Features General Membership Meeting Tomorrow –Brodie L Good morning, comrades! Tomorrow, our General Membership will convene for the first GM of the new year. Your Local Council has been working to bring democratic improvements to our meetings that our growing membership deserves. The agenda is still being set, but we will definitely discuss our chapter…
Features No More Secret Police, No More Surveillance State —Aaron Z Border Patrol and ICE have occupied Minneapolis, where they’re terrorizing hospital visitors, throwing flashbangs at cars full of kids, and dining at a Mexican restaurant and arresting their hosts after. But ICE still has a year-round presence in New Orleans, currently operating out of…
Features Law Enforcement is Trained and Equipped to Orchestrate Your Death –Aaron Z Police manufacture situations to use force, often lethal. A 2013 CBP Use of Force Review found that agents shoot at fleeing cars out of “frustration” after they “intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional…
Features Ojos: Spread Information, Not Fear When we do our Ojos work, we’re careful to get accurate information and avoid causing panic. We make sure that we provide an exact date and time, an exact location, and that we describe what we see. And whenever you can, get in touch with the eye witness who…
Features Poem from a Comrade —M.L. Banks In Response to “On Leftist Gun Ownership” Dear Comrades, Last week, a New Orleans DSA comrade expressed an opinion that leftists “no longer have the luxury of choosing not to own firearms” lest we “let them hold a monopoly on violence.” I disagree with this take for several…
Features Tomorrow’s General Meeting is a Social at Urban South –Brodie L Holiday greetings, Comrades! In lieu of a General Meeting tomorrow, we will be having our annual Holiday Party at noon at Urban South! We were at Urban South last year, and it was a wonderful time filled with laughs, jokes, and camaraderie. Urban…
Features Tonight at 7:00: Digital Security With Eyes on Surveillance News broke this week that government dumbasses are tracking New Orleanians’ online activity as part of their stupidly named Catahoula Crunch operation. Fuck you. Get a real job. The government has a metrowide blanket of real time surveillance cameras, supplemented by an illegal network of…
Features We Are Going to Win CBP and ICE have started their New Orleans operation in earnest. Trump and Landry announced a National Guard deployment down here later this month. They are moving as comrades in Chicago and Charlotte told us to expect: leaving Belle Chasse early in the morning, targeting where they expect to…
Features Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP and ICE: ICE Watch/Film the Police/Know Your Rights Tonight at Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 S Dupre St. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are staging this week for two months of terror in New Orleans. In LA, Chicago, and Charlotte, we’ve seen aggressive abductions at…
Features Socialist Night School: Organizing Against CBP and ICE Tonight at the Healing Center, 2372 St Claude #204, starting at 7:00 pm. Federal immigration police have attacked Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. We’ve seen aggressive abductions at schools, stores, workplaces, churches, and in residential neighborhoods. Greg Bovino is bringing more CBP and ICE to New…
