about a financial tsunami that everyone knows is structural but many would… Continue reading
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Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans By Bill Quigley
In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in dark blue uniforms and sunglasses sit a few feet away in their cars. Moms and grandmas sit with… Continue reading
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The Gulf of Disbelief By William Bowles
Aside from everything else Hurricane Katrina has blown away it’s also ripped off the mask that covers the real face of corporate capitalism and reveals the stark reality that the US government has as little regard for its own ‘citizens’ as it does for those of Iraq or Afghanistan. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 