I can’t exactly defend Gwen Stefani’s nouveau riche, culture-surfing ways now but, back in the day, this video just may have been my first taste of fashionable feminism. Enjoy, comrades and enjoy your weekend!
Tags: flashback fridays!
What’s poppin this week.
2 Nov10th Annual New Orleans Book Fair
Kickoff party Friday night 11/4 at the Allways on St. Claude starting at 10 pm and a book-themed burlesque show across the street at the Hi-Ho from 10 to 12.
Book Fair this Saturday 11/5 at the corner of Frenchman and Chartres from 11 am to 5 pm. Be sure to check out the Kids’ Space while you’re there!
$LADIES$NIGHT$
For those who don’t know, Ladies’ Night is a radical feminist discussion group that has been meeting almost weekly for over two years in New Orleans. We now meet every Sunday at 4 pm for a kid-friendly, BYOB, no$boys$allowed potluck and discussion. Update! Our new Contemporary Radical Feminisms readers are printed and bound and beautiful! Please shoot us an email for questions, our location, or to get a copy of the readings. (Readings schedule TBA.) ladiesnight@noboyfriends.org
Crescent City Childcare Collective
C4 provides competent and politicized childcare support to local organizations in New Orleans who are already doing amazing work. They will be Kids’ Spacing it at the Book Fair this Saturday but, if you miss em, don’t forget that there are monthly collective meetings every second Saturday of the month at Fairgrinds Coffee House in Mid City. The next one is Saturday 11/12 at 1 pm, immediately followed by a free childcare training for new volunteers at 2 pm at the same location. Check out their blog for more info.
Tags: activism, feminism, NEW ORLEANS
Occupy New Orleans
7 OctFolks in New Orleans staged a peaceful and unobstructed demonstration and march today starting at noon at Orleans Parish Prison, briefly storming City Hall, and finally ending at their encampment just outside of City Hall at Duncan Plaza. About 300 to 400 participated in the march, with about a tenth of them remaining overnight at the camp. They held a general assembly this evening, coming to consensus on two points: first, this will be a peaceful occupation, and additionally that general assemblies will be held everyday at 1 and 7 pm.
Tags: #occupyNOLA, #occupywallstreet, NEW ORLEANS
Class Action Filed Against NYC
5 Oct
The "white shirt" cops are primarily responsible for the entrapment and brutality seen during the occupation.
Hell yeah! The Partnership for Civil Justice filed a Class Action Complaint against Mayor Bloomberg, the City of New York, and the NYPD. The complaint says that the 700 protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge were entrapped by police who carried out “a pre-planned and deliberate course of false arrest”.
The complaint names 5 defendants, all residents of NYC, and includes all 700 who were arrested as part of the class action. The factual allegations in the complaint are right on the mark and include the fact that we were allowed on the bridge and given only inaudible warnings about being arrested.
You can read the full complaint here.
Tags: Occupy Wall Street
Beyond the Bridge
4 Oct
I was arrested on Saturday, but I’m still unsure of how to process everything, and unsure of what exactly I should and shouldn’t say about what happened to all of us on the Brooklyn Bridge. I can tell you that I am scared though. I am scared of going back to Occupy Wall Street and getting arrested again. I am scared that after 700 people endured the terror of being bound and locked up by the NYPD (one as young as 13) that this might all amount to nothing…just another fizzle of radical hope eventually squelched by the State.
I’m also scared that the mass arrests are the last thing we need right now. I believe that reformist tactics do not work. I believe that disruption, insurrection, and direct action are currently the only ways even the most minute changes will occur. That being said, I don’t expect Wall Street to change at all. I don’t expect our government to start taking care of us. I don’t even want that. 700 people getting arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge got everyone’s attention, but to me that’s not what’s remarkable about Occupy Wall Street.
Tags: Occupy Wall Street
#occupyNOLA
3 Oct
Had a pretty fantastic time with the F Word at Florida State last night talking about Anarcha Feminism and police brutality and creepy frat culture and TV. Thanks for having me, ladies, and keep up the good work!
I am currently en route to visit my mama in Miami, and as excited as I am, I’m also really,really bummed to be missing the kickoff of New Orleans’ #occupywallstreet solidarity march. (Ps. Here’s their first official statement.) But, just because I’m a poor planner, that doesn’t mean you should miss out, too.
Ok. Pay attention.
The initial march will form in front of Orleans Parish Prison at Tulane & Broad at 12 pm, this Thursday Oct. 6th in spirit with Occupy Together’s National Day of Solidarity. It will move to the Federal Reserve at Lafayette Square, the base being at Duncan Square at City Hall.
For more info and updates, please check the website: occupynola.org
And, lemme tell you. Babies, I’ll be home soon. And if y’all still around by Friday morning, it’s bookoo daiquiris for everyone. Hold tight!
Tags: anarchism, feminism, NEW ORLEANS, occupy nola, occupy together, Occupy Wall Street, protest
Hunger strike grows to 12,000
3 OctReposted from prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress
Numbers released by the federal receiver’s office show that on September 28th, nearly 12,000 prisoners were on hunger strike, including California prisoners who are housed in out of state prisons in Arizona, Mississippi and Oklahoma. This historic and unprecedented number shows the strength and resolve of the prisoners to win their 5 core demands and is a serious challenge to the power of the California prison system and to the Prison Industrial Complex in general.
Tags: Pelican Bay, prison, solidarity
