December 15th, 2012
Thanks to ACV members, Judge Willard Community Service program, lowernine.org, St. Aug School, and Sheriff Marlin Gusman, A Community Voice cut down 15 overgrown lots during a two week period right before Christmas. These are pictures from our cleanup event on December 15th.
November 10th, 2012
A Community Voice held a press conference and protest at the site of the still shuttered Armstrong Elementary School. Right now, the school is being land-banked by the Orleans Parish School Board for future sale or demolition. There are no plans to save this historic building and rebuild this school into something that is useful for the community.
October 11th, 2012
The Lower 9th Ward community group came together to discuss upcoming actions, events and make plans for future campaigns.
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Over 100 residents of NOLA East came out to a candidate forum for the candidates running for District E City Council and School Board to ask them questions are where they stand on the proposed plasma gasification facility (garbage incinerator), recovery and economic development, and rebuilding our schools, parks, playgrounds and other needed infrastructure.
Saturday, September 27th
Members came together to ask that a house be torn down on Tupelo Street that has been blighted since Katrina and is in eminent danger of collapsing on the house next door. In fact, the neighbor next door cannot get homeowners’ insurance because of the condition of this house.
September 13th, 2012
A Community hosts candidate forum for all District E City Council candidates to find out their positions on the hot button issues of Sun Energy (garbage incinerator), slow recovery in District E, and jobs for residents.
Please visit our Youtube site for complete footage of the forum.
August 25th, 2012
Volunteers who are students from Xavier University spent their volunteer day working with A Community Voice conducting outreach into low to moderate income communities. They informed residents of our environmental justice campaign against a garbage incinerator coming into New Orleans and collected over 200 signatures on a petition against this garbage incinerator.
August 11th, 2012
A Community Voice members host a meeting with newly elected City Council President Stacy Head in the Lower 9th Ward to discuss community concerns and develop a list of top priorities to work on for District E. Councilmember Jackie Clarkson and Interim Councilmember Ernest Charbonnet were also in attendance.
A Community Voice members are working on repairing homes, cutting down vacant lots, getting blight torn down and more in District E. Join us!
July 3rd, 2012 A Community Voice members protest for jobs in the Lower 9th Ward. Residents came out to picket for jobs because recovery projects such as the streetscape improvements to N. Claiborne and St. Claude Ave. use out of town companies who fail to comply with Section 3 laws and hire residents from the community.
This is the first of many such protests to win jobs for residents.
June 28th, 2012 Over 200 residents came out to the A Community Voice Hire NOLA jobs forum at First Grace United Methodist Church on Canal Street against the issue of jobs for residents. Billions of recovery dollars have flooded New Orleans. Yet, local minority contractors and local residents are denied the opportunity to apply for contracts and gain jobs in the recovery effort. There are no training programs or enforcement on companies to hire local residents. Time and time again these good-paying jobs have gone workers outside the State. ACV is building up a database of employees and fighting for jobs for all residents. If you need a job, call ACV at 504-941-2852 to get in our jobs database and be invited to the next meeting. Together, we can win jobs!
