Aid and Abet Media Strategy, Publicity, and Tour Management
Presenter Schedule:
October 2 - 6 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Puck Lo, Jen Angel
October 7 - 8 Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Puck Lo, Jen Angel, Jordan Flaherty
October 9 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Puck Lo, Jordan Flaherty
October 10 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Puck Lo, Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad
October 11 - 13 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad
October 14 - 15 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad
October 17 - 23 - Hadassah Hill, Jordan Flaherty, Jesse Muhammad
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October 2 – Chapel Hill, NC
Internationalist Books
405 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
7 p.m.
For more info: 919-942-1740 / Internationalist Books
October 3 – Greensboro, NC
The HIVE, 1214 Grove St.
(Near the Coliseum, Glenwood Library and UNCG)
7:30pm-9:30pm
More info: Isabell or 336.209.4641
October 4 & 5 – Asheville, NC
Firestorm Cafe & Books, 48 Commerce St. (next to the purple building), Downtown Asheville, NC
More info: 828-255-8115 or Kila
Oct 4: 7 p.m. Presentation
Oct 5: 12 noon “Pressed for Knowledge” workshop
Oct 5: 2 p.m.: “From Oral History to Radio Documentary” Workshop
October 7 – Atlanta, GA
Charis Books & More, 7 p.m.
More info: Kerrie
October 9 – Valdosta, GA
More info: Zachary
Hildegard’s, 101 E. Central Ave, 7 p.m.
October 10-11 – Miami, FL
The Workers Center, 6127 NW 7th Ave, Miami, fl, 33127
Oct 10: 7 to 9 p.m., Oct 11: Workshops, 1 to 5 p.m.
More info: Joseph or 305-759-8717 ext 1029
October 12 – Gainesville, FL
Civic Media Center, 1021 W. University Ave
For more info: Civic Media Center or (352) 373-0010
Workshops at 3 and 5, Presentation at 7 p.m.
October 13 – Pensacola FL
More info: Open Books
3 p.m. “Pressed for Knowledge” Workshop: University of West Florida, Room 191 in Building 36, the Communication Arts building, 11000 University Pkwy, Pensacola, FL 32514, Sponsored by The Voyager
7 p.m. Presentation, Center for Social Justice, 1603 N. Davis Hwy., Pensacola, sponsored by Movement for Change
October 14 – New Orleans, LA
7pm
Seventh Ward Neighborhood Center, 1943 Pauger St (at Urquhart), New Orleans, LA
Co-Sponsored by New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and Mondo Bizarro
More info: Jordan
October 16 & 17 - San Antonio, TX
Details TBA
More info: Graciela or DeAnne
October 18 – Houston, TX
Rice Cinema on the Rice University Campus, entrance #8, University and Stockton Drive
Workshops: 2 p.m., Presentation: 7:30 p.m.
Sponsors: Houston Media and Sedition Books
More info: Tish
October 19-21 – Austin, TX
Sponsored by Skillshare Austin
Oct 19: doors at 1, workshops 2-7:30 with dinner break. , 3121 E 12th, Austin, TX, 78702
Oct 20: 7 p.m. Monkeywrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, Austin, Texas 78751
October 22 – Denton, TX
8 to 10 p.m., J&J’s Pizza, 118 West Oak Street, on the square
Web Presence workshop, 2-3:30 pm, Texas Woman’s University library
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
STAND AND EVACUATED NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS RELEASE SHELTER CONDITIONS REPORT AND GAIN CITY SUPPORT FOR RESIDENT DEMANDS
CONTACT: SAKET SONI 504 8816610
STAND / NEW ORLEANS WORKERS' CENTER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
STAND AND EVACUATED NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS RELEASE SHELTER CONDITIONS REPORT AND GAIN CITY SUPPORT FOR RESIDENT DEMANDS
Never Again: Lessons from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation
On a rainy Monday morning, less than one week since returning home from state-run warehouse shelters, over fifty evacuees with STAND and The New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice exposed Louisiana's differential shelter policy and the sub-human condition in press conference on the door step of City Hall. Upon the release of a comprehensive reports on Louisiana's warehouse shelters, entitled "Never Again: Lesson from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation," STAND and residents demanded an end to the inhuman shelters condition and state policy that forces mother to bath their newborn in dirty portable toilet using bottle water.
As resident marched into city hall to delivering over 1500 petition signatures and the report, they demand their city Leaders Mayor Ray and Council Member Fielkow to take a public stance. What residents discovered where two different responses. Upon arrival to Mayor Ray Nagin office, residents and supporters were immediately met with close doors and arm security guards. While the mayoral staffs agreed to set up meeting with evacuees, Mayor Ray Nagin continued to avoid taking a public position by choosing to dine out at "Little Dizzy" instead of receiving New Orleans evacuees in a meeting. Still determined, Stand and New Orleans residents immediately met with City Council Member Arnold Fielkow and asked that he take a public stand on whether he support residents' demands to revoke the state differential treatment policy that forced the most vulnerable New Orleans' residents into inhumane shelter conditions.
As evacuated New Orleans residents took their demands to City Hall, they saw the beginnings of public recognition of the state's failures. Louisiana Department of Social Services Secretary Ann Williamson resigned and Governor Jindal finally publicly stated his disappointment with aspects of the Gustav Evacuation. They continue to put pressure on local and state elected officials to revoke the differential treatment sheltering policy, apologize, and involve affected residents.
The newly released report, Never Again: Lessons from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation exposes Louisiana's differential treatment sheltering policy which directs that in disasters, the state shall segregate evacuees relying on city/ state transportation in state-run warehouse shelters separate from evacuees using their own cars. Pursuant to this policy, the state advisory system directs self-transporting evacuees to separate parish, Red Cross, and church shelters with better conditions. Those who evacuate by bus are primarily the residents who do not have the economic means (or the cars) to self-evacuate, including homeless residents, public housing residents, low-wage workers, low-income renters, and their families – almost all African American.
This report's findings are based on assessments of the state-run warehouse shelters and extensive interviews of hundreds of affected residents. The findings expose startling inequity. In the Gustav evacuation, the state's differential treatment policy subjected the most vulnerable state residents to extremely inhumane shelter conditions. In each of the four state-run warehouse shelters, over a thousand evacuees were housed in a single large one-room space. Women, infants, children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled were all using the same space, without privacy, and sharing the same bathrooms – outdoor portable toilets. They had no access to running water inside the facilities. The only showers-- until close to the end of the evacuations-- were the portable toilets outside, in which mothers were washing themselves and their babies with bottled water. Residents had limited access to medical care, and no access to counselors or to news from the state about the hurricane and its aftermath.
KEY FINDINGS OF THE REPORT:
• As Gustav approached, the poorest communities had no choice but to place themselves in the hands of the state at their most vulnerable moment. They trusted that Louisiana's plan for evacuation, sheltering, and return was designed for their safety. Communities counted on the state for access to humanitarian relief in a time of disaster.
• The state's plan achieved the very opposite result. The Department of Social Services sheltering policy had profoundly inequitable impacts on the poorest evacuees – blocking them from humanitarian relief. The policy forced those who were worst off into the worst shelter conditions.
• The inequitable impacts persisted well beyond the disaster. The state policy drove residents into cumulative disadvantage: over the course of seven days, residents became poorer and sicker as a direct result of shelter treatment and conditions. As a result, residents returned home to New Orleans in greater economic disadvantage and more vulnerable that when they left.
• In large part these were residents who were already disadvantaged as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Three years after the breach of the levees, these residents were still profoundly experiencing displacement and poverty as the result of the failed governmental response to Katrina and its aftermath.
• These residents are now deeply unwilling to trust the state or to participate in future evacuations. Almost without exception, residents expressed their preference to risk staying even as a hurricane approaches rather than to evacuate into the deplorable and humiliating conditions they had to face during Gustav.
CONCLUSIONS:
• Louisiana Governor Jindal and DSS Sec. Williamson should revoke the differential treatment sheltering policy, apologize for the suffering it caused vulnerable residents, and direct DSS to work with directly affected communities and their representatives to develop a new sheltering policy.
• The state's new shelter plan must be based on principles of inclusion, access, and equity for poor and working class African Americans and for all communities in Louisiana.
• The state must include the directly affected communities-- those who have the hardest time evacuating-- in creating the plan for shelters during disaster.
• A state shelter plan must give the hardest-hit communities equal access to humanitarian relief during every phase of disaster-- because they need it the most.
• The state must ensure that the policy is equitable. The present differential treatment shelter policy plays out to proactively disadvantage poor and working class African Americans – whether by intention, or by impact. The state must instead adopt an equitable disaster policy that proactively advantages the poor by prioritizing them at the precise time that they are most vulnerable.
STAND / NEW ORLEANS WORKERS' CENTER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
STAND AND EVACUATED NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS RELEASE SHELTER CONDITIONS REPORT AND GAIN CITY SUPPORT FOR RESIDENT DEMANDS
Never Again: Lessons from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation
On a rainy Monday morning, less than one week since returning home from state-run warehouse shelters, over fifty evacuees with STAND and The New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice exposed Louisiana's differential shelter policy and the sub-human condition in press conference on the door step of City Hall. Upon the release of a comprehensive reports on Louisiana's warehouse shelters, entitled "Never Again: Lesson from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation," STAND and residents demanded an end to the inhuman shelters condition and state policy that forces mother to bath their newborn in dirty portable toilet using bottle water.
As resident marched into city hall to delivering over 1500 petition signatures and the report, they demand their city Leaders Mayor Ray and Council Member Fielkow to take a public stance. What residents discovered where two different responses. Upon arrival to Mayor Ray Nagin office, residents and supporters were immediately met with close doors and arm security guards. While the mayoral staffs agreed to set up meeting with evacuees, Mayor Ray Nagin continued to avoid taking a public position by choosing to dine out at "Little Dizzy" instead of receiving New Orleans evacuees in a meeting. Still determined, Stand and New Orleans residents immediately met with City Council Member Arnold Fielkow and asked that he take a public stand on whether he support residents' demands to revoke the state differential treatment policy that forced the most vulnerable New Orleans' residents into inhumane shelter conditions.
As evacuated New Orleans residents took their demands to City Hall, they saw the beginnings of public recognition of the state's failures. Louisiana Department of Social Services Secretary Ann Williamson resigned and Governor Jindal finally publicly stated his disappointment with aspects of the Gustav Evacuation. They continue to put pressure on local and state elected officials to revoke the differential treatment sheltering policy, apologize, and involve affected residents.
The newly released report, Never Again: Lessons from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation exposes Louisiana's differential treatment sheltering policy which directs that in disasters, the state shall segregate evacuees relying on city/ state transportation in state-run warehouse shelters separate from evacuees using their own cars. Pursuant to this policy, the state advisory system directs self-transporting evacuees to separate parish, Red Cross, and church shelters with better conditions. Those who evacuate by bus are primarily the residents who do not have the economic means (or the cars) to self-evacuate, including homeless residents, public housing residents, low-wage workers, low-income renters, and their families – almost all African American.
This report's findings are based on assessments of the state-run warehouse shelters and extensive interviews of hundreds of affected residents. The findings expose startling inequity. In the Gustav evacuation, the state's differential treatment policy subjected the most vulnerable state residents to extremely inhumane shelter conditions. In each of the four state-run warehouse shelters, over a thousand evacuees were housed in a single large one-room space. Women, infants, children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled were all using the same space, without privacy, and sharing the same bathrooms – outdoor portable toilets. They had no access to running water inside the facilities. The only showers-- until close to the end of the evacuations-- were the portable toilets outside, in which mothers were washing themselves and their babies with bottled water. Residents had limited access to medical care, and no access to counselors or to news from the state about the hurricane and its aftermath.
KEY FINDINGS OF THE REPORT:
• As Gustav approached, the poorest communities had no choice but to place themselves in the hands of the state at their most vulnerable moment. They trusted that Louisiana's plan for evacuation, sheltering, and return was designed for their safety. Communities counted on the state for access to humanitarian relief in a time of disaster.
• The state's plan achieved the very opposite result. The Department of Social Services sheltering policy had profoundly inequitable impacts on the poorest evacuees – blocking them from humanitarian relief. The policy forced those who were worst off into the worst shelter conditions.
• The inequitable impacts persisted well beyond the disaster. The state policy drove residents into cumulative disadvantage: over the course of seven days, residents became poorer and sicker as a direct result of shelter treatment and conditions. As a result, residents returned home to New Orleans in greater economic disadvantage and more vulnerable that when they left.
• In large part these were residents who were already disadvantaged as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Three years after the breach of the levees, these residents were still profoundly experiencing displacement and poverty as the result of the failed governmental response to Katrina and its aftermath.
• These residents are now deeply unwilling to trust the state or to participate in future evacuations. Almost without exception, residents expressed their preference to risk staying even as a hurricane approaches rather than to evacuate into the deplorable and humiliating conditions they had to face during Gustav.
CONCLUSIONS:
• Louisiana Governor Jindal and DSS Sec. Williamson should revoke the differential treatment sheltering policy, apologize for the suffering it caused vulnerable residents, and direct DSS to work with directly affected communities and their representatives to develop a new sheltering policy.
• The state's new shelter plan must be based on principles of inclusion, access, and equity for poor and working class African Americans and for all communities in Louisiana.
• The state must include the directly affected communities-- those who have the hardest time evacuating-- in creating the plan for shelters during disaster.
• A state shelter plan must give the hardest-hit communities equal access to humanitarian relief during every phase of disaster-- because they need it the most.
• The state must ensure that the policy is equitable. The present differential treatment shelter policy plays out to proactively disadvantage poor and working class African Americans – whether by intention, or by impact. The state must instead adopt an equitable disaster policy that proactively advantages the poor by prioritizing them at the precise time that they are most vulnerable.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tijuana, Mexico - Inmates of La Mesa state prison seized control of the facility Sunday afternoon after a 19-year-old prisoner was allegedly murdered by guards, during a mid-day search for contraband. Rioting broke out shortly there after while 1,200 visitors were in the prison. About 600 of the visitors were trapped inside as federal police surrounded the compound. 3 Prisoners were killed, and another 25 seriously injured during the unrest.
Inmates took 8 prison officials hostage and burned down many prison buildings. Three prisoners attempted to escape during the confusion but were quickly recaptured. Masked inmates hung a banner from the roof of one of the prison buildings that read in Spanish 'Justice. Guards. Assassins.' Prison guard Alex Cervantes Jaramillo was arrested, and police are looking for the prison's top commander Marco Antonio Ibarra Chavez, and his lieutenant, Daniel Ibarra Perez in connection to the murder of inmate Israel Marquez Blanco.
It took joint force of federal soldiers and riot police 12 hours to free the hostages and regain control of the facility which continued to burn into the night. Much of the prison was destroyed by the fires.
Santiago, Chile - A march in memory of the victims of the Pinochet regime ended in riots as the country of observes the 35th anniversary of his assent to power. Anarchists looted and vandalized shops including a gas station, and set fire to traffic signals and public garbage cans that were then left in the streets. Riot police with a water cannon engaged the mob who fought back with rocks, bottles, and molotov cocktails. Protesters also burned American flags, some of them homemade, to highlight the C.I.A.'s role in propping up the Pinochet regime. Thousands took part in the demonstration yesterday, 19 of whom were arrested by police.
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