AngryBrownButch

Month: August 2007

  • New Orleans public housing residents and advocates take over the Housing Authority

    Just got word in my inbox a while ago that public housing residents and advocates took over the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HONA) earlier today, in response to the utter dereliction of duty that HONA has shown in restoring public housing in the city. From the press release about the action: Across the country…

  • ACTION ALERT: Support the Khalil Gibran International Academy

    Monday, August 20, 6pm NYC Department of Education Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers Street Between Broadway & Centre St. in Manhattan Subways: 4, 5, 6, N, R, W, M, J, 2, 3, A, C This is fairly short notice for this alert, but I want to really encourage folks to show up Monday afternoon for a…

  • Donate money for Mariah Lopez’s bail

    Gael Guevara, a collective member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, is personally organizing efforts to raise money for Mariah Lopez’s bail (see the original story and more recent update.) Note that this is a personal effort and not one being organized by SRLP or another organization; therefore, donations must be made in one of…

  • Time to switch to AMD processors?

    This is a little old and has probably made the round of the blogs already (if I could finally start keeping up with the blogosphere already, I’d know!) But being both a techie and an angry brown butch, I couldn’t possibly let this one slide without posting it. Those runners on their mark look a…

  • ACTION ALERT: Update on Mariah’s Case

    Last week, I posted an action alert for Mariah Lopez’s unjust imprisonment. I went to court last Tuesday to participate her support, but wound up having to leave after a few hours. Her case was called last, at the very end of the day; you’ve gotta wonder whether that’s just another way for the judicial…

  • ACTION ALERT: Pack the Courts tomorrow in support of Mariah Lopez

    In March of this year, I posted about Mariah Lopez, a young Latina trans woman whose case against the City of New York – as well as her very identity and existence – were being vilified in the New York Post. I’m writing about Mariah again because, almost unbelievably, she has been targeted and seriously…