NOLA homeless park being closed due to demolition of nearby buildings - lots of pics

[Kadie]

A person is silhouetted in their tent in Duncan Plaza across the street for New Orleans City Hall, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The homeless park is being closed due to demolition of nearby buildings.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)


A pair of boots are left at the entrance of a tent in Duncan Plaza across the street from New Orleans City Hall, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The homeless have been living in the park which is now being closed due to demolition of nearby buildings.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)


Homeless people try to dry clothing in front of a state office building in Duncan Plaza across the street from New Orleans City Hall, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The homeless have been living in the park which is now being closed due to demolition of nearby buildings. The building which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina is one scheduled for demolition.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)


Two people remove belongings out of Duncan Plaza across the street from New Orleans City Hall, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The homeless have been living in the park which is now being closed due to demolition of nearby buildings.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)


Melvin Jones puts on his sock as he sits in front of a van that is being used to remove homeless people from in front of City Hall in New Orleans, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The park is being fenced off due to the demolition of nearby buildings which necessitated finding the homeless people shelter.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)


Ken Cimino who had been living in a tent in Duncan Plaza across the street for New Orleans City Hall, gestures as he talks about being relocated Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. Homeless people have been living in the park which is now being fenced off due to the demolition of nearby buildings.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)


Workers erect a fence around Duncan Plaza across the street from New Orleans City Hall, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The homeless have been living in the park which is now being closed due to demolition of nearby buildings.
(AP Photo/Bill Haber)

[onehandle]

1. Bushtown, U.S.A.

They should all head up to Crawford and bunk near the Dirt Farm White House.

[Cleita]

4. This is a doable protest, but the homeless need help.

They need the young affluent people to camp with them, not only on Bush's front lawn, but everyone's front lawn and la dee da neighborhood, everyone who helped bring this about, Ronnie Reagan's house, Alan Greenspan's house and every single one of those Heritage Foundation and PNAC multi-billionaires who brought us homelessness, courtesy of Ronald Reagan.

This is the civil rights issue of our century. The homeless and poor will be pushed around as long as no one is looking at the blight over breakfast in their fancy homes. Make them look at the blight. Make it personal, but like the civil rights movement of the sixties the poor and homeless need the back up and help of activists, by the busload, just like in the sixties.

[otohara]

2. Today's Democracy Now Did Extensive Coverage

It's so easy to beat and taser the old, poor and disabled.

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/21/new_orleans_police_taser_pepper_spray

[L0oniX]

13. Democracy Now ... the news the other networks will not show you.

on Freespeech Tv FSTV and LinkTV nightly ...well worth watching.

[Gloria]

3. A national disgrace

[acmavm]

5. I hope that the powers that be who are such heartless fucks find out that

there truly is a Hell. And they've earned their enternity for the way they treated the weak, the poor, and aged, and the sick in the city of New Orleans. And may that curse descend to their offspring and their offspring's offspring.

Paybacks are a bitch. Revenge is a mother f**ker.

[dysfunctional press]

7. they know that the biblical hell doesn't exist- that's why they do what they do.

they know that there ultimately really isn't a kharmic debt to be paid...

religion is still the opiate of the masses.

[acmavm]

8. You got the proof on that one? Well don't be selfish and keep it all to

yourself. Let's see it.

[dysfunctional press]

9. actually- the burden of proof is on those that claim something DOES exist...

got any?

let's see it.

[acmavm]

10. Ah, the ususal bs copout by another that claims to have the answer to

the question of all questions.

You guys are such scam artists.

[dysfunctional press]

14. i never claimed to the answer to the question of all questions...

hell, i don't even know what the question would be. :shrug:

i do know that only a total moran would believe in the existence of a heaven, a hell, or a supreme being even, without some actual proof.

[Kadie]

6. .

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[K Gardner]

11. NOLA Anthem: "I'll be Homeless for Christmas"...

This is unconscionable. In addition to the demolition, they'll ban the homeless and do it ALL during the somewhat "Downtime" Christmas Holiday season when what LITTLE media we have are running docudramas and shopping sprees, and people are too busy to pay attention. No coincidence in timing here, IMO. :tinfoilhat:

[Kadie]

12. .

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