New Orleans

Parts 1 & 2: The Common Ground Collective

stencil graffiti of grenade with flower and title "Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff"

From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

The DIY Collective That Built Modern Mutual Aid

Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the anarchists and former Black Panthers that came together to set up mutual aid in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Coup de Gras Mardi Gras Festival Returns for 2023

From Center for a Stateless Society, received via email

We are very excited to announce that the annual Coup de Gras Mardi Gras Festival & Unconference will be returning this year to Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville, LA. An annual anarchist Mardi Gras celebration thrown by Krewe de Main and the Center for a Stateless Society deep in the bayous of Cajun Country, Coup de Gras is equal parts anarchist bookfair and Carnival celebration.

The View from New Orleans

from Crimethinc.

An Anarchist Nurse on What the Hurricane Means for All of Us

Days after Hurricane Ida struck southeast Louisiana as a powerful category 4 storm, hundreds of thousands are still without electrical power. The relief efforts in New Orleans and surrounding areas are just beginning, with areas outside the city’s vaunted new flood protection system faring considerably worse than those in the city. Waiting to see if the authorities will mount a belated evacuation effort, the residents who chose to stay—or were unable to leave—are doing their best to survive with no power grid, no cooling, no safe tap water, and no access to gasoline for cars or generators. Many people lost roofs to the 150 mile per hour winds.We spoke with Sasha, an anarchist nurse in New Orleans, about the situation.

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