Our New Podcast Archive Website is Ready!

As promised, we now have a new site for archiving recorded keynote addresses. (This is a separate site from our main website which generates announcements like the one you're receiving here. The announcement of our upcoming January keynote presentation will be coming out shortly.) The new site is: Gillespie Memorial Community Breakfast Podcasts. If this link doesn't work, copy/paste: http://gmcbpodcasts.blogspot.com/.

On the home page you will find our most recent keynote from the December meeting, entitled: "Winners and Losers: The Privatization of Public Ed", featuring Lee Barrios. In the sidebars, you will find various ways to access all our archived recordings, either by date, title, or speaker. Also in the sidebar you will find the option of subscribing to this new website to automatically receive new additions in your inbox, as soon as they're made available. Thanks for your participation and enjoy the new site.

The Privatization of Public Education: Winners & Losers

Featuring:

Lee Barrios M.Ed., NBCT

(Clicking her name will take you to her blog)

Founding Member, Coalition for Public Education; Louisiana state coordinator, Save Our Schools

A retired teacher and advocate for public education, Lee discussed her take on the corporatization of public schools and its effects on both students and teachers, and the forces behind the "education reform movement". She recently lost her bid for a seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to the incumbent who is in favor of this movement. Anyone who is concerned about children and their education and wants to learn more about the future of public education should listen to this recording of our meeting.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 10, 2011

Click to Listen to This Keynote Presentation

Radical Hope, Radical Challenges: The First Weeks of Occupy NOL

featuring:
 Kezia Kamenetz and Jordan Bantuelle
participants in the Occupy New Orleans movement.

Jordan Bantuelle (L), and Kezia Kamenetz

November 12, 2011

Click here to go to the archived recording of this Keynote Presentation

Election Forum

Orleans Parish Judgeships / BESE Candidates

Statewide office and State Legislative contests


Moderated by:

Dr. Rosanne Adderley

African-American Historian

and Human Rights Activist

Dr. Christine Day

Professor of Political Science

University of New Orleans


Saturday, October 8, 2011


9:30am to 10:30am – Orleans Judgeship Candidates

10:30am to 11:30am – BESE Candidates Districts 1 & 2

11:30am to 12:30pm – Statewide and State Legislative Candidates

Moving New Orleans To Being A Participatory Community

featuring:
Lucas Diaz

Director, Mayor’s Neighborhood Engagement Office

City Of New Orleans

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Are Schools Making Kids Criminals?

School to Prison Pipeline:

Current Issues in Juvenile Justice Reform

featuring:
Gina B. Womack

Executive Director and Co-Founder of FFLIC:

Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children

SATURDAY AUGUST 13, 2011

Independent Media Delivers; Big Media Sells Out

From Tahrir Square to the Danziger Bridge:

How Corporate Media has failed us and Independent Media has helped

featuring:
Jordan Flaherty

Journalist and Staffer, Louisiana Justice Institute

SATURDAY JULY 9, 2011

Iron Rail Rides Again!

The Death of a Community Space:

The Closure / Reopening of

The Iron Rail Book Collective

Jules Bentley

Long-time member, The Iron Rail Book Collective

SATURDAY JUNE 11, 2011
Click Here to Listen to this Keynote Pesentation

Demand Justice: Free the Angola 3!

"Explaining In the Land of the Free"

Details About the Angola 3

featuring:

Mwalimu Johnson

SATURDAY MAY 14, 2011

BP Disaster Keeps Killing

The Oil “Spill”

...A Year Later!

featuring:

Robert Desmarais Sullivan

SATURDAY APRIL 9, 2011

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Louisiana Congress

The 2011

Louisiana State Legislative Session

A Special Roundtable Discussion

In Memory of Russell Henderson

SATURDAY MARCH 12, 2011

NIMBY: New Orleans Kicks Poor Folks to the Curb

Challenging the Demolition of

New Orleans’

Public Housing
Featuring:

Mike Howells – C3/Hands Off Iberville

Sam Jackson – Mayday New Orleans

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2011

American Freedoms Under Attack from the Inside

What Progressives Must Do in the Coming Year

Local and National Progressive Politics in the Age of Retrenchment

Malcolm Suber

Long-time New Orleans activist 

SATURDAY JANUARY 8, 2011