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Tuesday, December 18 2007 @ 11:57 PM CST | Views: 819
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As ya’ll may know, New Orleans Network has struggled for the last year to sustain our organizational work and to maintain our website and online tools.
We have decided to officially disband New Orleans Network as an independent project. Each of the New Orleans Network team members has moved on to other
projects and jobs, and we have the capacity to continue this project. However, we will continue to be involved with convenings and strategic alliance
building work from time to time.
Much to our surprise, people have continued to post to the calendar in attempts to communicate with fellow New Orleanians about events and meetings even though we have been unable to manage this site. Clearly there is a continuing need for a community calendar, and we have been saddened to imagine loosing this much-needed tool.
We are thrilled to announce that the web tools developed by New Orleans Network will have a new home and management. Our partners and friends at Moving
Forward Gulf Coast have agreed to take on oversight of the calendar, announcement page and directory and will be repurposing these tools. Functionally, that means that you will no longer be able to post events at neworleansnetwork.org.
If you questions about the disbanding of New Orleans Network contact Aesha Rasheed at aesha.rasheed@gmail.com or Shana Sassoon at shanasassoon@yahoo.com
You can contact Moving Forward Gulf Coast at www.movingforwardgc.org or by e-mail at trap@movingforwardgc.org. You can also contact Colette Pichon Battle at cbattle@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your support and participation over the last two years.
Much love,
Shana and Aesha
The ex-NON team! |
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Saturday, July 21 2007 @ 02:52 PM CDT | Views: 1,140
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Some stuff has changed and more changes are coming soon!
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Tuesday, December 19 2006 @ 12:07 PM CST | Views: 2,270
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Foundations, Nonprofits, and the Continuing Crisis in New Orleans
By Jordan Flaherty
December 16, 2006
Fifteen
months after New Orleans became an international symbol of governmental
neglect and racism, the city remains in crisis. Students are still
without books, healthcare is less available to poor people than ever,
public housing is still closed, and infrastructure is still in
desperate need of repair. In an open letter to funders and national
nonprofits released yesterday, a diverse array of New Orleanians
declared, “From the perspective of the poorest and least powerful, it
appears that the work of national allies on our behalf has either not
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Friday, December 08 2006 @ 03:55 AM CST | Views: 1,950
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Interview with Robert “Kool Black” Horton
By Jordan Flaherty with Jacqueline Soohen
Raised
in New Orleans’ St Thomas Public Housing Development, Robert “Kool
Black” Horton is a dedicated community organizer and father, as well as
a former hip-hop artist and current gospel choir singer. He began his
organizing career as a founder of Black Men United for Change, a
grassroots community-based organization that initiated local responses
to community problems. For fifteen years, he has been a trainer with
the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a New Orleans-based
anti-racist training organization. He is currently Campaigns and
Project Director for Critical Resistance, a national prison-abolition
organization. This Saturday and Sunday, Critical Resistance is
sponsoring a Weekend of Reconciliation and Respect, featuring a keynote
address by former political prisoner, professor Angela Davis. For more
information on the Critical Resistance Amnesty Campaign, please see http://www.criticalresistance.org/katrina/
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