10/28/2006 Community Gumbo

Democracy Now (10/26/06)

• In Echoes of Past Intervention, Bush Administration Opposes Nicaraguan Frontrunner Daniel Ortega
• Veteran Investigative Journalist Bob Parry on the Iran-Contra Scandal and the Perils of Reporting It
• New York Judge Awards $19 Million to Victims of CIA-Backed Haitian Death Squad Leader Toto Constant
• Hip Hop Artist M-1 of Dead Prez: "The Media in This Country is an Organ of the State... It Controls What We Are Hearing and Seeing"

Ray Charles, "What'd I say," Piano Blues.

Citizens demand better communication in the citywide planning process

At a planning oversight meeting this past Thursday, New Orleans residents and community representatives repeatedly expressed frustration with the failure of the city’s recovery planning management team to perform effective marketing to people still displaced outside of New Orleans, or living in communities where traditional social networks have been destroyed.

The Unified New Orleans Plan is the latest in a series of neighborhood and citywide planning efforts which have tried to place New Orleans on a path to rebuild essential public services and infrastructure. The process is being monitored and advised by the Community Support Organization, a group of various planning stakeholders and citizen representatives.

Jimmy Yancey, "How Long Blues," Piano Blues.

Robert Creeley, "The Long Road," The United States of Poetry.

Joe Calicott, "Fare Thee Well Blues."

Mississippi John Hurt, "Since I Laid My Burden Down."