An #OccupyNOLA General Assembly.
By the way — for those of you who haven’t noticed: people from #OccupyWallStreet have clearly made their way to Boston, D.C., and Baltimore. There may be no leadership, but the nationalization of this clearly has an organizational element to this — in whatever degree we might want to say.
For context, here’s Frontline posing the question — What happened on the Danzinger Bridge?
Rebirth Brass Band — Do Whatcha Wanna.
Five Links:
- Bordwell’s great book “Ozu and the Poetics of the Cinema” is downloadable free in a beautiful pdf file. http://j.mp/bWAdAp
- The first-ever recorded video of Ghandi, circa 1947 http://bit.ly/dwLrmx
- In Haiti, Tent Cities Are Becoming Rape Epicenters: http://bit.ly/cjN16Y
- Still homeless from Haiti earthquake, thousands fight forced evictions http://bit.ly/csAYl9
- A post-Katrina school needs help getting books. Pitch in: http://readthisbook.us/2010/06/28/help-a-post-katrina-school-re-make-its-library/
Sweet Emma Barrett - I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll.
Also: Louis’ take.
via Mashable:
If you’re a Tumblr user, you can log on today and donate to a myriad of groups: Save Our Gulf, the National Audubon Society or the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Donating will also unlock the Limited Edition Black Dashboard as an account preference — and Tumblr will match every donation it receives.
Five Links:
- Video: Obama Gives Oil Spill Update From New Orleans. (June 4th.)
- Clinton Library releases scores of Kagan documents bearing relation to her work with the Domestic Policy Council.
- COP Hearing on TARP and other assistance to AIG.
- Interview with African/French-lit blogger Chez Gangoueus.
- Due to rising student debt, a growing number of universities are stepping up with “no-loan” aid pledges: http://bit.ly/9jdhVg
Five Links:
- What was it like to be a writer on Firefly?
- UK launches a ‘conservation credit.’
- Mardi Gras costume designs from 1873.
- Feminism’s work is not finished, say panelists at the Radcliffe Institute http://ow.ly/17xS1g
- Motel postcards, a photoset.
If you want to register to help clean up the Gulf Coast, go here.
On May 2, Gov. Jindal requested that federal authorities and BP provide three million feet of absorbent boom, five million feet of hard boom and 30 ‘jack up’ barges. Of that, less than 800,000 feet of hard boom has arrived - less than a fifth of the request. About 140,000 feet of that hard boom is sitting waiting for BP to tell contractors where to take it.
“It is clear we don’t have the resources we need to protect our coast, we need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply,” Jindal said today. “Let’s be clear, every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies.”
6th Ward All Stars at Tuba Fats Tuesday.
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New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings - Corina, Corina. (Live, 2010.)
Country Fried - City of New Orleans.
Hurray for the Riff Raff - A Slow Walk. (Live at WTUL.)
Panorama Jazz Band - New Orleans Shout.
