6/09/2007 Community Gumbo

Listen | Democracy Now (6/05/07)

• John Perkins on "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption"

Listen | Poetry Slam (re-broadcast)

Announcements

The Parent's Guide to Public Schools

The Parents' Guide to Public Schools in New Orleans provides essential information that families need to chose and gain admission to the school of their choice.

The guide, which was produced by a consortium of non-profit organizations, and is available at public libraries, public schools, United Way, and Head Start offices, offers detailed information about 68 public schools that will operate in the upcoming school year, including nine schools that the state has not yet assigned campuses. There are 10,000 printed copies, and parents seeking a copy can also call find the guide online at nolaparentsguide.org [more]

Toy Camp

Opening Night for Toy Camp has been changed to Thursday June 14. All tickets purchased for the 15th will be honored on the 14th. The remaining performances will stay the same. All performances at the NORD Ty Tracy Theater, Gallier Halll, 1st Floor, 545 St. Charles Avenue.

Fridays, 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays, Noon.
Sundays, 3:00 p.m.

Founded in 1993 as the Summer Stages Children's Theater, we continue to provide performing opportunities for the young people of the Greater New Orleans area, now through year-round programming in partnership with the City of New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) and the Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Louisiana.

For more information, CrescentCityLights.org, 598-3800.

Music Played

Bob Dylan, "The Levee's Gonna Break," Modern Times, Sony, 2006.

Mark Bingham with A Particularly Viscious Rumor, "Fly on Home" (poem by R. Moose Jackson, Dirge for the Deluge, Piety Street Recording, 2006 (available at The Sound Cafe, 2400 Chartres Street).