“We demand that the government severely punish the killers who caused the collapse of the levees. Please everyone sign the petition so we can find out the truth.” The crowd grew more agitated. Some parents said local officials had known for years that the levees were...
FoodMusicJustice Archive
About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
FoodMusicJustice
New Orleans?
Citizens take up burden of storm relief “Andrew Jack reports from the capital on how help from individuals for the victims is in sharp contrast to the response from the ruling regime. …Ordinary citizens are taking up the task of providing relief to the regions worst...
More harassment of backstreet culture
It’s a mystery – to the Times-Picayune at least – why police harassment of backstreet culture in New Orleans continues, and who is behind it and why. First, in every city that I know, the mayor runs the police because it’s the mayor who appoints the police chief. One...
Indians ‘a comin’
On my last night in New Orleans I went to see Indians ‘a comin’ I didn’t post this earlier because I learned later that night after also seeing Papa Mali that my mom had passed away. Dorothy McCarthy – (October 1, 1923 – May 1, 2008) Interestingly enough, my mom...
NoLa Rising defined and defended
“NoLa Rising is a post-Katrina art campaign encouraging people in all faubourgs of Greater New Orleans to publicly display works of art, regardless of how simple or untutored it may seem to be, for the purpose of rebuilding and restoring the human spirit in our city....
Thelonious Monk