Spring break and the Battle to save Black Communities in New Orleans
The Battle to save Black Communities New Orleans from the rich oil companies
African American students from across the country joint the front lines resistance movement in New Orleans
by Isiah Scott
Thousands of African Americans foot soldiers, many Black college students from all over the country have come to joint the battle to rebuild Black New Orleans brick by brick with their own hands. Led by the organizers of the Million More March on Washington, a new layer of politicize African Americans students are jointing the ranks of freedom fighters on the front lines in the ghettos of New Orleans.
The primary goal of the students is to joint with ACORN, a national organization of working-class homeowners and tents that is fighting the triage of black community in New Orleans in order to create a mass Katrina petrochemical waste dump in the Ninth Ward. Thousands of Black owned homes are being rebuilt in African American communities in the city. ACORN is allied with AFL-CIO, NACCP and other civil rights groups to take the political fight to Bring New Orleans Back (BNOB), Joseph Canizaro, the Bush Administration and other oil lobby front groups in New Orleans.
According to Newsweek March 27, the National Urban League and the NAACP is providing both financial support and political orientation. Spring break in New Olreans is also setting the stage for the up coming city elections, which are being watched by the world. These students are internationalizing the New Orleans struggle, while creating a new layer of critical support in other North American cities.
According to Newsweek a group called the Neo-Underground Railroad has enlisted students at campuses nationwide to confront record companies and Hollywood studies with letters protesting the glorification of violent, degrading stereotypes of African-Americans in music and movies.
The Neo-Underground is moving to joint the battle for Black New Orleans. According to the Newsweek article, “ Neo-Underground students are guiding residents through bureaucratic swamps—helping them to understand their legal right and assisting them in filling out stacks of insurance.”
Yet to joint the New Orleans resistance movement is the major anti- oil lobby northern law schools. The people of New Olreans are entitling to billions of dollars of compensation from the oil and chemical companies. The legal cases need to be developed and prepared by law students taskforces around the country.
After 500 years of human blood, sweat and tears investments in the city of New Orleans, its culture and spirit, the descendants of the slaves who built the city, have been given walking money and a ride to the next state and told, “You don’t live here anymore”. For the last six months, the oil companies and the Bush administration have tried to force Black American from the homes in New Orleans.
Now things are changing in New Orleans, in part do to students, turned freedom fighters.
According to the very out spoken mayor of New Orleans the city will only be allowed by the Oval Office to grow to 200,000 people from the currently level of only has a population of around 75,000 people.
That is a depopulation of 300,000 people in the city of New Orleans. Another 300,000 people already depopulated from the New Orleans metropolitan area will not return. The regional population will be reduced to 700,000 from 1.3 million people.
Less than 14 perecent of the 350,000 African Americans who once lived in New Orleans remain in the city today.
Most of the region’s depopulated segments are children’s, geriatric, unskilled, structurally unemployable, working poor people, homeless and African American families. Over one million people were made homeless and/or jobless by the flooding of New Orleans and the hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These mostly Black segments will not be allowed to return to the city of New Orleans or the region.
This economic scenario is clearly the direct consequence of the nature and design of federal funding for small business and housing. Black depopulation is de facto blackout out of mainstream media reporting of New Orleans. Keeping Blacks from returning home is a key part of the post-Katrina oil lobby plan commonly referred to as the Vision 2020 master plan.
During the past six-month Black Americans freedom fighters have fought a quiet underground war, jointed by some White students to help people return to New Olreans and rebuild their community.
Reopening Franklin High School was one of a few moral victories during the lost of 93 public schools and one major university in the city of New Orleans.
Franklin high school leaders were initially shock that the Oval Office was leaving it to die. Given it strategic importance to the public schools reform movement in New Orleans and the President’s no student left behind national policy the Franklin leadership could not believe at first it was on the Oval Office kill list. (See Nubianobserver “Operation Black Phoenix”)
After the failure of the President to send aid for a week and the federal military cordon sanitaire and ruthless forced depopulation of Ninth Ward and East Bank of sections of New Orleans by the NORTHCOM forces, most illusions were replaced with the reality of the Oval Office policy set in for the Franklin high leadership.
The high school leadership soon realized the political imperative of reopening Franklin in order to fight the nightmare of the Oval Office recovery policy. While the Oval Office and nation honor Rosa Parks, the resistance movement to save Franklin high was gaining force and freedom fighter started to engage the NORTHCOM forces in the secret battle to rescue Franklin high from the US Department of Education and Homeland Security control.
The high school students and faulty, the Franklin community, the University of New Orleans and the Black community have to date successfully fought to regain political control of Franklin High School that will reopen in January. Franklin high victory set
the stage for other inner city schools to be forced opened as trauma centers and then
later as operational schools.
Once the school for rich white children and New Orleans elite, now Benjamin Franklin High, a.k.a. Franklin Carter School is the defender of African American intellectual excellence and the brightest hope for the return of many of the 60,000 displaced Black students of New Orleans and the 100,000 displaced students of the metropolitan region.
Benjamin Franklin high school after losing it library, cafeteria, computers, sports equipment and the recently repaired gymnasium floor to flooding, mud and mold, raise again from the hit list of US Department of Education and avoid assassination, like a Black Phoenix.
Franklin high has emerged as a beacon of hope and a base of operation for the next phase of the battle to retake New Orleans from the oil companies control and the Bush Administrative. More public schools will be forced open as the Black communities recovery. The future of Black New Orleans is hanging in the balance. A critical mass of housing unit must be rebuild or the communities will be turned into toxic waste dumps saving the oil companies billions of dollars of clean-up costs.
The battle for Black New Orleans is now centered around rebuilding a critical amount of housing units in the target Black communities areas of the planned open parks, i.e. toxic waste dumps, to save the African American communities from being taken by the city and oil companies. The students and other urban freedom fighters are working right under the yet to be repaired levees the inundated 80 percent of the city.
Time is running out, last than two month remain before the start the 2006 hurricane and rainy seasons in the Gulf of Mexico. Powerful hurricanes are cycling in from Africa. (see Nubianobserver " African Roots of Katrina's Power")
African American students from across the country joint the front lines resistance movement in New Orleans
by Isiah Scott
Thousands of African Americans foot soldiers, many Black college students from all over the country have come to joint the battle to rebuild Black New Orleans brick by brick with their own hands. Led by the organizers of the Million More March on Washington, a new layer of politicize African Americans students are jointing the ranks of freedom fighters on the front lines in the ghettos of New Orleans.
The primary goal of the students is to joint with ACORN, a national organization of working-class homeowners and tents that is fighting the triage of black community in New Orleans in order to create a mass Katrina petrochemical waste dump in the Ninth Ward. Thousands of Black owned homes are being rebuilt in African American communities in the city. ACORN is allied with AFL-CIO, NACCP and other civil rights groups to take the political fight to Bring New Orleans Back (BNOB), Joseph Canizaro, the Bush Administration and other oil lobby front groups in New Orleans.
According to Newsweek March 27, the National Urban League and the NAACP is providing both financial support and political orientation. Spring break in New Olreans is also setting the stage for the up coming city elections, which are being watched by the world. These students are internationalizing the New Orleans struggle, while creating a new layer of critical support in other North American cities.
According to Newsweek a group called the Neo-Underground Railroad has enlisted students at campuses nationwide to confront record companies and Hollywood studies with letters protesting the glorification of violent, degrading stereotypes of African-Americans in music and movies.
The Neo-Underground is moving to joint the battle for Black New Orleans. According to the Newsweek article, “ Neo-Underground students are guiding residents through bureaucratic swamps—helping them to understand their legal right and assisting them in filling out stacks of insurance.”
Yet to joint the New Orleans resistance movement is the major anti- oil lobby northern law schools. The people of New Olreans are entitling to billions of dollars of compensation from the oil and chemical companies. The legal cases need to be developed and prepared by law students taskforces around the country.
After 500 years of human blood, sweat and tears investments in the city of New Orleans, its culture and spirit, the descendants of the slaves who built the city, have been given walking money and a ride to the next state and told, “You don’t live here anymore”. For the last six months, the oil companies and the Bush administration have tried to force Black American from the homes in New Orleans.
Now things are changing in New Orleans, in part do to students, turned freedom fighters.
According to the very out spoken mayor of New Orleans the city will only be allowed by the Oval Office to grow to 200,000 people from the currently level of only has a population of around 75,000 people.
That is a depopulation of 300,000 people in the city of New Orleans. Another 300,000 people already depopulated from the New Orleans metropolitan area will not return. The regional population will be reduced to 700,000 from 1.3 million people.
Less than 14 perecent of the 350,000 African Americans who once lived in New Orleans remain in the city today.
Most of the region’s depopulated segments are children’s, geriatric, unskilled, structurally unemployable, working poor people, homeless and African American families. Over one million people were made homeless and/or jobless by the flooding of New Orleans and the hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These mostly Black segments will not be allowed to return to the city of New Orleans or the region.
This economic scenario is clearly the direct consequence of the nature and design of federal funding for small business and housing. Black depopulation is de facto blackout out of mainstream media reporting of New Orleans. Keeping Blacks from returning home is a key part of the post-Katrina oil lobby plan commonly referred to as the Vision 2020 master plan.
During the past six-month Black Americans freedom fighters have fought a quiet underground war, jointed by some White students to help people return to New Olreans and rebuild their community.
Reopening Franklin High School was one of a few moral victories during the lost of 93 public schools and one major university in the city of New Orleans.
Franklin high school leaders were initially shock that the Oval Office was leaving it to die. Given it strategic importance to the public schools reform movement in New Orleans and the President’s no student left behind national policy the Franklin leadership could not believe at first it was on the Oval Office kill list. (See Nubianobserver “Operation Black Phoenix”)
After the failure of the President to send aid for a week and the federal military cordon sanitaire and ruthless forced depopulation of Ninth Ward and East Bank of sections of New Orleans by the NORTHCOM forces, most illusions were replaced with the reality of the Oval Office policy set in for the Franklin high leadership.
The high school leadership soon realized the political imperative of reopening Franklin in order to fight the nightmare of the Oval Office recovery policy. While the Oval Office and nation honor Rosa Parks, the resistance movement to save Franklin high was gaining force and freedom fighter started to engage the NORTHCOM forces in the secret battle to rescue Franklin high from the US Department of Education and Homeland Security control.
The high school students and faulty, the Franklin community, the University of New Orleans and the Black community have to date successfully fought to regain political control of Franklin High School that will reopen in January. Franklin high victory set
the stage for other inner city schools to be forced opened as trauma centers and then
later as operational schools.
Once the school for rich white children and New Orleans elite, now Benjamin Franklin High, a.k.a. Franklin Carter School is the defender of African American intellectual excellence and the brightest hope for the return of many of the 60,000 displaced Black students of New Orleans and the 100,000 displaced students of the metropolitan region.
Benjamin Franklin high school after losing it library, cafeteria, computers, sports equipment and the recently repaired gymnasium floor to flooding, mud and mold, raise again from the hit list of US Department of Education and avoid assassination, like a Black Phoenix.
Franklin high has emerged as a beacon of hope and a base of operation for the next phase of the battle to retake New Orleans from the oil companies control and the Bush Administrative. More public schools will be forced open as the Black communities recovery. The future of Black New Orleans is hanging in the balance. A critical mass of housing unit must be rebuild or the communities will be turned into toxic waste dumps saving the oil companies billions of dollars of clean-up costs.
The battle for Black New Orleans is now centered around rebuilding a critical amount of housing units in the target Black communities areas of the planned open parks, i.e. toxic waste dumps, to save the African American communities from being taken by the city and oil companies. The students and other urban freedom fighters are working right under the yet to be repaired levees the inundated 80 percent of the city.
Time is running out, last than two month remain before the start the 2006 hurricane and rainy seasons in the Gulf of Mexico. Powerful hurricanes are cycling in from Africa. (see Nubianobserver " African Roots of Katrina's Power")
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