In Historic March, Tens of Thousands Gather from Across Nation to Demand Justice for Jena Six
Rev. Al Sharpton: Jena Rally Marks “Beginning of a 21st Century Rights Movement”
Live from Jena: Two Mothers of the Jena Six React to Outpour of Support for their Sons
The Jena Six Story: A Look at the Origins of the Case
Listen | All Colors with Love and Respect: ERACE of New Orleans
ERACE New Orleans fosters racial harmony through civil dialog. Annette McGee is the organization's secretary, and trades off as a facilitator.
Meetings:
Saturdays 10 to 11:30 AM WRBH Building 3606 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115
Tuesdays 6 to 7:30 PM 618 City Park Avenue (across from Delgado) New Orleans, LA 70119
Screening of the movie American History X Co-sponsored by the New Orleans Lyceum and ERACE of New Orleans Saturday, 9/22, 7:00 p.m. 618 City Park Avenue
Music Played:
Joe Calicott, "Down to the River Jordan," Ain't a Gonna.
Dave Brubeck, "You'll Never Know," Indian Summer, Telarc 1997.
The 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and Poetry As Insurgent Art
Listen | Torbjörn Törnqvist: Linking slushy Greenland to swampy Louisiana -- A bumpy ride into the greenhouse future?
Professor Torbjörn Törnqvist arrived in New Orleans to teach at Tulane University just days before Hurricane Katrina, evacuating from the city less than a day after he arrived. Deciding to "stay the course," rather than "cut and run," he recently addressed the 2007 class of Tulane freshmen in a lecture drawing a comparison to a climate change event 8200 years ago, and the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, providing evidence that global warming is worse now than was originally anticipated when the first predictions were made in 1990. Törnqvist argued that Hurricane Katrina accented both danger and opportunity for Louisiana in an era of climate change. As the one of first areas of the world experiencing the consequences of climate change, he called upon students to use their educations to accept the challenge of solving the climate change crisis in whichever discipline they choose.
Tens of thousands of Luciano Pavarotti's fans paid their respects to the operatic tenor in his hometown of Modena, Italy. The beloved singer died at the age of 71 on Thursday after fighting pancreatic cancer for a year.
Music Played:
Guitar Slim and Jelly Bean, "Snowing And Raining Blues," Blues Roots, Tomato Music, 1978.
Muddy Waters, Forty Days and Forty Nights, Chess Records.
Announcements:
FRERET ART * FARMERS * FLEA MARKET Saturday, September 8 12 Noon – 5 P.M. Freret and Napoleon 40+ Vendors * Live Music * Giveaways * Great Food
Listen | The Path to Destruction: Two Years After Katrina, Cleanup and Recovery Far From Complete
Listen | "The Resilience of the People Is What Carries This City Forward": Poet Sunni Patterson & Hip-Hop Artist Truth Universal Reflect on New Orleans Two Years After Katrina
Listen | Carl Brauner: Surviving the Flood (re-broadcast)
Carl Brauner weathered Hurricane Katrina inside his State Street Drive New Orleans home. He details his experience wading out of his house, the camaraderie he discovered in the city as he escaped the flooding and made his way downtown, his confrontation with Gretna police on the way out of town, and how Hurricane Katrina has provided him with an opportunity for positive growth despite the personal property losses he suffered. Some of the experiences he relates are similar to other disaster accounts reported by Rebecca Solnit. This interview was conducted on 3/12/06.
Note: Because the interview was anchored when it was originally broadcast, and the whole audio was uploaded without anchor comments, continuity may be difficult to understand in a couple of places -- Carl helps a police officer push a car out of the floodwater, Carl crosses the CCC bridge, and Carl arrives in Baton Rouge where he saw video of the extent of flooding for the first time.
