Green Jobs for Veterans Training Program

9 min. ~ Download
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FOR MORE INFO ON HOW TO HELP OR APPLY
http://veteransgreenjobs.org

Introducing a training program for Veterans who want to learn a sustainable skill for the new Green Economy.

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A Common Ground Mole?

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Common Ground Relief co-founder Brandon Darby wore wires for the FBI.
Article 1, Article 2, Brandon's Confession

I have a lot of thoughts about this revelation. Most importantly: Was Brandon a Common Ground Mole or get the job later? AND if he was a Common Ground mole: Why would the FBI infiltrate a grassroots humanitarian organization whose main purpose was to help the Hurricane victims of Katrina? AND since the FBI was fully aware of the vigilante whites randomly shooting black people on the streets post Katrina... why did they allow that to continue?

Related Links ::: Common Ground Relief, FREE THE TEXAS 2

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Everybody's Kitchen in the Bayou

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Everybody's Kitchen, a group of volunteer chefs who retrofitted an old school bus into a self-sustained, solar-powered kitchen that they use to travel the country feeding the homeless and providing disaster-relief meals.

Related Links ::: Everybody's Kitchen, Common Ground Relief

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Lower 9th Ward School @ Blair Grocery

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Turner takes us on a tour of the fledgling home school he is creating in the former Blair Grocery in New Orlean's lower 9th ward. It was the only grocery store in the area and the 1st black owned business in the lower 9th ward.

Related Links ::: School At Blair Grocery

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911 Wake Up Call for the Lower 9th Ward Village

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A rendition of "Wake Up", a song by "Cold Duck Complex", performed by Brad at a Benefit Concert for The Lower 9th Ward Village.

DONATE to The Lower 9th Ward Village

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Hurricane Ike: The Other Galveston

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As residents in the wealthy, transient, neighborhoods of Galveston bitch & moan about being devastated while going out and immediately reBuying their lives with their money & insurance proceeds the Other Galveston stands strong, supporting each other in their attempt to get back to their poverty level lives.

Related Links ::: Here's my very personal experience in Galveston's most elite community

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Hurricane Ike Sheltered Life: Anthony Hill

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embedding options @ BlipInterview with a victim of Hurricane Ike in the Galveston Red Cross Shelter.

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Strategies for Effective Disaster Relief

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Tony Sferlazza is a field director working with the graqssroots relief organization, Plenty International. Plenty is a not-for-profit alternative relief and development organization founded in Tennessee in 1974.

Related Links ::: Plenty International

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NOmadjik Media Bus ~ AFTER Tour

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embedding options @ Revver An invitation for independent video journalists to get on the bus and a tour of our current facilities. Check out what 11 months of progress looks like on a school bus converted to run on waste vegetable oil and deployed to facilitate independent journalism focusing on grass roots movements while giving the middle finger to corporate media.

Related Links ::: Fluxview, USA DVD CLUB,
Mobile Broadcast News

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I Love Mountains

More than 450 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. Today, 125 volunteers from more than 20 states are in our nation's capital as part of iLoveMountain's 3rd Annual Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington. They're going from office to office on Capitol Hill, telling members of Congress that now is the time to take action to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.

Related Links ::: I Love Mountains, The Mountaintop Removal Road Show

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Anita Roddick Advocacy Center

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The 1st Common Ground Relief owned facility in New Orleans has been dedicated to Anita Roddick, recently deceased owner of the Body Shop and Champion of Humanitarian and Civil Rights issues world wide.

The dedication ceremony took place Saturday, next to where the barge landed in the lower 9th ward and features Malik Rahim, CoFounder of Common Ground Collective; Kone Shakur, media relations director of Common Ground Collective; The Rebirth Brass Band, The Revolution 2nd Line and Fiyaya.

Related Links ::: Common Ground Relief, Anita Roddick, Angola 3

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Bio Liberty: Energy is Freedom

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embed it from Revver, BlipTV or U2B ~The Bio Liberty relief / redevelopment camp in Slidell Louisiana is pioneering sustainable, off the grid, weather resistant and affordable housing solutions for the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast region. The property itself was a landing/launching pad for numerous groups of grassroots hurricane relief workers and is now being developed as a model for Solar, Geothermal and BioDiesel powered communities.

Related Links ::: Bio Liberty, Plenty International, Common Ground Collective, Emergency Communities, H.A.W.C., Cultural Warrior, Mr. Dibbs

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Welcome to New Orleans

58 min. ~ Download“Welcome to New Orleans” is a 58 minute documentary about the city of New Orleans during the first year after Katrina. This film depicts ... all » the violence and racism in the impoverished American South. This is a story about the bottom-side of United States--a society that has been left to fend for itself. But more importantly, this film is about hope, in the face of overwhelming adversity. “Welcome to New Orleans” depicts the ravaged city through the eyes of Malik Rahim, a 58-year-old former member of the Black Panthers, who stayed during and after Hurricane Katrina, in order to help residents. He has become a local hero, as he has built up his grassroots organization, Common Ground Collective, over the past two years. Common Ground has served over 170,000 residents with the help of over 12,000 volunteers, who have traveled from all 50 states and 40 different countries. But there is still plenty of work to be done.

To find out more information, or to make a donation, please visit our site, CommonGroundRelief.org. Thank you.
See Also: Fluxview, USA 1st year Hurricane Aftermath Videos

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Fascism in New Orleans

The government is scheduled to demolish thousands of UNDAMAGED units of public housing in New Orleans. The city is in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. Rents have skyrocketed and thousands are homeless. Meanwhile these undamaged apartments have remained unoccupied since the hurricane due to the city boarding them up, fencing them off and arresting trespassers who hold legal leases.

These properties are slated to begin demolition on or after December 15th.
Press Conference 9AM \ MONDAY December 10th \ City Hall
History Lessons and Direct Action Training to follow the press conference.

Related Links ::: Justice for New Orleans, Defend New Orleans Public Housing, People Hurricane, St. Bernard Projects video, NOTV Colective Housing Videos

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HANO to DEMOLISH New Orleans Public Housing

HAHO and HUD are intent on destroying over 1000 people's homes. These apartments are minimally damaged and could have easily been reinhabitated immediatly after the hurricane. However, the issue of what to do with the financially challenged people of New Orleans is at the center of the Corporate land grab intended for city.
Related Links ::: St. Bernard Projuect Update April '06, NOTV Collective Housing in New Orleans Documentaries

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The NOmadjik Bus ~ Before Tour

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The NOmadjik Bus is currently under renovation. This is a before tour of the bus with a description of how the bus will be transformed and it's intended use.

Got Solidarity?

Related Links ::: Hurricane Relief Videos, 2004 Election Series,
AWOL Vets Series, Walkin' to New Orleans, Mark Storm

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H.O.P.E.- Housing Opportunities For People Everywhere ~ St Bernard Projects Update

With the support of residents, activists from Mayday NOLA established and occupied the New Day Community Center in the St Bernard Housing Developement. This has been an on going struggle with government authorities to reopen housing in New Orleans that had very little damage from the hurricane. The people who lived in these apartments have been scattered across the country when they could have easily returned within weeks of the hurricane.

People who had leases with HANO and want to join the lawsuit against HANO can sign up online at: http://publichousing.justiceforneworleans.org

Related Links ::: Justice for New Orleans, Survivors Village,
July 2006 St Bernard Housing March on The French Quarter ~ VIDEO,
April 4th 2006 St. Bernard Residents 1st attempt to force themselves back into their apartments ~ VIDEO

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Scavenging Your Own Home ~ Katrina Aftermath

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NOTV's M.Black returns to loot her former home. December 2005

Related Links ::: Post-Katrina Populist Funk, NOTV Collective

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50 Shots an a Mule ~ full movie ~ wide screen

50 Shots an a Mule
A documentary on protests for justice for Sean Bell & the fate of protests in general. Part one focuses on the march on December 16, 2006 and gives some context through interviews of people on the street. The second part of the film deals with the march on wall street on december 22, 2006. This part was partially shot with immersive 360 degree camera and focuses on police surveliance of demonstrators at the march.
27 minutes ~ full screen ~ right click & save
part 1 ~ part 2

Glass Bead Collective

Meanwhile Back in NOLA...
MLK Day: St. Bernard Residents Go through Barbed Wire Fence
in order to Clean Out Their Apartments ... AGAIN
New Orleans, LA (January 15, 2007) –With mops and buckets in hand, displaced residents of the St. Bernard Public Housing Project will go through the barbed wire fence surrounding their homes to clean and rehabilitate them.

On Monday, January 15, Martin Luther King Day, the residents will rally at 12:00pm at Bynum Drugs Store, 3838 St. Bernard Ave, and then enter the property to restore their homes at 12:30.

"Our homes are livable, and we are cleaning them out so that we can live in them," says Sharon Seans Jasper, a St. Bernard resident and organizer. "We will not let the city destroy them."

"The residents who will be cleaning their apartments have current leases and therefore have a legal right to enter their homes," says rally organizer Endesha
Juakali of Survivors Village. "However, the police may not honor this right. Therefore public housing residents will be evoking the spirit of Dr. King on this
Martin Luther King Day."

Last Spring these same people did the same thing... They're still trying to get back into their UNDAMAGED APARTMENTS. ... the injustice of this is rediculous.

Related Links ::: New Orleans IMC, April 4th, 2006 St. Bernard Clean Up Action, FIRE RAY KELLY, Sean Bell Vigil, Dark Star News, Todays NOLA Action Updates, Glass Bead Collective, Skeptical Brotha

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Police Involved in Illegal Seizure of Property

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Illegal Seizure of Files, Confidential Information at Common Ground-managed
Woodlands Apartment Complex, Algiers

New Orleans restaurant owner, Darryl Reginelli, illegally seized information
and equipment from the Woodlands Apartment Complex on the West Bank on
Wednesday morning. Complicit in this act were two NOPD officers believed to
be long-term associates of Reginelli. Complaints were made at the Public
Integrity Bureau and the District station.

Without providing a court order or any legal authority, Darryl Reginelli,
co-owner of Reginelli's pizza parlors, entered the Administrative office of
the Woodlands Apartments with the assistance of two uniformed New Orleans
Police Department officers, witnesses said. Reginelli stole multiple files,
including apartment leases, and a computer containing confidential tenant
and workforce information. The violation comes during a deeply contested
sale that pits low-income tenants against wealthy developers seeking
evictions.

"They illegally took our computers and our files and they didn't stop 'til I
came in there. I took what was in one of their hands, threw it on the floor
and the rest of them left. If it had been legal, they would have arrested
me. Again, it shows you, they knew what they were doing was illegal," said
Malik Rahim at a Woodlands Tenants meeting held Wednesday afternoon. Rahim
is a co-founder of Common Ground, the relief organization that acquired
management rights to the Woodlands in May 2006.

Reginelli and his wife, Angela, a prominent employee of Channel 6 WDSU,
previously owned the Woodlands, purchasing it in 2000 and some estimate
making millions off the property while allowing conditions to deteriorate
severely. Since taking over management in May under a gentleman's agreement,
Common Ground has provided approximately one million dollars in labor and
material improvements to the complex. While rents across the city have
skyrocketed, Common Ground management froze the rents at the Woodlands to
pre-Katrina levels, fostered a strong tenants union and ran a workers'
cooperative with paid skills training.

Throughout the past five months Reginelli made recurring promises sign a
purchase agreement with Common Ground but continually rescheduled and
cancelled appointments while seeking another buyer. "We're gonna let the
rest of the nation know what's going on," Rahim said Wednesday, referring to
the breached agreements, backdoor real estate dealings and planned mass
evictions.

Common Ground will mount an appeal to the City Council at Thursdays meeting,
and reach out to local and national organizations for support in favor of
residents' rights while pursuing appropriate legal action. "The tenants have
rights, they know their rights, and they are organized," said Soleil
Rodrigue, Legal Coordinator for Common Ground. "They will not go quietly
into the ranks of the Post-Katrina homeless."

Contact: Soleil Rodrigue, Legal Coordinator, 504-717-7324

Related Links ::: Common Ground Collective, N.O.TV Collective,
New Orleans Housing Rights Videos

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