Cruisin Jams

ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.

ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.

ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.

ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.

ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.

ManDate: This Limpwave grunge band from Seattle, Washington features Clyde Petersen, Marc Mazique, Corey J. Brewer and Lori Goldston. With a focus on extremely depressing events and horrible trends in cultural oppression, ManDate sings about the state of affairs in the world: the murders of people of color and transgender people, the changing landscape of Seattle, the gentrification around the world and queer safety and survival.

Fit For A King summit featuring Diane Nash, This Thursday, January 17th, 2019

NOWCRJ PRESS RELEASE: New Orleans, LA, January 11, 2019—Workers from across New Orleans will converge on the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Monday to declare a national emergency over President Trump’s war against workers, communities of color, immigrants, women and the LGBTQ community. The announcement coincides with President Trump’s appearance at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention and comes as President Trump’s shutdown over the border wall is forcing hundreds of thousands of federal workers to struggle with how to provide for their families. President Trump suggested on Thursday that he may upend the democratic process and constitutional norms to raid disaster relief funding, including money budgeted for Louisiana infrastructure projects intended to protect against hurricanes. The irony of cutting disaster prevention funding to pay for a manufactured crisis on the southern border is not lost on immigrant reconstruction workers who face the threat of deportation from Trump’s anti-immigrant vendetta, Black New Orleanians watching a federal erosion of police oversight 13 years after the Danziger Bridge, or poor New Orleanians still unable to afford to return to New Orleans even as Trump cuts taxes for corporations and the rich. The declaration is being organized by the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice and the New Orleans People’s Assembly. Workers who helped rebuild New Orleans and who bore the impact of the government’s catastrophic response after Hurricane Katrina will give testimony on how Trump’s national disaster threatens their safety and economic security and will break out their clean up gear to remind the American public what happens when the response to a national disaster is negligent.

Interview recorded 11/20/2018. Today we’re speaking with Alaina Comeaux, who is Ishak and who organizes Bulbancha, Decolonized Walk of New Orleans. Alaina is an educator and began hosting the walk this Fall after hearing interest from numerous people. Interview discusses indigenous history in the area known as New Orleans, foodways, erasure, and ways of claiming space today.

From event FB page: FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION ON GENTRIFICATION AND RESISTANCE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO SOUTH AFRICA. This event is co-sponsored with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, Gallery of the Streets, and Anti-Gentrification Action Group. Not In My Neighbourhood (86 minutes, 2018), directed by Kurt Orderson, Screening with the short film Displacement in Central City New Orleans (15 minutes, 2017), directed by Trupania Bonner. Discussion after the film featuring filmmakers Kurt Orderson and Trupania Bonner, urbanist and advocate Sue Mobley, and artist and organizer kai lumumba barrow, moderated by Charmel Gaulden. NOT IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD FILM SUMMARY: Not in my Neigbourhood depicts citizens on the frontlines of intersectional struggles against gentrification in three cities. The film follows the daily struggles, trials and triumphant moments, as residents try to shape the cities they live in from the bottom up. Over 3 years South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson followed the anti-gentrification and police brutality monitoring collective Copwatch in New York, occupation movements in Sao Paulo, and gentrification in Woodstock, Cape Town. Making connections through the inter-generational stories of people fighting for the right to their city, Not in my Neighbourhood takes the viewer on a journey into the everyday lives of community members and how they experience and battle the violence of displacement on a daily basis. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/237044326 FILMMAKER BIO: Kurt Orderson is an award-winning filmmaker from Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, producing, shooting and directing magazine shows and numerous documentaries for television. He is the founder and director of Azania Rizing, a production company that aims to inspire young people through creative storytelling about Africa and African Diasporas. The company has aims at mapping the influence of African legacies around the world to facilitate international dialogue by linking local and global stories. Kurt has directed and produced multiple documentaries and narrative films that have screened at international film festivals and on various broadcasts outlets. FILMMAKER BIO: Trupania Bonner is an organizer, award-winning filmmaker, and director of Crescent City Media Group based in New Orleans, LA. For nearly ten years, Trupania has worked at the intersection of film, civic engagement and social change throughout the South. In 2013, Trupania was selected as a National Micro-Fest Fellow and as an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar in 2012 honoring Trupania’s innovative approach to community building and voter engagement. From 2008-2012, he served as Executive Director of Moving Forward Gulf Coast, Inc., a community-based organization building potential in communities of color across the Gulf Coast. Trupania currently serves on the board of Project South, the 2025 National Black Men and Boys Network, and the National Men Against Violence Network. Crescent City Media Group anchors communication projects for the Southern Movement Alliance.