New Orleans march on City Hall

As someone once said,

"We have a crisis here... This is a major deal. ...They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying. ...Now get off your asses and do something."


March against violence New Orleans, tomorrow, Thursday 11 Jan 2007:

Formation: 11am at the foot of Canal Street (by the World Trade Center)
Depart: 11:30am. Process up Canal Street to Tchoupitoulas; left on Tchoupitoulas to Poydras Street. Turn right on Poydras and walk to Loyola Avenue. Right on Loyola and start a BLOCK OF SILENCE in honor of our loved ones lost to violent crime. Left on Perdido to the steps of City Hall.

March organizers webpage

Flyer/map images via adrastos

NOLA Against Crime

neworleans LJ: Lolis Elie article; now THREE marches to meet

Also latest from Harry Shearer, whose had some good New Orleans posts on his HuffPost blog

Surge

Today's secret word is: SURGE




Whenever you hear today's secret word, SCREAM REAL LOUD!




Some of us Americans are already familiar with the concept of surge.

Bush is supposed to be giving a surge of a speech. How much of Dear Leader's speech will deal with efforts to catch who actually attacked us?