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Malik Rahim Speaks About the Grassroots Response to Hurricane Katrina (audio/mpeg 18.2MB)
On October 4, Malik Rahim, a longtime community activist in New Orleans and San Francisco, spoke at the Women's Building in San Francisco about the situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous response by the Bush administration and other government agencies. Malik, who lives in the Algiers community of New Orleans, discussed the grassroots community relief and rebuilding efforts underway through the Common Ground collective. (39:39 minutes)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 12:41am PDT
Nicole on her experience inside the Superdome (audio/mpeg 2.3MB)
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Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 12:41am PDT
Bill Bennett: "abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down" (audio/mpeg 1.3MB)
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 7:31am PDT
Housing After Hurricane Katrina (audio/mpeg 2.3MB)
After trying to find family members and friends, the next step for Katrina survivors has been to try to find some form of housing. (5:07 minutes / 2.4 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 3:03am PDT
Josh (audio/mpeg 1.1MB)
Josh told me that he secured an apartment in Houston for himself and his wife (2:24 minutes / 1.1 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 3:03am PDT
Milton (audio/mpeg 918.6KB)
Milton is highly critical about the way Katrina survivors are being treated (1:57 minutes / 1 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 3:03am PDT
Magnificent (audio/mpeg 1.8MB)
Magnificent is trying to get to Atlanta to be with his mother (3:55 minutes / 1.8 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 3:03am PDT
Laurence (audio/mpeg 3.2MB)
Laurence found temporary housing in Houston at Pleasant Grove Church thanks to Pastor Milton (7 minutes / 3.3 MB)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 3:03am PDT
George Brown, Operation Compassion (audio/mpeg 1.3MB)
David Brown from Katy, Texas...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 1:25am PDT
Interview from 'Dome City' with Josh from New Orleans (audio/mpeg 19.4MB)
On September 17, I spoke with Josh from New Orleans. He was sitting on a curb outside of Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Reliant Arena is a building next to the Astrodome and has been considered a part of 'Dome City.' Our interview begins with Josh explaining that he could get arrestted that night just for talking to me and giving me a recorded interview. (42:22 minutes / 19.4 MB)...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:47pm PDT
Common Ground Wellness Center in Algiers, New Orleans (audio/mpeg 9.3MB)
On September 14, I visited the Common Ground Wellness Center at 1401 Teche St. in Algiers, New Orleans and had the opportunity to speak with Noah, a volunteer medic from Providence, Rhode Island. (22:02 minutes / 9.4 MB)...
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 11:20pm PDT
Report from Bay Area caravan to New Orleans (part1) (audio/mpeg 4.9MB)
Last night ECR spoke with Natasha, who is in Louisiana along with members of the Bay Area Radical Health Collective (including physicians, EMTs, body workers) to provide supplies, health services and support. You can tune in to ECR's news show monday evenings 7-8pm on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM or click the "Radio" link up top to listen online.........
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 9:34am PDT
Report from Bay Area caravan to New Orleans (part2) (audio/mpeg 6.6MB)
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Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 9:34am PDT
Arctic oil development threatens Gwich'in people (part1): interview w/ Sarah James (audio/mpeg 9.1MB)
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Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 1:50am PDT
Arctic oil development threatens Gwich'in people (part2): interview w/ Peter Solomon (audio/mpeg 3.1MB)
Thanks to Jessica Tovar for helping arrange these interviews....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 1:50am PDT
Interview from 'Dome City' with Joseph Bijou of New Orleans (audio/mpeg 12.8MB)
On September 10, I met Joseph Bijou from the 70122 zip code of New Orleans, Louisiana. Joesph had just finished getting a haircut at the makeshift barber shop setup inside the Astrodome of Houston, Texas. (27:57 minutes / 12.8 MB)...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 7:55pm PDT
Rush Limbaugh: Racist Pig (audio/mpeg 304.1KB)
In his defense of the admministration, Limbaugh intentionally flubs N.O. Mayor Nagin's name. Give a listen and you tell me....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 8:18am PDT
Cynthia McKinney: Gov't report called for martial law if black uprising (audio/mpeg 1.8MB)
"A copy of the memo was obtained by The Herald. The scenario outlined in the Brinkerhart(sp?) memo resembles somewhat a paper Jufrida(sp?) had written in 1978 at the Army War College in Carlyle(!), Pennsylvania in which he advocated martial law in case of a national uprising by black militants."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 4:35am PDT