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Tale of Two Sisters: Why Is HUD Using Tens of Millions of Katrina Money to Bulldoze 4534 Public Housing Apartments in New Orleans When It Costs Less to Repair and Open Them Up?

By Bill Quigley.

Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill is one of the lawyers representing thousands of families who want to return to their apartments in New Orleans. You can contact him at Quigley@loyno.edu

Gloria Williams and her twin sister Bobbie Jennings are 60 years old. They are two of the over 4000 families who lived in public housing in New Orleans before Katrina struck who are still locked out of their apartments since Katrina. Their apartments are two of 4534 apartments that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced plans to demolish. Demolition is planned even though it will cost more to demolish and rebuild many fewer units than it does to fix them up and open them. Ms. Williams and Ms. Jennings, and thousands of families like them, are fighting HUD, they want to return. (more…)

by Avery Friend

The streets were packed and Lori could barely breathe as she pushed her way through, her thick black hair sticking to the back of her neck. Her ponytail holder had slowly slipped down for nearly an hour before she had finally ripped it out and wrapped it around her wrist – they had always annoyed her, anyway. Her hair tended to remain greasy despite washing it with special shampoo six times a week and conditioning as little as possible. Something that came from living in New Orleans, she supposed, where you could step outside for the newspaper and come back in sweating.

“Lori?” her husband called, craning his head over the throngs of people. “You there?” (more…)

This Buddhist monk, of the Nipponzan Myohoji Order, was sitting outside across from the White House, chanting Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo on a beautiful day in April, 2006. We chatted - and had mutual friends in the New England Peace Pagoda - and she kindly allowed me to digitally record her lovely chanting for peace.

Copyright notice: This video is copyright 2006 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved. Videos may be copied and shown for non-profit, educational and non-commercial use, under the following conditions: no editing of video (including extraction of sound or stills), no sale of the video (by itself or as part of a compilation), attribution shall be given to the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and to Charles Jenks as creator of the video with reference to his having copyright with all rights reserved, and notice shall be given to him via email of the use of the video. Uses that may involve editing or sale require prior permission. Contact: charles@traprockpeace.org

Killing of Anthony Hayes by NOLA Police - 12/26/05

Four clips are sequenced of the scene of this killing by police on December 26, 2005. The video is jumpy, for understandable reasons. This was a very tense situation that ended in tragedy.

A question: How could this man, even with a little knife, have posed such a threat to a phalanx of heavily armed police, to justify this killing?

For photos and audio (wav files - unedited) of crowd reactions, see
http://www.traprockpeace.org/new_orleans_killing_122905/

video © 2005 Barry Scott; all rights reserved
barry413@gmail.com

MICHAEL KLARE FORESEES YEARS OF IRAQ BLOODSHED AND CHAOS

December 19, 2006

By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org

On December 5, a day before the release of the Iraq Study Group report, I interviewed Michael Klare about what he envisions happening in Iraq. (more…)

Perpetual War for Peace?
…Iraq…Iran…& the Corporate Agenda

This is a television production of Traprock Peace Center on November 3, 2006 that featured Antonia Juhasz, Rostam Pourzal, and Raed Jarrar - with Sunny Miller, Traprock’s Director, as moderator and Executive Producer.

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For more resources on stopping war with Iraq and Iran, see Traprock’s homepage.

This stop was part of a tour by Just Foreign Policy - www.justforeignpolicy.org

If you would like a DVD of this entire program, contact Traprock Peace Center at 413-773-7427.

“Perpetual War for Peace?” also featured an exhibit of 15 photographs of Iraq, Iran and Lebanon by photojournalists.

These remarkable speakers and the photo display toured throughout the Northeast, Nov. 1-12. (more…)

Anthony Arnove, author of “Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal” spoke at the plenary session of the Campus Antiwar Network’s Midwest Regional Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 22, 2006. He makes the case for immediate withdrawal, and points out the lies that led to war, and the lies that sustain the occupation of Iraq.

Hear audio of the conference and see photos at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/campus_antiwar_midwest_06.html

See also Anthony Arnove’s debate on occupation of Iraq, in Brooklyn, April 6, 2003.

Copyright notice: This video is © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved. Videos may be copied and shown for non-profit, educational and non-commercial use, under the following conditions: no editing of video (including extraction of sound or stills), no sale of the video (by itself or as part of a compilation), attributions shall be given to persons in the videos, sponsoring organizations and Traprock Peace Center; attribution shall be given to Charles Jenks as creator of the video with reference to his having copyright with all rights reserved, and notice shall be given to him via email of the use of the video. Uses that may involve editing or sale require prior permission. Contact: charlesjenks@traprockpeace.org

We have published a new, important report by James Brooks on Israel’s use of exotic weaponry against Palestinians in Gaza. It is an extentively researched work, with over 50 links to resources (given the number of links, we make it available as a pdf file, rather than printed within the blog.) Brooks explores the nature and use of DIME bombs in the context of the long term use of uranium weapons - also highly toxic (as well as radioactive) - by the US.

Download this report at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/israel_dime_bombs_121206.pdf

“Whether Israel’s new weapon is the Air Force’s DIME bomb or another similarly dreadful invention, the horrors unfolding in Gaza make it clear that “Focused Lethality” is a blood-drenched lie. It promises only a deadlier form of indiscriminate warfare.”

The DIME bomb has been under development by the US.

“US plans to explode payloads of cancer-causing genotoxic heavy metal powder “wherever and whenever necessary” may portend an escalation of a campaign currently limited to the vicinity of “hard targets” we attack with DU and NDU. Whatever we make of the intent behind these weapons, the habitual result is chemical-genetic warfare. It cannot be allowed to continue.”

John Rees, a founder of the Stop the War Coalition in the Uk, gave a dynamic speech on the need to march in opposition to war, and the necessity of matching words with deeds. He spoke at the London International Peace Conference, attended by 1400 international delegates, during December 10-11, 2005.

See full coverage of the conference, with photos, audio and video, at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/london_peace_10dec05.html

Learn more about the Stop the War Coalition at
http://www.stopthewar.co.uk

Copyright notice: This video is © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved. Videos may be copied and shown for non-profit, educational and non-commercial use, under the following conditions: no editing of video (including extraction of sound or stills), no sale of the video (by itself or as part of a compilation), attributions shall be given to persons in the videos, sponsoring organizations and Traprock Peace Center; attribution shall be given to Charles Jenks as creator of the video with reference to his having copyright with all rights reserved, and notice shall be given to him via email of the use of the video. Uses that may involve editing or sale require prior permission. Contact: charlesjenks@gmail.com

This is Al Norman’s keynote address to a rally to stop a Wal-Mart supercenter in Hadley, MA, and to protest corporate practices that hurt women, workers and the environment. Several hundred activists participated in this November 19, 2005 rally outside the Wal-Mart store in Hadley, MA.

See photos and more video at http://www.traprockpeace.org/wal-mart_protest.html

See Al Norman’s Sprawl-Busters website
http://www.sprawl-busters.com

Copyright notice: This video is © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved. Videos may be copied and shown for non-profit, educational and non-commercial use, under the following conditions: no editing of video (including extraction of sound or stills), no sale of the video (by itself or as part of a compilation), attributions shall be given to persons in the videos, sponsoring organizations and Traprock Peace Center; attribution shall be given to Charles Jenks as creator of the video with reference to his having copyright with all rights reserved, and notice shall be given to him via email of the use of the video. Uses that may involve editing or sale require prior permission. Contact: charlesjenks@gmail.com