New Orleans activist runs for City Council

[GeminiProgressive]

Malcolm Suber, a founder and leader of the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans, announced his candidacy for an at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council on Sept. 6. The election takes place on Oct. 20.

Suber has been in the forefront of exposing the racist criminal neglect by local, state and federal governmental officials shown toward the majority Black population during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Suber is a Katrina survivor.

Suber and the PHRF have also promoted Black-Brown unity in New Orleans, where there have been attempts by white-dominated corporate interests to drive a superficial wedge between Katrina survivors and immigrant workers.

Suber’s campaign will be representing the Reconstruction Party, founded in New Orleans Sept. 2. The following information on Suber’s candidacy comes from www.malcolmforcitycouncil.com. Suber’s campaign supporters include former Georgia U.S.

http://www.workers.org/2007/us/suber-1018/

[eyesroll]

1. Good...I sat in on a council meeting in March and was appalled.

One of the council members represented an area that wasn't too hard hit...she was completely evil to a hip-hop artist/entrepreneur who was displaced and living in Baton Rouge:

Entrepreneur (who, I'm sure you've guessed, was young and black): "I'd like to come back. But an apartment that was going for $600 before the storm is now $1800."
Council member (looking up briefly from, I don't know, her MySpace page or something): "I take it you need, what, a one-bedroom? A studio?"
Entrepreneur: "No, ma'am. I have a wife and a daughter. I'd like a three-bedroom, could live with two."
Council member: "I know of a great resource!"
Entrepreneur: (waiting)
Council member: "It's called Craig's List!"

:eyes:

[NOLALady]

2. I can't vote for Malcom

but I wish the best for him and the Reconstruction Party.
I learned that he was running when he came out to the buses leaving for Jena. Bon Chance, Malcolm!