#NOLA, 03/31/2012, NOON--MARCH AGAINST POLICE TERRORISM!

March Against Injustice! Protest Police Murders of Black Youth! Stop the Racist Mass Arrest and Incarceration of Our Youth! Demand Jobs for New Orleans Residents! Local Control of Public schools! Join us in protesting the increasing attacks on the Black community. In every aspect from the lack of living wage jobs, poor public education, lack of health care, inadequate recreational programs, police harassment, terror and murder, and lack of affordable housing the Black community of New Orleans is under an all around attack.    We must organize and unite to turn back this racist assault led by the Landrieu administration and the 1% - the rich white capitalist ruling class.  We must alert the world and the tourists, whom these local rich invite to partake of New Orleans’ Black culture, that the New Orleans Black community is cruelly oppressed and suffering.  We ask big conventions and tourists not to come to our city until the local ruling class begins to address the issues crushing the life out of the Black community. All who are democratically minded and outraged by this racist assault should join us! 12:00 NOON Saturday, March 31 CITY HALL Sponsored by the UNITED NEW ORLEANS FRONT 504-251-2201 Stand up for your rights and the future of your children!

Combat Racism Everywhere! An Open Letter to Our Fellow Residents and to Tourists in New Orleans Dear Friends, The United New Orleans Front (UNOF) is sponsoring this March Against Injustice to expose the increasing, all around racist assault against the New Orleans Black Community.  As we march more than 100,000 of our family, friends and neighbors have been prevented from returning to New Orleans since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. They have been prevented from returning because the local white ruling class has attacked the social infrastructure and denied the working class Black community living wage jobs, affordable housing, quality public education and healthcare. Black workers were not hired to do the massive clean-up after the hurricanes.  They are still shut out of the construction jobs, despite $5 billion dollars of reconstruction now going on in New Orleans.   The public housing stock has been decimated, reducing by 5000 the number of affordable housing units in New Orleans. Rents have skyrocketed forcing working class folk to work 2, sometimes 3 jobs just to keep a roof over their heads. Our public schools have been taken over by out of town charter operators seeking to make fast buck on our children.   The state of Louisiana has seized control of our local schools.  5000 teachers and support workers were fired and their union, the largest in New Orleans, was decertified.   Local Black groups that have applied for charters are routinely turned down.  Charity hospital, our public hospital, was shuttered preventing low income people access to adequate health care. And to date 70,000 Eastern New Orleans residents are still without a hospital. On top of this the New Orleans Police Department has increased its terror, brutality and murder of Black citizens. In March of this year two young Black men, Justin Sipp and Wendell Allen,  were murdered by racist New Orleans policemen.  These racial profiling cases were as egregious as the Florida vigilante murder of Trayvon Martin.   These social conditions have led New Orleans to be the national leader in the rates of incarceration and murder as many of our Black youth are forced into a life of drug dealing rather than being given an opportunity to obtain a living wage legal job. The UNOF and other organizations have been waging a constant battle to combat this racist offensive and improve the living conditions of the Black community. We will not back down!  We will secure our rights and our freedom! We share this information with you so that you know what is happening here.  We ask local folk to join our struggle.  We ask tourists to boycott our city until the local white ruling class addresses these problems.   United New Orleans Front, 1647 Gentilly Blvd., NOLA 70119, 504-251-2201