http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/ Handing New Orleanians a Megaphone Since 2005 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:14:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/#comment-98823 People Get Ready » Blog Archive » Taking pepper spray for the cause Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:02 +0000 http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/#comment-98823 [...] Did the intentional acts of protestors to provoke pepper spray barrages and taser shots help or harm the interests of the public housing residents they purported to represent? Is it a successful negotiation strategy to call the people with whom one has to negotiate “gangsters”? There are legitimate questions to ask about the effectiveness of the agitators in rebutting arguments made by HUD that their remains plenty of available public housing units, and I’m not aware of any valid criticisms of the good plans created by residents of Lafitte to re-develop their complex. [...] [...] Did the intentional acts of protestors to provoke pepper spray barrages and taser shots help or harm the interests of the public housing residents they purported to represent? Is it a successful negotiation strategy to call the people with whom one has to negotiate “gangsters”? There are legitimate questions to ask about the effectiveness of the agitators in rebutting arguments made by HUD that their remains plenty of available public housing units, and I’m not aware of any valid criticisms of the good plans created by residents of Lafitte to re-develop their complex. [...]

]]> http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/#comment-98690 Northeasterner Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:25:07 +0000 http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/#comment-98690 From what I just read over the mainstream AP media wires, it wasn't only one woman who was roughed up. From what I just read over the mainstream AP media wires, it wasn’t only one woman who was roughed up.

]]> http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/#comment-98651 Frolic Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:37:27 +0000 http://humidcity.com/2007/12/20/housing-and-violence/#comment-98651 It's worth noting that woman pepper sprayed and dragged away was Jamie Laughner. She's an anarchist and advocate from D.C. Google her name. She seems to get roughed up by the police everywhere she goes (Miami, D.C.). I'm not saying our police were perfect here (I really don't know), but if someone is always getting strong armed by policed you've got to wonder if she's not trying to provoke the action. It’s worth noting that woman pepper sprayed and dragged away was Jamie Laughner. She’s an anarchist and advocate from D.C. Google her name. She seems to get roughed up by the police everywhere she goes (Miami, D.C.). I’m not saying our police were perfect here (I really don’t know), but if someone is always getting strong armed by policed you’ve got to wonder if she’s not trying to provoke the action.

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