11/17/2007 Community Gumbo

Listen | Democracy Now (11/16/07)

• Lawmakers Strip Immunity for Telecom Companies from Surveillance Bill
• "The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America’s Future”
• Activists Converge on Washington, D.C. for Weekend of Protest Against Hate Crimes, Police Brutality

Listen | Save Our Sandwich: The First New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival

Oak Street in the Carrollton neighborhood will host the first New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival on Sunday, 11/18, from 12 to 6. A conversation with Marilyn Kearny, Program Director for the Oak Street Main Street Program, and Dr. Michael Mizell-Nelson, professor of history at the University of New Orleans.

Related:

Judy Walker, "R--E--S--P-- E--C--T ... that sandwich," NOLA.com, 11/16/07.

Po-Boy History:

Music Played:

Gene Marshall, "Jimmy Carter Says Yes!," The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood And Brush, Sentata 2003 (a tribute to displaced/misplaced former WTUL DJ Duncan Edwards to promote an informed and active electorate on this election day).

Howlin' Wolf, "Poor Boy," Howlin' Wolf: The Real Folk Blues, Geffen.

Rodd, Teri, and the M.S.R. Singers, "Richard Nixon," The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood And Brush, Sentata 2003