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Please register in advance here: https://tulane.zoom.us/.../regi.../WN_qzhKDUD6S36ZK-LYYMCzgw The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South and A Studio in the Woods present a virtual discussion with National Book Award winner and 2016-18 Gulf South Writer in the Woods Edward Ball and Tulane historian Dr. Laura Rosanne Adderley about Ball’s book, "Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy", which addresses painful truths of America’s racist past and present, engages with the vibrant national discussion of anti-racism, and serves as an anti-racist history of white supremacy in Louisiana. The program includes opening remarks by Dr. Anneliese Singh, Tulane University Associate Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development and Chief Diversity Officer. Presented by the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, housed within the Tulane School of Liberal Arts, and A Studio in the Woods, a program of the Tulane ByWater Institute, with co-sponsors Amistad Research Center and Garden District Book Shop. Event Objectives - Empower contemporary anti-racist work by illuminating the often purposefully obscured history of white supremacy in order to better understand its patterns, insidious power, and crippling effects. - Educate our community about New Orleans’ role in the global construction of theories of race and its intertwined histories of white supremacist and racist mob violence, publications, and governance, and of anti-racist, Black-led organizing, publications, and governance. - Respond to the call to expose Tulane’s white supremacist history by educating ourselves about Tulane’s history and relationship to the global construction of race theory, as host of lectures by “race philosophers” instrumental in codifying and popularizing constructs of race, and to white radical terrorism, as meeting hall for local white vigilante terrorists who participated in mob violence, government insurrection, and massacre, which is detailed in this book. - Explore how 19th century organized white violence relates to white nationalism and violence today and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.
Louisiana Survivors for Reform will host a Trauma Informed Advocacy Workshop on Wednesday, March 3rd at 6 pm for people who have experienced harm, crime survivors, and victim-survivors on the basics of delivering public testimony and to give survivors some tips on telling our stories to policymakers how we want to. LSR believes that advocacy can be a form of healing. Making policy and budget processes more accessible to survivor involvement is crucial to comprehensive criminal justice reform.
The workshop is free and via zoom. It will be moderated by Rev. Alexis Anderson of East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (EBRPPRC) with presentations from lobbyist Mary-Patricia Wray of Top Drawer Strategies and former State Legislator/current New Orleans City Councilmember At-Large Helena Moreno. Please register below to receive the zoom information. Contact 504-535-4912 or lsr@defendla.org with any questions.
Dr. Denise Frazier and Dr. John "Ray" Proctor discuss Women and Movement #8: African American Women Affecting the Arts in New Orleans, taking. place Friday, February 5, at 11AM CST. Registration link at bottom of description.
Music Rising at Tulane presents Women and Movement #8: African American Women Affecting the Arts in New Orleans Five African American women will discuss how they are navigating their specific artistic mediums and working with their communities during this unprecedented time of socio-political unrest and international pandemic.
As in past panels, this conversation will also consider the politics of race, artistic agency, and artistic opportunity.
Panelists include: Doreen Ketchens (Doreen's Jazz New Orleans), Diane Mack (Producer and Morning Edition Host, WWNO), Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson (Guardians of the Flame Maroon Society co-founder ), and Joy Clark (Musician, songwriter, and guitarist). Moderated by Lauren E. Turner (Producing Artistic Director of No Dream Deferred NOLA).
Sponsored by New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Organized by theater professor Dr. John "Ray" Proctor and assistant director of New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Dr. Denise Frazier.
REGISTER AT https://tulane.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s7uJq9atQq2AofkYPpoUlg?_x_zm_rtaid=exnf_qMfT_mAKkpYNen7Sg.1612146176220.6512273a6414c130b67c6e4be0e1fc89&_x_zm_rhtaid=290
Denise Frasier and Theo Hilton discuss this upcoming event.
"Join Gulf South Writer in the Woods Ladee Hubbard and culinary historian Jessica Harris for a discussion of Hubbard’s new novel, "The Rib King" on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6pm CT. Hubbard works to deconstruct painful African American stereotypes and offers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition, exploitation, and the seeds of rage in America in this intricately woven and masterfully executed historical novel, set in the early twentieth century, that centers around the Black servants of a down-on-its heels upper-class white family. Elegantly written and exhaustively researched, "The Rib King" is an unsparing examination of America’s fascination with Black iconography and exploitation that redefines African American stereotypes in literature. In this powerful, disturbing, and timely novel, Ladee Hubbard reveals who people actually are, and most importantly, who and what they are not. Ladee Hubbard served as the 2019-2020 Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South that supports the creative work, scholarship and community engagement of writers examining the Gulf South region.
Ladee Hubbard is the author of "The Talented Ribkins" which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Times Literary Supplement, Arkansas International, Copper Nickel and Callaloo among other venues. She is a recipient of a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and has also received fellowships from Art Omi, the Sacatar Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Hedgebrook, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among other places. Born in Massachusetts and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida, she currently lives in New Orleans with her husband and three children. Jessica B. Harris is an award-winning food historian and one of the world’s leading experts on African Diaspora cooking. She is the author of the memoir, "My Soul Looks Back" (Simon & Schuster, 2017) about her youth in Harlem in the Seventies, where her social circle included James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Nina Simone and other leading black intellectuals and artists of the time. She is the author of twelve critically acclaimed cookbooks documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora as well, including "Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New World Cooking", "Sky Juice and Flying Fish Traditional Caribbean Cooking", "The Welcome Table: African-American Heritage Cooking", "The Africa Cookbook: Tastes of a Continent", and "Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim". Harris also conceptualized and organized "The Black Family Reunion Cookbook". Her book, "High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America", was the International Association for Culinary Professionals 2012 prize winner for culinary history. For more information, please contact Regina Cairns at 504-314-2854 or rcairns@tulane.edu"
From the Alliance for Affordable Energy website:
"Thousands of New Orleanians have called for a 100% renewable energy powered city, green jobs and environmental justice. And yet, Entergy and the private consultants who advise the City Council on regulating Entergy (out-of-state firms Dentons and Legends) continue to play profiteering politics with New Orleans’ future."
"The Energy Future New Orleans (EFNO) Coalition works for a REAL- Renewable, Equitable, Affordable and Liveable- energy system and green economy in New Orleans. Sustainable energy solutions would lower our electricity bills and provide good, local green jobs. Join the call to stop polluting profiteers from calling the shots at City Hall. Stand up for real solutions and a 100% renewable energy New Orleans."
Interview with Denise Frazier, assistant director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South
Gulf South Writer in the Woods, a program of A Studio in the Woods and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, supports the creative work, scholarship and community engagement of writers examining the Gulf South region.
Specifically, this year we aim to support BILAPOC Speculative Fiction writers working in prose, poetry and stage/screenwriting. Special consideration will be given to southern voices, under-represented communities, and perspectives not often heard. Eligible writers must live in the Gulf South, be from/have heritage in the Gulf South, and/or write about the Gulf South. The awardee will receive a stipend of $5,000, a 6-week residency at A Studio in the Woods over 18 months, Tulane University library access, and staff support from the presenting partners. APPLY https://www.astudiointhewoods.org/2020/11/18/open-call-for-next-gulf-south-writer-in-the-woods/
The Seaway Movement: A Lecture by Richard Campanella Monday, December 7 6:00PM-7:15PM CST Registration Link: https://tulane.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xElF_smgSkm1wG3A0YWrWA
New Orleans Center for the Gulf South invites you to our annual Monroe Lecture with geographer Richard Campanella. Campanella is associate dean and senior professor of practice in Tulane University's School of Architecture. In this illustrated talk, Campanella explores two rival shipping canals of the West Bank, one dug by enslaved laborers and the other by immigrants, and how they reconfigured the urban geography of our region—nearly to the point of calamity.
As a geographer, Campanella researches questions of “where” and “why there.” That is, he tries to identify, characterize, and explain spatial patterns—of human settlement, the built environment, and the underlying physical geography—with an emphasis on New Orleans and Louisiana. His approach is empirical and quantitative, using mapping and spatial analysis tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing, integrated with qualitative sources and humanistic methods.
His recent work The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography examines the West Bank holistically, as a legitimate subregion with its own story to tell. No other part of greater New Orleans has more diverse yet deeply rooted populations: folks who speak in local accents, who exhibit longstanding cultural traits, and, in some cases, who maintain family ownership of lands held since antebellum times―even as immigrants settle here in growing numbers. Campanella demonstrates that West Bankers have had great agency in their own place-making, and he challenges the notion that their story is subsidiary to a more important narrative across the river.
For more information on Richard Campanella, please visit https://richcampanella.com/. For more information on this event, please email gulfsouth@tulane.edu or call 504-314-2854.
Braid and Flow: Power Friday, December 11, 12:00-1:00PM CST and Monday, December 14, 4:00-5:15PM CST Zoom Link: tulane.zoom.us/j/92870457936
Electrical power is measured in watts. The time it takes for power to transfer to an electric circuit is determined by the rate of work done by an object which is held at certain constant velocities. Hurricane Zeta demonstrated how reliant we are on the "constant" of electrical power. The recent election and impending transfer of presidential powers is a reminder of the precarious and delicate balance of democracy amidst national and political divisions. In December, Braid and Flow will tackle the topic of "Power." How is it transferred? At what velocity does it travel? What is its impact?
Braid and Flow convenes twice each month to explore themes that stretch across scales and disciplines, such as food and food systems, racial violence, climate, money, cultural institutions, technology and intimacy. Our goal is to strengthen the theories and the practices that guide our work as artists, activists, researchers, policy makers, writers, scientists, designers, teachers, students, and leaders, all working to navigate the Anthropocene and the challenges of climate change, white supremacy, and the global pandemic.
These conversations are hosted by the The Blue House/Civic Studio, Water Leaders Institute, PUNCTUATE, Antenna, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, and the Gulf South Anthropocene Working Group, with the support of the following people: Shana griffin, Aron Chang, Rebecca Snedeker, and Denise Frazier. Please reach out if you'd like to join the team or otherwise support these convenings.
Spread the word! Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/DM7C9f5p. For more information, please email gulfsouth@tulane.edu.
Theo interviews Eye On Surveillance member Renard Bridgewater about Wednesday's #SurveillanceAintSafety Press Conference
www.eyeonsurveillance.org https://www.facebook.com/keepaneyeonsurveillance https://www.facebook.com/events/1300171500381828/
(from New Orleans Center for the Gulf South website)
Women and Movement #7: Agitators, Policymakers, and Dismantlers in New Orleans October 08, 2020 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM
Uptown Campus
Featuring Lisa D. Alexis, Jennifer M. Williams, Hannah Kreiger-Benson, Angela Tucker
Women and Movement #7: Agitators, Policymakers, and Dismantlers in New Orleans will be a panel of women who are at the intersection of affecting change in New Orleans cultural policy. All three panelists and moderator have shifted, dismantled, and agitated calcified understandings of the status quo with regards to cultural policy and the New Orleans cultural climate.
Panelists include the following: Lisa D. Alexis, Director of Mayor Latoya Cantrell's Office of Cultural Economy New Orleans; Jennifer M. Williams, DismantleNOMA and Alternate Roots; Hannah Kreiger-Benson, Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans. This event will be moderated by Angela Tucker, filmmaker and Tulane professor.
The Women and Movement series is designed to collectively engage women scholars and artists from across the gulf south region to take part in discourse about place, performance and the social-political issues that transform their bodies, art, language, and greater community.
This program is in conjunction with Imagining America 2020 Collective Creative Engagement: Through Tumultuous Times: Reimagining and Rebuilding ‘America’.
Zoom Link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/97722942901
For more information, please contact Regina Cairns at 504-314-2854 or rcairns@tulane.edu.
For more information on Imagining America, please visit imaginingamerica.org.
New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University
For more information contact: Regina Cairns via email to rcairns@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-314-2854 Tickets are Not required
Interview with Sultana Isham and Denise Frazier about Sultana's talk titled "Bloodflow: Memory and the Racialization of Sound and Gender." October 1, Noon Central Time. https://tulane.zoom.us/j/95171961851
(from Sultana's facebook page) this thursday! this lecture is a follow up to my essay, 'bloodline,' that I published 2 years ago where I merged ethnomusicology w/ a psychoanalysis of memory & ancestral trauma. my research has expanded into more disciplines in pursuit of providing a portrait to fragmented/erased (her)history. bring headphones!
Theo interviers retired Hon. Judge Calvin Johnson about the New Orleans People's DA Coalition and their upcoming candidate forum.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peoples-da-coalition-candidate-forum-tickets-121408322561
Baristas from the Still Perkin' Coffee Shop on Prytania Street have been on. strike since May 16, demanding PPE, hazard pay, and federally mandated paid sick leave. Charlotte, one of the striking workers, describes conditions at Still Perkin' and the path these workers see forward.
(from announcement) STRIKING SANITATION WORKERS, CITY WASTE UNION,
I AM A MAN PRESS CONFERENCE
MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 11:00 A.M.
STEPS OF CITY HALL, NEW ORLEANS
NOTE: Wear masks and social distance
You are invited to a press conference with striking workers, the City Waste Union, City officials, unions, community and religious organizations.
70% OF COVID 19 DEATHS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
SANITATION WORKERS SAY DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE
With 70% of Covid 19 deaths in the Black Community in New Orleans now is the time to change the underlying issues that create this tragic situation. Lack of adequate an secure pay, lack of health insurance, sick pay, vacation pay (a health issue), and greater exposure of workers to COVID 19, stress of racist inequality, dangerous jobs, and discrimination in health care treatment have long been documented as issues behind shorter life spans and more deaths.
THESE ARE THE ISSUES WE ARE STRIKING TO CORRECT
BLACK WORKERS LIVES MATTER
DR. KING TOOK A SIDE FOR MEMPHIS SANITATION WORKERS
TO HONOR DR. KING STAND WITH NEW ORLEANS SANITATION WORKERS
Thanks, The City Waste Union
Theo Hilton interviews Grace Treffinger and Serra Torres from Cattail Cooks about healthy food and mutual aid during Covid-19.
Theo Hilton speaks with Sade Dumas and Bruce Reilly about COVID-19 concerns for incarcerated people in New Orleans and around Louisiana, the urgent need for fewer people and more medical professionals inside prisons and jails, and New Orleans en banc protocol to keep manyincarcerated people safe by releasing them during natural disasters. More info about VOTEs advocacy is at https://www.instagram.com/vote_nola . Folks can also follow https://www.instagram.com/powercoalition
Theo Hilton speaks with Jayeesha Dutta from Another Gulf is Possible about their Covid-19 Community Resources site
https://anothergulf.com/covid-19communitycare/?fbclid=IwAR1Op4icmJREq1f6Nv3-ny3QvTIWWoad_xF9EZm9EffSa690ccju-V8s43o
Interview with Denise Frazier and Maura Sullivan about the third annual Tulane Indigenous symposium--NOW POSTPONED TO MARCH 2021.
https://www.tunicabiloxi.org/third-annual-new-orleans-center-for-the-gulf-south-indigenous-symposium/
(from Tulane bios) Denise Frazier is assistant director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. A scholar, educator, violinist, and Gulf South native, she describes herself as “fascinated by this region,” and “enthusiastic to work with other people who are excited to discuss it as well and put it in a larger and more global context.” Denise earned her Master’s and PhD in Latin American Studies from Tulane, and now serves on the program committee of Tulane’s indigenous symposium.
Maura Sullivan is a member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, Ph.D. Student in Linguistics and fellow in the Tulane Mellon program in Community Engaged Research here at Tulane University, and a member of the Indigenous Symposium program committee as well.
Interview with Anna Anderson, Jules Griff, and Gahiji Akhil Lumumba Barrow from the New Orleans Independent Police Monitor's Police Mediation Program. The program is currently recruiting new mediators, who are asked to mediate at least 5 disputes per year.
https://nolaipm.gov/
Theo Hilton interviews artists Abdi Farah, Akasha Rabut, Ashely Teamer and Dapper Bruce Lafitte, along with printers and show organizers Cora Lautze and Julian Wellisz.
Through the lens of high school football, acrylic nails, black-hair trends, and marching bands, respectively, these four New Orleans artists examine and portray identity as personal, political, communal and distinctly New Orleanian.
Cora Lautze and Julian Wellisz comprise What Editions - a New Orleans based print-production studio specializing in intaglio, relief and screen, that collaborates with artists to produce limited edition print series and curates these works for galleries.
On view: February 4 - March 8 Opening Reception: FRIDAY, February 7th 6:00-10:00 Daily hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12-5
Cashauna Hill is the executive director of the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. Their Fit For A King summit takes place Thursday, January 16, 2020 from 9AM-3PM at the New Orleans Jazz Market.
https://fitforaking.org/lafhac-2 https://lafairhousing.org https://www.facebook.com/fitforakingband/
From the website: Nia Weeks is the Founder and Executive Director of Citizen SHE United, and advocacy group in Louisiana that is building an aligned base of Black Women who inform, advocate for and enact a collective policy agenda to address the needs of Black Women across the state. She is the former director of Policy and Advocacy at Women With A Vision located in New Orleans Louisiana. Nia is a native of New Orleans, and has spent years fighting for the rights of women, children, and families. Nia received her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Women’s studies at Indiana State University, where her advocacy training began. After completing her undergraduate education, she worked in public relations before beginning law school. She then graduated with a law degree from the Loyola School of Law in New Orleans in 2009.
Her post Law School career has been immersed in work that focuses on addressing a variety of systemic issues that marginalized community members have asked to be examined. The year immediately following law school, she clerked for a City Court Judge.
FROM THE N2A WEBSITE
OUR VISION: We envision a world in which families and communities are not divided by systems of incarceration and in which we all work collectively to fight mass incarceration, and other interconnected systems of oppression, to create a just world for everyone.
OUR MISSION:
Nola to Angola organizes an annual bicycle ride to Angola Prison to support and fund the Cornerstone Builders Bus Project, which connects families to their incarcerated loved ones. We also organize a shorter social justice ride around New Orleans to highlight the work of community partners fighting mass incarceration. We educate people about the ways in which mass incarceration works in tandem with other systems of oppression, such as poverty and white supremacy, to disproportionately harm members of our communities. We do this through collective organizing, as well as leading training rides and educational events. We prioritize partnering with organizations led by formerly-incarcerated people and people of color, and work to support their leadership on prison justice issues.
Interviews with Stand With Dignity organizer Alfred Marshall and 350 New Orleans organizer Renate Heurich about current campaigns and major events this week.
Interview with Wiggy, Toni, and Alaina from the Real Name Campaign.
The Real Name Campaign is a grassroots effort to make legal name and gender marker changes more accessible in Orleans Parish. They are hosting a fundraiser dinner Thursday, September 12 at 125 N. Carrollton.
Info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1634856293314347/ Petition here: https://saymyname.typeform.com/to/YsFj5E
Interview with Alliance for Affordable Energy director Logan Burke about their upcoming Renewable Portfolio Symposium
https://www.facebook.com/events/2133373293620782/
From All4Energy Website: "Want a Renewable-Powered New Orleans? In response to community voices like yours asking for a clean and affordable energy future, a process is underway to develop the first Renewable Portfolio Standard in the region. A coalition of local and national advocates are working together on a plan that ensures equitable outcomes & prioritizes resilience. Come to the symposium on June 15th, learn more, and tell us what you want to see for New Orleans' energy future."
The song is "Electricity, Electricity" recorded by the band Goodness for the School House Rock Rocks compilation
From website: "Founded in 2004 by New Orleans artists and activists, PATOIS has premiered hundreds of powerful social justice-oriented films from around the world while highlighting brilliant local filmmakers and vital grassroots organizations. PATOIS is dedicated to nurturing the New Orleans' human rights community, supporting the work of organizers and organizations involved in these struggles, and providing a forum for artistic expression of local and international issues."
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/3943304
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
Holodeck Heart is a Seattle and Portland based Indie-Queer-Star-Trek-Fan-Fiction Band led by the Queer/Trans dou Angeline (Fear Kittens, Vegan Seagull) and Korel Ponti-Foss (The Waltz Invention, Lesbian Lover Duo aka BiSexual Boyfriend). Formed officially in 2014, HH started out of a friendship and mutual love of watching Star Trek to get through the deep anxiety and depression of the Bush era. Though HH writes love songs based in the Star Trek Universe, the songs are accessible to the Trek lover and non-Trekkie alike (though some have been known to start watching after a show!), Holodeck Heart believes that Star Trek offers a unique venue to explore queer love and politics in a nostalgic and comedic way.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.
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New Orleans, LA, January 11, 2019—Workers from across New Orleans will converge on the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Monday to declare a national emergency over President Trump’s war against workers, communities of color, immigrants, women and the LGBTQ community. The announcement coincides with President Trump’s appearance at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention and comes as President Trump’s shutdown over the border wall is forcing hundreds of thousands of federal workers to struggle with how to provide for their families.
President Trump suggested on Thursday that he may upend the democratic process and constitutional norms to raid disaster relief funding, including money budgeted for Louisiana infrastructure projects intended to protect against hurricanes. The irony of cutting disaster prevention funding to pay for a manufactured crisis on the southern border is not lost on immigrant reconstruction workers who face the threat of deportation from Trump’s anti-immigrant vendetta, Black New Orleanians watching a federal erosion of police oversight 13 years after the Danziger Bridge, or poor New Orleanians still unable to afford to return to New Orleans even as Trump cuts taxes for corporations and the rich.
The declaration is being organized by the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice and the New Orleans People’s Assembly. Workers who helped rebuild New Orleans and who bore the impact of the government’s catastrophic response after Hurricane Katrina will give testimony on how Trump’s national disaster threatens their safety and economic security and will break out their clean up gear to remind the American public what happens when the response to a national disaster is negligent.
Interview recorded 11/20/2018.
Today we’re speaking with Alaina Comeaux, who is Ishak and who organizes Bulbancha, Decolonized Walk of New Orleans. Alaina is an educator and began hosting the walk this Fall after hearing interest from numerous people. Interview discusses indigenous history in the area known as New Orleans, foodways, erasure, and ways of claiming space today.
From event FB page:
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION ON GENTRIFICATION AND RESISTANCE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO SOUTH AFRICA. This event is co-sponsored with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, Gallery of the Streets, and Anti-Gentrification Action Group.
Not In My Neighbourhood (86 minutes, 2018), directed by Kurt Orderson, Screening with the short film Displacement in Central City New Orleans (15 minutes, 2017), directed by Trupania Bonner.
Discussion after the film featuring filmmakers Kurt Orderson and Trupania Bonner, urbanist and advocate Sue Mobley, and artist and organizer kai lumumba barrow, moderated by Charmel Gaulden.
NOT IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD FILM SUMMARY: Not in my Neigbourhood depicts citizens on the frontlines of intersectional struggles against gentrification in three cities.
The film follows the daily struggles, trials and triumphant moments, as residents try to shape the cities they live in from the bottom up.
Over 3 years South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson followed the anti-gentrification and police brutality monitoring collective Copwatch in New York, occupation movements in Sao Paulo, and gentrification in Woodstock, Cape Town. Making connections through the inter-generational stories of people fighting for the right to their city, Not in my Neighbourhood takes the viewer on a journey into the everyday lives of community members and how they experience and battle the violence of displacement on a daily basis.
TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/237044326
FILMMAKER BIO: Kurt Orderson is an award-winning filmmaker from Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, producing, shooting and directing magazine shows and numerous documentaries for television. He is the founder and director of Azania Rizing, a production company that aims to inspire young people through creative storytelling about Africa and African Diasporas. The company has aims at mapping the influence of African legacies around the world to facilitate international dialogue by linking local and global stories. Kurt has directed and produced multiple documentaries and narrative films that have screened at international film festivals and on various broadcasts outlets.
FILMMAKER BIO: Trupania Bonner is an organizer, award-winning filmmaker, and director of Crescent City Media Group based in New Orleans, LA. For nearly ten years, Trupania has worked at the intersection of film, civic engagement and social change throughout the South. In 2013, Trupania was selected as a National Micro-Fest Fellow and as an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar in 2012 honoring Trupania’s innovative approach to community building and voter engagement. From 2008-2012, he served as Executive Director of Moving Forward Gulf Coast, Inc., a community-based organization building potential in communities of color across the Gulf Coast. Trupania currently serves on the board of Project South, the 2025 National Black Men and Boys Network, and the National Men Against Violence Network. Crescent City Media Group anchors communication projects for the Southern Movement Alliance.
Interview with Dianne Jones, Fox Rich, and Sade Dumas about prison abolition, the incarceration of women, and how to bring change to the system.
Their community town hall event, titled Ending the Incarceration of Women and Girls: How We Get There, takes place at First Grace Church on Saturday, July 21, from 1-4 PM.
https://www.facebook.com/events/809473302585343/ http://wwav-no.org/ https://opprcnola.org/ http://www.foxrich.com/index.html
Chamblee-Ryan is the lead attorney on cases currently being brought against DA Cannizzaro's office, alledging that illegally they issued fake subpoenas to witnesses and victims of crimes in attempt to coerce statements directly to the DA's office, in addition to illegally detaining witnesses using material witness warrants. Hear about the past, present, and future of the case.
Interview with Miranda Yonta. Along with co-organizer Laura Ekua, Yonta is working on the Black Mama's Bailout Action, cosponsored by Southerhers on New Ground and local organization Women With A Vision. We talk about the bail system, courts and incarceration in Orleans Parish, and this action to bring Black Mamas (widely defined) home this mother's day.
Interview with Claire Beauchamp from European Dissent's Anti-Gentrification Action Group about their upcoming workshop.
Want to fight for economically just, diverse communities, but aren't sure how? Worry that you are contributing to gentrification, but don't know what to do about it?
Registration is free & will give you access to pre-event readings: RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/ENpRuMtfFv2DO0QQ2
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"Finding your place in fighting displacement: Building an anti-racist strategy" is a half-day workshop focused on individual and collective action that gentrifiers can take to mitigate our role in displacement while supporting development that benefits existing communities. We will explore these actions in the context of New Orleans' highly racialized history of gentrification.
White people have disproportionately perpetuated and benefited from gentrification, and consequently have an out-sized responsibility to change its course. With this in mind, we are partnering with Black organizers to create a multi-racial environment challenging gentrifiers to take informed action.
This event is free and open to anyone committed to building an anti-racist understanding of the impact of gentrification and a lack of affordable housing in New Orleans.
Hosted by: The Anti-Gentrification Action Group, a working group of European Dissent that focuses on education and advocacy around the role of white people in housing justice issues in New Orleans.
This workshop is part of a month-long festival called The Rent Is Too Damn High! at the Boxing Gym. Presented by Color BLOC, the exhibition and catalogue publication celebrates the New Orleans tricentennial and creates a platform for Black New Orleanians to use art, history and culture to make meaning of the city’s tricentennial legacy, and, ultimately, to shape it.
Learn more about Color BLOC and exhibition programming here: https://color-bloc.com/
Get tickets here: http://neworleans.boldtypetickets.com/events/51345355/the-rent-is-too-damn-high people 18 and under get in free
Interview with Rontherin Ratliff, John Isiah Walton, and Carl Joe Wiliams from the Level Arts Collective, whose show, Inside Out: Reflections on incarceration in Louisiana, runs through May 6 at the Double Shotgun gallery. Info below.
Featuring Keith Calhoun, Glenn Ford, Ana Hernandez, Maria Hinds, Chandra McCormick, Brandan Odums, Sheila Phipps, Rontherin Ratliff, John Isiah Walton, and Carl Joe Williams.
April 14-May 6, 2018 Opening reception: Saturday, April 14, 2018, 5-8 p.m. Gallery hours: Saturday & Sunday 12-5 or by appointment
Louisiana currently has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the United States (and the world), with 816 people in prison for every 100,000 residents. That’s nearly double the national average. Since the late 1970’s the number of people in prison has grown 30 times faster than the state’s population.
While New Orleans celebrates its “Tricentennial,” Inside Out seeks to recognize our incarcerated populations and provide insights into their lived experiences. Every day in the state of Louisiana thousands of people are enduring dangerous, torturous and inhumane conditions of confinement that have long lasting physical and psychological effects. Their voices are often marginalized, yet their resilience, creativity and experiences have much to contribute to the narrative of American life and history.
Much of this exhibit relates to Angola prison or LSP (Louisiana State Penitentiary), an 18,000 acre maximum security prison located on the banks of the Mississippi river in central Louisiana on land formally occupied by slave plantations. Also known as ‘The Farm’, Angola houses 6300 incarcerated men, most of whom have life sentences among whom most will die in the prison. The Department of Corrections paired with a racially biased legal system, perpetuates a legacy of slavery by disproportionately targeting black, brown and poor white people for incarceration, the majority of whom are housed in for-profit facilities. One in eighty-six adult Louisianians are incarcerated, nearly double the national average. Among black men from New Orleans, one in fourteen are behind bars; one in seven are either in prison, on parole or on probation.
Interview with Nicky Gillies and Julie Connelly from NOLA to Angola about the organizations Bike Ride and Cookout for Prison Justice coming up Saturday, April 7th, starting and ending at City Park.
More info at www.nolatoangola.org
Recorded March 13, 2018. Imani Jacqueline Brown discusses fossil fueled culture, the Fossil Free Movement, and the upcoming festival that will bring together folks involved in artistic, scientific, and political pursuits (lots of overlap already!) to talk about resisting oil and frankly assessing our own accountabilities in fossil fuel culture.
Ernest Johnson discusses Ubuntu Village NOLA, an organization with a mission "to provide programming that delivers social, economic, and transformational justice to children and communities" here in New Orleans.
Their recently released report "Parents Fighting for Youth Justice" outlines experiences of parents and families of children in New Orleans' juvenile courts. It highlights three core issues: "lack of information and communication," "lack of respect for families," and "lack of effective rehabilitative services and policies."
https://ubuntuvillagenola.org/
Episode 5: Renate Heurich and Logan Atkinson Burke from 350NOLA and Alliance for Affordable Energy by Cruisin Records
We speak with Jose and Rachel about Jose's experiences since coming to the United States from El Salvador fourteen years ago, including his decision to take sanctuary at First Grace, where Congreso is based. We also discuss Congreso's work and opportunities to participate.
Step Up Louisiana is a member-based economic and education justice-focused organization in New Orleans. Ben Zucker organizes their economic justice work, focusing on a three point platform for political change. Learn about their work!
Special edition interview with Cliff Soloway of New Orleans Jewish Voice for Peace. Soloway talks about the New Orleans Human Rights Resolution, passed unanimously by the city council January 11th. The council now considers rescinding their decision. JVP is part of a coalition of local organizations supporting the resolution.
New Orleans' city council passed a groundbreaking human rights resolution last week, calling for a screen for human rights abuses along the supply chain for municipal expenditures. Half a week later, that legislation is being challenged. We interview Tabitha Mustafa of the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee about these developments and what comes next for her organization.
This week, we speak with Sade Dumas, director of the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition. We’ll hear about the OPPRC’s recent campaigns, the significance of the number 1438, and current efforts to close the Orleans Parish Prison’s Temporary Detention Center.
Renee Corrigan and Maxwell Ciardullo outline the work of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. Their annual "Fit For A King" summit takes place on Friday, January 12th, and will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act and the influential work of Dr. Martin Luther King. Bree Newsome will be the keynote speaker. More information about GNOFHAC and the summit can be found at
www.gnofairhousing.org www.fitforaking.org