Filed under: bulldozers, Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, Dissent, ehud olmert, human rights, Israel, israeli settlers, israeli soldiers, occupation, Olmert, Oppression, palestine, police brutality, property rights, Protest, War On Terror, west bank, west bank wall, Zionism | Tags: Peter Beaumont
Olmert To Quit
Jerusalem Post
July 30, 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert intends to hand his resignation letter to President Shimon Peres the day after the September 17 Kadima primary and ask him to entrust the new party leader with forming a new government, Olmert’s associates said Wednesday night.
Israeli soldier shoots 9-year-old boy
Beaumont’s Shooting Back
Filed under: bulldozers, Dissent, FEMA, hano, HUD, katrina, mississippi, new orleans, Oppression, pepperspray, police brutality, Police State, Protest, Taser Guns
Police Make Arrests, Use Stun Guns Against Protesters In New Orleans
Kris Alingod
AHN
December 20, 2007
Protesters fought with police on Thursday in New Orleans as the City Council met over whether to approve a federal plan to replace three public housing complexes with a mix-use development.
Police confronted protesters marching to the council chambers at City Hall with stun devices and chemical sprays. The chambers had a capacity of less than 300 people. Officials earlier increased security surrounding the chambers in anticipation of the protests.
Police also made arrests, and one woman had to be taken away in a stretcher after she was sprayed with chemicals, according to the Associated Press.
The Housing Authority of New Orleans last Friday postponed plans to raze three public housing complexes damaged by Hurricane Katrina because it wants city officials to weigh in on the issue of where to put low-income families who will be left homeless by the demolition. The agency, together with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), had plans to begin demolishing 4,600 government-subsidized apartments and replace them with 744 similarly subsidized homes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CYYPV8Nlek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvhp4iZFd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GPjNhVUzqk
Police, Protesters Clash in New Orleans
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TLBH8G0&show_article=1
The Council Voted 7-0 To Demolish The Lafitte Housing Development
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/20…e-tasers-on-dozens-of.html
VIDEO: New Orleans Police Attack Protesters Outside City Hall
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=608_1198186999
Filed under: bulldozers, Dissent, FEMA, hano, HUD, katrina, mississippi, new orleans, Protest
HANO to demolish New Orleans Public Housing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXJLzS4__BM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuQv4eAsvGE
Government Sends New Orleans Bulldozers to Demolish Apartments
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1460
Filed under: bulldozers, Dissent, FEMA, HUD, katrina, mississippi, new orleans, Protest
Bill Quigley: HUD Sends New Orleans Bulldozers and $400,000 Apartments for the Holidays
New Orleans Protesters Threaten War if HUD Demolishes Apartments
Bill Quigley
BuzzFlash
December 2, 2007
On the 12th day before Christmas, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to unleash teams of bulldozers to demolish thousands of low-income apartments in New Orleans. Despite Katrina causing the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War, HUD is spending $762 million in taxpayer funds to tear down over 4600 public housing subsidized apartments and replace them with 744 similarly subsidized units – an 82% reduction. HUD is in charge and a one person HUD employee makes all the local housing authority decisions. HUD took over the local housing authority years ago – all decisions are made in Washington DC. HUD plans to build an additional 1000 market rate and tax credit units – which will still result in a net loss of 2700 apartments to New Orleans – the remaining new apartments will cost an average cost of over $400,000 each!
Affordable housing is at a critical point along the Gulf Coast. Over 50,000 families still living in tiny FEMA trailers are being systematically forced out. Over 90,000 homeowners in Louisiana are still waiting to receive federal recovery funds from the Road Home. In New Orleans, hundreds of the estimated 12,000 homeless have taken up residence in small tents across the street from City Hall and under the I-10.
In Mississippi, poor and working people are being displaced along the coast to allow casinos to expand and develop shipping and other commercial activities. Two dozen ministers criticized the exclusion of renters and low-income homeowners from post-Katrina assistance: “Sadly we must now bear witness to the reality that our Recovery Effort has failed to include a place at the table … for our poor and vulnerable.”
The bulldozers have not torn down any buildings yet and New Orleans public housing residents vow to resist. “If you try to bulldoze our homes, we’re going to fight,” promised resident Sharon Jasper. “There’s going to be a war in New Orleans.”
