Tag Archives: NEW ORLEANS

Radical Childcare Meeting This Saturday

24 Sep

Want to hang with some kids? Want to get into radical childcare organizing? Want to know what that even means exactly? Check out the Crescent City Childcare Collective. They’re having an open volunteer meeting this Saturday. From their blog:

Summer is over and the Crescent City Childcare Collective is officially back! Please join us, experienced volunteers & newbies alike, this Saturday to discuss radical childcare and why it rules. On the agenda:

  • Brand new Childcare Share!
  • A review of volunteer guidelines
  • Partner organization updates
  • Resources and snacks
  • Upcoming events & trainings

Saturday, September 29 at 12:30 pm, upstairs at Fairgrinds Coffee House in MidCity

Any questions or concerns? Check out our About C4 page and always please feel free to email us at ccccollective@gmail.com

xoxo

See y’all there!

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Victory!

24 Sep

Just to update, the Raging Pelican made it’s Kickstarter goal and then some! Thanks to everyone who chipped in!

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Show Em Some Love

21 Sep

Well, this is just getting ridiculous. 60 hours left and just $74 dollars to make the Raging Pelican’s Kickstarter goal.

Now, I’m not gonna lie. Hearing Kickstarter’s name usually conjurers up all sorts of resentment and hostility in me. The website has been used to fund some bullshit in the past.  If you happen to share my perspective, please take my word that the Raging Pelican is a worthy as hell cause.

In their own words:

The Raging Pelican is a two-year-and-running free print publication created in the wake of the BP oil disaster to elevate the voices of those along the Gulf Coast impacted by the destructive forces of government and industry. It is a collectively-run grassroots newspaper that advocates regional solutions to regional problems: community control of community resources.

They’re largely unfunded which means their content remains untainted by corporate or political interests.  While they have a beautiful website, they work very hard to print & distribute IRL since the communities of the Gulf Coast most closely affected by the oil disaster don’t primarily rely on digital media for their news.

Give them some money because you care about the environment, because you have a boner for hating on Big oil, because you get off on indy media, or because you pity us poor, backwards Southerners.  Much obliged, y’all.

 

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Women With A Vision targeted by arson attack

26 May

So sad to share that this week, Women With a Vision’s offices were broken into and set aflame.  No one was hurt, almost nothing was stolen but, they’ve lost nearly everything and are in need of a new space.  You can read more about it on the Louisiana Justice Institute’s blog.

I’ve posted about WWAV and their amazing work on improving the legal ramifications of sex work for poor women, WOC, and queer & transfolk in LA several times before.  I think anyone working (or even breathing) in New Orleans is aware of and grateful for this organization and I personally can’t really imagine the city without them.

I’m learning more and more that sometimes solidarity just means cash.  Please take a moment and show some with WWAV.  Let’s bring ‘em back ASAP.

Donate here.

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Thank you, Jesus!

13 Apr

Even Jesus loved sex workers! Everyone know that.

I’ve posted a few times here before about Women With a Vision’s (swoon…) NO Justice campaign against Louisiana’s charmingly backwards SCAN law. Last year, they and their legal team successfully lobbied to reduce the sentencing for folks convicted of Solicitation of Crimes Against Nature (felony) to that of regular ol’ prostitution (misdemeanor).

And, now… Ta-da! This week, a federal judge has ordered that all peeps already added to the sex offender registry under newly-castrated SCAN be removed from it in the next 30 days. No takebacks (er… appeals).

As an anarchist with zero faith in electoral politics, I choose to put my time and energy into projects that I believe are trying to circumvent that system. These projects are often informal and small in scale and occasionally oppositional to (or just resentful of) liberal politics and non-profit work.

This campaign is an excellent reminder to me that it takes all kinds. The positive difference in the lived experiences of the ladies & gents who will soon be justly removed from the sex offenders list is almost incomprehensible. Being labelled a sex offender cost them time, money, and friends; job opportunities and access to resources; the simple privilege of being allowed near churches, schools, and children. Not to mention, it left them in a position of severe vulnerability to state and sexual violence. I can’t imagine the amount of work that went into navigating the Louisiana legislature, particularly on behalf (or even as) sex workers. I am personally so grateful for Women With a Vision and their liberal, non-profit work.

Oh, happy day!

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N17 SOLIDARITY ACTIONS IN NEW ORLEANS tomorrow!

16 Nov

N17 SOLIDARITY ACTIONS IN NEW ORLEANS

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What’s poppin this week.

2 Nov

10th 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.

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Occupy New Orleans

7 Oct

Folks 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.

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#occupyNOLA

3 Oct

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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!

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Lil Wayne, it’s time to move on.

30 Aug

I’m getting kinda bored with the radio and each time you get on there to tell me “how to love” and then make creepy abortion-shaming music videos about it, I’ve missed yet another opportunity to hear 3D Na’Tee instead.

Yet-to-be-signed (for some depressingly politicized reason, I’m sure), talented, and industrious (she designed her website and shoots her own videos), Na’Tee is definitely one of the best MC’s I’ve heard in too long. She has a natural, confident flow, clever and sincere lyrics, and explores themes that most rappers either lack the depth to or simply choose to ignore.

3D Na’Tee is clearly beautiful and apparently very ambitious. While I respect women’s decisions to present themselves in any manner they so choose (I certainly do not rock the most conservative aesthetic myself), I hold a small worry that when she is inevitably signed to a major label, they will reposition their focus more squarely on her (abundant) ass, moving it away from (abundant) lyrical skill.

She describes her own flow as “immaculate.” She refers to herself as Queen of the Universe. And, she has knuckle tats: “NOLA DIVA”  3D Na’Tee is my new bad-bitch role model.

(Thanks Sophie for sharing these videos with me!)

 

 

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