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Green Party of Louisiana
Working to Rebuild a Better New Orleans
“New Orleans can be rebuilt with environmentally sustainable planning; a vast transportation infrastructure upgrade, including public evacuation plans; a bolstered public works system that creates stable union jobs; new public schools; a renewed investment in the public healthcare system; and cultivation of neighborhood councils as incubators for a new, participatory, and radical democracy among the working class, poor, and oppressed...“
- Robert Caldwell, GNOGP
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Green Party Presidential Nominations
The Presidential Campaign Support Committee has approved a list of Green Party Presidential Candidates, according to the guidelines voted on by the Green National Committee.
Visit the GPUS site for more information.
GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:
Jesse Johnson – http://www.jesse08.org/
Cynthia McKinney – http://www.runcynthiarun.org/
Kent Mesplay – http://www.mesplay.org/
Kat Swift – http://www.voteswift.org/
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Green Party says racially biased US justice system needs drastic overhaul
Green Party of the United States
Greens urge far-reaching steps in the US justice system to correct biases against African Americans, Latinos, and poor people, and to end record US incarceration rates
- Green leaders call attention to the racially motivated case of the 'Jena Six' in Louisiana
WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders called the US's high percentages of people in prison and racial disparities in incarceration a "shame on America" and urged dramatic steps to reverse the criminalization of large numbers of Americans...
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Hope is Not A Plan: A Letter From New Orleans, One Year Later
by Jason Neville
...Today we mark the national disgrace that we've somehow managed to call an anniversary, in which tens of thousands of American citizens were willfully neglected by their own government, starving and dehydrating in unspeakable circumstances...
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Algiers health clinic fills crucial post-Katrina niche
”Founded by Algiers residents Sharon Jones and Malik Rahim, a former Black Panther who ran for City Council in 2002 as a Green Party candidate, Common Ground's mission has been to help the city's poorest neighborhoods. Rahim put out a call for "street medics" and opened a first-aid station on Sept. 9 at the Masjid Bilal mosque in Algiers.”
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A Resolution to Reopen New Orleans' Rev. Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital NOW!
At the Green Party State Convention on Sept. 8, 2007, the resolution to reopen charity was endorsed by consensus...
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Media Advisory–September 11, 2007
What: Senate Committee Hearing
When: Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Time: 10:00 am
Where: New Orleans City Council Chamber, City Hall
”After Katrina, the residents of New Orleans East were shocked that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Mayor of New Orleans approved dumping of potentially hazardous household materials at the Chef Menteur Landfill at 166000 Chef Menteur Highway without first placing a leachate collection liner. It posed long-term threats to the ecology of the nearby Bayou Savage National Wildlife Refuge, the Maxtent Canal, and the water supply of the residential community living within 1 mile of the landfill... ”
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New Orleans:
the Making of an Urban Catastrophe
by Robert Caldwell
”Race and class divided even the sick. Tenet paid private contractors to evacuate its hospitals, and so did HCA to evacuate Tulane Hospital that it runs -- well before Charity Hospital, the region's trauma hospital whose patients are poor and overwhelmingly black, received any help. ”
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Unnatural Disaster: Louisiana's Crisis in Policy and Planning
by Brian Azcona and Jason Neville
”Many coastal communities with very similar ecologies as Louisiana have embarked on ambitious land reclamation, natural wastewater treatments, and forward-thinking environmental engineering.”
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Activists from far and wide helping N.O.
”The 'radical' activists, as Darby puts it, arrived to fill the void they felt in the 9th Ward when it came to assisting residents. Come Nov. 20, Common Ground promises to bring hundreds of volunteers into the 9th Ward to work one block at a time to scrub, repair and restore damaged homes, as part of the nationwide Road Trip for Relief.”
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