CulturePAC
CulturePAC
New Orleans, LA 70115
Sally
NEW ORLEANS CULTURE NEW ORLEANS CULTUREPAC
A PUBLIC ACTION COALITION
FOR ECONOMIC EQUITY
2009 SWAGGER LIKE US !!
The Gents on Super Sunday
ANNOUNCEMENT
CulturePAC has joined with POLICYLINK as a
co-signer of the Livable Community Act of 2009, S.1619, introduced by Senator Christopher Dodd. This bill would authorize the creation of a new office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to coordinate federal policies
that foster sustainable development and administer HUD’s sustainability initiatives, and would also
provide $4 billion to assist local governments in planning better and more affordable places where
people can live.
Signing on as a supporter of this act is part of CulturePAC's development of worker producer owned cooperative enterprises in New Orleans, and the beginning of the implementation of our program model, "Community Development Through Music", a creative cultural industries workforce development & entrepreneurial training program that we hope to be the jobs and small biz development program of note with the redevelopment of New Orleans public housing....developing opportunity and an equitable and sustainable economy for our region, at long last.........
JOIN CULTUREPAC, SWAGGER & WORK WITH US TO
PRODUCE POSITIVE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN NEW ORLEANS AND THE REGION ~
FOR A DIVERSE, EQUITABLE, JUST AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL ECONOMY TOWARD
REDUCING INSTABILITY, POVERTY, INEQUALITY, JOBLESSNESS. CRIME AND OTHER SOCIAL
ILLS PRODUCED BY THE CONSOLIDATION OF RESOURCES AND CAPITAL TO THE FEW
NO MORE POVERTY-MAKING
IN NEW ORLEANS!
Catch CulturePAC's Sneakin' Sal SWAGGERING on Health Care Reform on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, Friday August 14, 2009
In favor of a public single-payer option in Health Care reform? CulturePAC urges everyone with medicals bills they cannot pay to forward them to your Republican representatives in Congress and the Senate, so they have a much better idea of what working Americans are truly facing! let them and their insurance industry lobbyist buddies pay your bills - they can afford to, while you can't!
The new Summer 2009 issues of YES! magazine is all about
the changes, initiatives and policies we need to ensure a just
and sustainable economy in New Orleans and across the region
and our nation.
Please click on the YES! image below and read
some of these pieces and join CulturePAC at City Council
Economic Development committee meetings this summer and
fall in demanding social change and economic equity in New
Orleans .......
CulturePAC is keeping an eye on the impending development of anew economic development agency being formed between them Horizon Initiative and the City of New Orleans ~ There are a number of red flags with this development and CulturePAC is looking for a number of people, individuals and groups to get the word out to the public regarding this before it becomes a done deal -
IMPORTANT - THIS IS ABOUT TO BECOME A DONE DEAL!
IMPORTANT NEWS!!
economic development funds
by Bruce Eggler, The Times-Picayune
Friday June 05, 2009, 7:09 AM
Join CulturePAC in demanding transparency and inclusion in economic development.
Join CulturePAC in demanding that 30% of the seats on the board of this new economic development agency go to the poor, since that is the same percentage of people living in poverty in New Orleans.
Join us in finding out where public funds are being used and how and in making sure low-income people have a seat at the table -
More late-breaking news on this new economic development agency - this piece from New Orleans City Business magazine ~
" City's economic development partnership waits on IRS", by Greg LaRose Managing Editor.
CulturePAC will also be at all the upcoming Special Projects/Economic Development meetings:
Tuesday, July 14
Tuesday, August 11
Tuesday, September 8
The HORIZON INITIATIVE is moving forward with it's raid on the public coffers and has now garnered the necessary $400,000.00 to tap into
the first $2 million installment of $6 million over the next three years.
Read the Times-Picayune article
"Business Council backs partnership, $400,000 pledge from private sector met",
Thursday, February 26, 2009, By David Hammer, Staff writer
Within all this there has been:
- NO Public Outreach & NO Public Information offered ~ Really, What Do YOU Know about these guys???????
- NO Identification & outreach to stakeholders outside their exclusive circle, just the Business Council, the various Chambers of Commerce & Greater New Orleans Inc., all those wonderful purveyors of low-wage jobs....
- NO real PR effort, NO effort made to inform the public - this is undemocratic.
- There is no public here, except for the money they want exclusive control over - It looks like a raid on the public coffers....
- No Democratic Processes involved in the formation of this new economic development agency
- Secrecy & Deception
- The board selection process is seriously flawed....
UNITE !!!!
CLICK ON THE GANGFLAG & JOIN THE CULTUREPAC GANG TO FIGHT
FOR EQUITY AND FAIRNESS ~
GET OUR E-NEWSLETTER AND NOTICES OF MEETINGS, FORUMS, ACTIONS & EVENTS
CulturePAC is a Public Action Coalition of New Orleans area artists, musicians, culture bearers, scholars, community organizers and activists - thoughtful, thinking creative people dedicated to effecting change by participating in informing developing policies on sustainable, inclusive and fair local economies.
CulturePAC works with those fair-minded and forward thinking individuals and groups in government and business, colleges and universities, professional and community groups, neighborhood associations and others to ensure our communities are healthy and safe in every sense - Socially, physically, mentally and emotionally, spiritually, creatively, educationally and especially economically ~ as alleviating economic precariousness and insecurity, creating economic opportunity is the cornerstone to healthy productive communities.
In coming months CulturePAC will convene a series of forums to look at the changes needed to ensure our communities reach their potential and thrive. Together we'll look at how to effect the changes through a variety of avenues, from position papers and legislative actions, to the formation of alliances with a variety of other groups to develop specific economic development recommendations such as the creation of a fund for creative projects, funding for initiatives to facilitate and capitalize producer and worker owned cooperative enterprises and other social economy initiatives so all in our community can thrive and prosper together.....!!!!
Please join us and sign-up to receive our e-newsletter for news and notification of upcoming forums and other gatherings, actions and events.
CulturePAC
New Orleans, LA 70115
Sally
