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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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The New Orleans Survivor Council

The New Orleans Survivor Council

"We are the members, organizers, participants and supporters of the New Orleans Survivor Council and its organizing committee, the People’s Organizing Committee. Collectively, we have been practicing a ‘bottom-up’ grassroots organizing and decision-making approach to empowering the poor black survivors of the Katrina tragedy. In the wake of this horror, we have been presented with some amazing opportunities for transformation and for testing out this important ‘bottom-up’ approach. We have put the needs and interests of the people first in everything we do. And, even with almost no financial resources, we have been remarkably successful. We have:

  • organized public housing residents to re-occupy their homes
  • organized former renters to take over blighted houses, repair them and move in their families
  • taught the building trades to survivors so they can rebuild their homes and be qualified for skilled employment
  • organized low-income homeowners to rebuild their homes, with the help of hundreds of volunteers
  • attempted to rebuild schools, churches, clinics, day care centers -- and the levee surrounding the 9th ward
  • organized an anti-slavery movement which has challenged unscrupulous contractors and built unity between blacks and immigrants
  • begun an international solidarity movement, having just visited Venezuela and received a visit from Venezuelan officials
  • begun a leadership training institute to train poor blacks in the skills needed to run and manage their own organizations and to implement large development projects
  • organized residents of the concentration camps where 175,000 poor black residents are still living trapped in trailers in more than 20 locations outside the city . . . "

"We ask you to help us think this through, to offer your insights, your voice, your contacts, and your networks."

To read the more about The New Orleans Survivor Council click here

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