1/12/2008 Community Gumbo

Listen | Democracy Now (1/09/08)

• Headlines for January 09, 2008
• In Upset Victories, Clinton and McCain Win New Hampshire Primaries
• New Hampshire Primary Results Fuel Talk of Most Unpredictable Presidential Race in Decades
• Barack Obama and the African American Community: A Debate with Michael Eric Dyson and Glen Ford

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• Study: Of Over 2,000 Sunday Talk Show Questions to Candidates, Only Three on Global Warming

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• Greg Palast Reports on the Battle Between Indigenous Ecuadorians and the U.S. Oil Giant Chevron

Announcements:

Plant a Tree on Arbor Day and Help Restore Wetland Forests at the
Audubon Louisiana Nature Center

When: Louisiana Arbor Day - Saturday, January 19th from 1:00pm to 4:00 pm

Where: Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, 5600 Read Boulevard, New Orleans
East (behind Joe Brown Park)

Who: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Audubon Nature Institute,
Entergy Corporation and Restore America’s Estuaries invites all
interested volunteers to participate in a community based habitat
restoration project at the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center in New
Orleans East.

What: Volunteers will assist the Coalition and other partners to plant over
1,000 trees in five acres to begin restoration of this devastated forest.

REGISTER NOW
Email Natalie Snider at nsnider@crcl.org or call (888) LACOAST
Please respond by Friday, January 18, 2008

The Audubon Louisiana Nature Center suffered considerable damage from Hurricane Katrina which devastated its interpretive center, exhibits and the 86 acres of bottomland hardwoods and bald cypress-tupelo swamp. The swamps were inundated with muddy saltwater for nearly a month and an estimated 75 percent of the forest was destroyed. The Nature Center has not reopened to the public since August 2005 and the resident and migrant wildlife that flourished in this area have not returned in large numbers.

Please volunteer on January 19th to help BRING NATURE BACK.

Music Played:

Chef Menteur, Trebuchet, The Answer's in Forgetting, Back Porch Revolution, 2007.

Margo Guryan, 16 Words, Pure Mint Recordings, 2007.

Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Carnival Time, The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans.