Mobile to New Orleans Veterans’ and Survivors’ March
“Walkin’ to New Orleans”
March 14-19, 2006

EVERY BOMB RELEASED OVER IRAQ EXPLODES FROM MOBILE TO NEW ORLEANS.

People who thought they had clarity this time last year are confused again this year.

I’m tooling along a main thoroughfare in my little town in TN, after work, tonight. Just about an hour ago. Going the speed limit. Warm night for January. The window that works is down.

Here is the Powell’s post and a few quick review blurbs on my upcoming book: Sex & War

I regret that my publisher and I have irresolvable conflicts about the publication of “Sex & War.” I am not willing to discuss these differences publicly, so don’t wrote to ask. “Sex & War” is now available from Lulu Press.

In early September 2005 labor activists in Freedom Road met for a weekend to evaluate the momentous changes organized labor has recently faced and to identify some key challenges and opportunities for leftists working within the trade unions and other labor formations (e.g. Jobs with Justice (JwJ), workers centers, etc.). What follows is a preliminary report on these conversations. We wanted to share our thoughts on this rapidly changing situation with friends and allies as soon as possible. For this reason some of the ideas presented here have not been developed as thoroughly as we might have liked. Your comments and criticisms are welcome as we all figure out what the implications of the AFL-CIO split are.

By SCOTT BOEHM

Joyce Green died on the roof of her Lower 9th Ward home as her New Orleans neighborhood flooded during Hurricane Katrina. Helplessly, her son watched her die as the water rushed dangerously below them. Just last week he was able to return to their collapsed house on Tennessee Street for the first time, and found her skeletal remains amidst the ruins. He was able to identify them because they were wrapped in the clothes she was wearing the day she died.

From Counterpunch

By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967

With everyone from George W. Bush to McDonalds trying to pimp the memory of Dr. King, it is important to remember what he was really saying one year before he was cut down — when he was well beyond “I have a dream.” The same people, including the press, excoriated then tried to marginalize Dr. King for taking his message beyond mere legal equality and re-connecting the Black Freedom Movement with the struggle against imperialism. But King’s own words are on record, and with our help we can show each generation how this leader’s work was taking on a revolutionary character… and we can halt the attempt to domesticate his memory and the memory of this struggle… which continues to this day.

As we approach this year’s MLK weekend, I want to re-post his historic speech at Riverside Church, and to paraphrase Dr. King now, by saying:

Every bomb dropped over Iraq explodes from Mobile to New Orleans.

If I only had this one opportunity to speak my heart and mind to all the men I know and love, at once, this is what I would say. This is what burns in me, every day, to say to you, mostly white, heterosexual, and middle class men, and I say it in great urgency and desperation.

If anyone had any doubts about whether Argentina’s early repayment of
IMF loans to rid itself of its IMF shackles is A Good Thing, these can
now be put to rest.

Direct and compelling, it cuts to the heart of the matter and rings of fundamental fairness: In the aftermath of a natural disaster, those displaced ought to be able to return to their rebuilt communities, ought to be a part of the rebuilding.