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Curtis Reliford and his Follow Your Heart Action Network sued Starbucks for slander after an incident in 2007 when a Starbucks manager in Santa Cruz tried to have Curtis arrested for panhandling. Curtis, and about 20 supporters, attended a court hearing on March 17th in front of Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Jeff Almquist. The case was dismissed on the premise that calling a charitable organization a "panhandler" was not going to hurt its reputation or influence how it conducts its b...

Post-Katrina reconstruction is still in progress throughout the Gulf Coast, with much of the City of New Orleans still in ruins. Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans is a documentary focused on those rebuilding the city through interviews with some of the estimated 100,000 Latino migrant laborers who have converged in the area over the past two and a half years. Despite terrible working conditions, massive fraud, a housing crisis, severe harassment by law enforcement, and very limi...

Saturday, Jan. 6th 7:30pm RCNV (515 Broadway) On August 29, 2006, Hurricane Katrina attacked the Gulf Coast of the United States. A Category-5 hurricane, Katrina destroyed entire towns and left a trail of destruction in her wake. But the impact was magnified by city, state, and federal government negligence, and in no city was there a better example of the government’s failure than in New Orleans, where thousands were killed—both by water and bullets—and hundreds of thousands were left behi...

Survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the People's Organizing Committee are organizing a Come Back Home Campaign for the week of the one-year anniversary of the devastating hurricane. Displaced survivors who are living all over the country will gather in Washington, DC from August 24th through 26th. They will pitch tents and camp out on the federal government to demand their right to return home. On August 27th and 28th, these survivors will be pitch their tents in Baton Rouge, LA, in front...

On Tuesday, Februrary 7th, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Bay to Gulf Solidarity gathered at the FEMA office in downtown Oakland at 1111 Broadway (at 11th St.). They “evicted" FEMA for its failure to provide long term housing for Katrina survivors, and for obstructing residents' right to return to their homes in the Gulf. Photos February 7th was the date on which FEMA planned to cut off the funding that many of the 3300 Katrina evacuees in the Bay Area have relied on to pay for temporar...

The Common Ground Bay Area Caravan to New Orleans is preparing for its November 16th send-off. Thirty people have committed to volunteering to go on the Roadtrip for Relief to rebuild the 9th Ward in Louisiana. A number of events are taking place around the Bay Area to analyze what happened during and after Hurricane Katrina, and to prepare for a more just future. Sunday, November 13th will be the final meeting for volunteers who are interested in participating in any way in the Bay Area ca...

Bay Area members of the Common Ground Collective are giving two San Francisco report backs from their recent trip to New Orleans. On Sunday, October 2nd, they spoke at 7:00pm at Station 40 in San Francisco. On Sunday, October 9th at 7:00pm, they will speak at Artists’ Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @ 21st St., San Francisco (wheelchair accessible). Members of a medical and health care caravan who just returned from working in Algiers with the Common Ground Collective will share...

On September 9th, Bradley from Santa Cruz Indymedia and two other west coast IMCistas arrived in Houston, Texas to help provide independent media coverage from Houston and other communities. Their first stop was the Astrodome and surrounding buildings. There are about 10,000 people now living in these buildings, which are now being called "Dome City." The scene in the Astrodome is almost unreal. There are thousands of people sleeping in close proximity. Many people are trying to get in con...

Hurricane Hits Florida: On Wednesday August 24th Katrina became a Category 1 hurricane, as it crept toward an overnight landfall on Florida's densely populated southeast coast. Two people were killed by falling trees after it made landfall along the Miami-Dade and Broward county line between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach The death toll had risen to seven by Friday August 26th as South Floridians coped with local floods, sweeping power outages and forests of toppled trees. ...

You go down to the west bank FEMA office, you find out they're predicting 27 feet of water in New Orleans, in New Orleans, where a million people live, 27 feet of water in a category four storm... W. J. TAUZIN -- MARCH 21, 1996 U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the French under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. The site was select...