Reblogged from defendlapublichealthcare:

This was a great day for Louisiana as hundreds gathered to voice the following demands to Governor Jindal:

• Expand Medicaid,
• Justice for Public Hospital Workers,
• Stop the Cuts to Education,
• Stop the Privatization of Retirement,
• Stop Laying of State Employees,
• Stop Over Testing Our Children and Undervaluing our Teachers

Participating organizations included the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, the Louisiana Association of Educators, the Louisiana Association of Retired State Employees, the East Baton Rouge NAACP, AFSCME, Coalition to Save Our State, American Federation of State, County & Municipal, Employees (AFSCME), Committee to Save Southeast Louisiana Hospital (SELH), United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO), Community Voice, Louisiana Freedmen Missionary Baptist General Association, Children’s Defense Fund-Louisiana, Advocates for LA Public Health Care (ALPH), Occupy NOLA and Occupy The Stage, Earl K. Long Medical Center employees, Equality Louisiana, Louisiana Movement, and the East Baton Rouge Democratic Executive Committee!

Learn more about how you can participate in fighting Jindal’s reckless attack on Louisiana families HERE!

Watch the livestream of this event via small affair and check out our photo album.

Rally April 30

Rally April 30

Rally April 30, Louisiana State Capital

Statewide Rally, Baton Rouge LA

In Solidarity,

Occupy NOLA – Follow us on Twitter HERE!

Check out Occupy The Stage’s Justice Fest near the entrance to Jazz Fest and not sponsored by Shell Oil!

The Occupy NOLA General Assembly supports this statewide march on Baton Rouge.

March on Baton Rouge!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11am

Enough Is Enough!!!

Assemble at the State Capitol, 11am,  March to the Governor’s mansion, DHH building, then back to State Capitol for Rally!

Expand Medicaid! Save Huey P. Long Charity Hospital! Save the Charity System and Public Healthcare Hospitals! Justice for Public Hospital Workers!

Sponsors: Enough Is Enough!!!, Coalition to Save Our State, American Federation of State, County & Municipal, Employees (AFSCME), Committee to Save Southeast Louisiana Hospital (SELH)

March Supporters: United Teachers of  New Orleans (UTNO), Community Voice, Louisiana Freedmen Missionary Baptist General Association, Children’s Defense Fund-Louisiana, Advocates for LA Public Health Care (ALPH), Occupy NOLA

For State-wide info: 318 792 6187, 318 730 3622, or 318 623 2639. Write to: P.O. Box 4041, Pineville, LA 7136  Enoughisenoughsos@gmail.com.

For Greater New Orleans info and transportation info:  Derrick Morrison  denbenphu@gmail.com 504 908 5410

It’s an issue of Life or Death!!!

Reblogged from Occupy Savvy:

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They say the wheels of justice turn slowly but indeed they are turning.

At long last, some measure of vindication for the countless legitimate protesters victimised by Auckland Council.

At the close of business today March 6th 2013 the corporate media began reporting that the High Court in Auckland has finally found in favour of Occupy Auckland.

The extremely sparse media reports (no more than…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

We, a group on New Orleans residents we are calling “Save Markey Park!,” are holding a demonstration of support for keeping part of Mickey Markey Park (700 Piety Street in Bywater) an off-leash dog park. On Sunday March 3rd from 11am-1pm we are calling on our community to assemble, with dogs, at the park. Between social media membership, on-line petitions and organizing at the park, itself, we have between 300 and 400 human members and counting. We are hoping our peaceful protest will send a message to the powers that be, that we, the people, want a say in how our public spaces are developed.

Our key points:

1. This is not people vs. dogs. Dogs parks are good for people! There are more people who own dogs than have children in this country. Dog parks are social and recreational spaces for people.
2. There is space for everyone: people with dogs, people with children, and people with neither. Three plans exist for MMP that divide the space so that everyone can be happy.
3. Communities, not developers and bureaucrats, should decide what happens to their public spaces. Through a commendable process of civic engagement, our community decided what to do with this park, and it is being disregarded by the powers that be.

Our core membership consists of a booster club who has been caring for this park, which had been abandoned by the City, for nearly 15 years. We created a playground, mowed the grass and turned this park into an integral community meeting place. This dynamic public space is being threatened by a combination of factors, mostly, the leadership at Bywater Neighborhood Association (BNA) and New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC).

We contend that the Bywater Neighborhood Association is a special-interest group that does not represent the majority of the community. They are not democratically elected, and we reject that they get to control what happens to our public spaces. Furthermore, since they obtained a sizeable grant from the Trust for Public Land to redevelop the park: 1. The BNA’s own surveys have shown that the majority of the neighborhood wants an off leash area dogs. 2. The community came out in large numbers to the planning meetings with TPL, which resulted in 3 plans that all included on off-leash area for dogs – but were unilaterally rejected by NORDC. 3. It has recently been uncovered that BNA sent secretive communication to TPL telling them that they did not support a dog park, despite the obviously strong desire for one by the constituency.

Please come out and hear what we have to say!

Reblogged from The Gulf Coast People's Convention:

It’s time. Join us Monday on the steps of the Hale Boggs U.S. Courthouse as the world turns its attention to New Orleans for the first day of the BP trial.

Restore the Mississippi River Delta has put out a call to action to Rally to Make BP Pay!

What: Rally to Hold BP Accountable
When: Monday, February 25 6:45AM – 7:45 AM (courthouse doors open at 7 AM)

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1. Occupy NOLA will stand with New Orleans Street Exchange street newspaper by responding to their calls for volunteers including but not limited to submitting content, spreading word about papers, helping with Digital Media, and more. Copies of The Exchange are available at the OTS warehouse free of charge.

2. Feb 21 – Solidarity with Jeremy Hammond Courthouse Support Rally

We cannot be in NY for the rally at 9:30 am, but we will commit ourselves to Outreach, Letter writing, and Chalkupy

3. Feb 23 Chalkupy and creative demonstrations (location TBA) in response to the following calls to action:

• International Day of Privacy

#OpBigBrother

• Solidarity with Bradley Manning

                       image from Bradley Manning Support Network

#OpManning

4. Solidarity with NOLA taxi drivers as they continue to struggle with City Hall.  (#OpWrestlemania 2014 was discussed).More to come.

5. Participate in Tent City United Day of Action April 1, 2013 in solidarity with Occupy Austin, Occupy Wall Street NY, Occupy Oakland, and all homeless people, occupiers, and people who value public space.

Working groups will meet TBA to plan creative, strategic actions. Since this is a solidarity event, we are sharing the link to the Tent City United Facebook Event and encourage people to follow Twitter hashtag #TentCity and account @TentCityUnited

Occupy NOLA’s plans:

• March of the Tentmonsters
• Make and place Tiny Tents in strategic places.
• Pitch tents in strategic public spaces
• Parade with tents in front of surveillance cameras

NOTE: These events will be listed separately on the home page of occupythestage.net within 24 hours.

6. Legal Team Liaisons will work on filing FOIA requests and handling any finances required. Please contact us via email for information if you’d like to help. info@occupyneworleans.us