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I guess I am going to have to miss this HIP HOP CAUCUS' MARCH ON GRETNA in Louisiana on
Monday, November 7, 2005!
Come March with Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. (Hip Hop
Caucus), Kim Gandy (NOW), Van Jones (Ella Baker Center
for Human Rights), Ron Daniels (Center for
Constitutional Rights/Institute for the Black 21st
Century), Curtis Muhammad (Community Labor United),
Rev. Tony Lee (Ebenezer AME Church), Cousin Jeff
Johnson (BET/People for the American Way), College
Students, Community Activists, led by People of New
Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina; join the
People’s Committee for Relief & Oversight, NOW, UP for
Democracy, & the Hip Hop Caucus, as we March on
Gretna!!!!!!
Date: Monday, November 7, 2005
Time: Rally starts at 10:00 a.m.
Location: Convention Center, 900 Convention Boulevard,
New Orleans
March over Crescent City Connection Bridge to Gretna's
Oakridge Mall
PRESS CONFERENCE for this event will be held in
Washington, D.C. on November 2 with representatives of
sponsoring organizations (details forthcoming)
We will march over the Crescent City Connection Bridge
to Gretna's Oakridge Mall where buses were to
transport evacuees to safety - a destination people
from New Orleans never reached.
In the aftermath of Katrina, New Orleans authorities
directed people to evacuate the city by crossing the
Crescent City Connection Bridge which spans the
Mississippi River linking New Orleans to the west bank
city of Gretna.
However, if you were black or in the company of
blacks, you were blocked from evacuating New Orleans
by armed Gretna police with guard dogs. Under orders
from Gretna Police Chief Arthur S. Lawson to seal off
the bridge and deny safe passage to evacuees, Gretna
police officers fired shots in the direction of the
crowds and held others at gunpoint. It should be noted
that the people of Gretna had been evacuated, the
Gretna officials were concerned about the protecting
the property of their suburban community.
On Monday, November 7, 2005, the Hip Hop and
progressive community will cross that bridge!
We march with our fellow citizens displaced by Katrina
to reclaim the right to cross that bridge to Gretna,
and in crossing that bridge in the name of the rights
to safety and self-determination, to racial and
economic justice - we March in support of the People's
control of the reconstruction process in the Gulf
Coast. And we will keep marching until we reclaim this
democracy nationwide in the elections on November 7,
2006! NEVER AGAIN WILL PROPERTY RIGHTS TRUMP PEOPLE’S
RIGHTS!
WE WILL MARCH FOR FREEDOM IN NEW ORLEANS, USA! WE WILL
MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ON NOVEMBER 7, 2005! AND WE
WILL KEEP MARCHING, ADDING TO OUR NUMBERS, UNTIL WE
TAKE BACK AMERICA ON NOVEMBER 7, 2006!
The Hip Hop Caucus and UP for Democracy will also be
organizing a work brigade on Sunday, November 6, 205
to assist New Orleans families in the "recovering and
retrieving" - assisting in the clean-up efforts now
underway.
This march is endorsed by Black Leadership Forum,
Center for Social Justice, Cities for
Progress/Institute for Policy Studies, Clergy & Laity
Concerned About Iraq, Code Pink, ColorofChange.org,
Common Ground, Community Labor United, Ella Baker
Center for Civil Rights, Global Crisis Coalition,
Global Exchange, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance,
Healthcare NOW!, Hip Hop Caucus, Independent
Progressive Politics Network, League of Pissed Off
Voters, National Coalition for Black Civic
Participation, National Network for Immigrant &
Refugee Rights, New Orleans Network, National
Organization for Women, People’s Alliance for
Community Empowerment, People’s Hurricane Relief &
Reconstruction Oversight Committee People’s Institute
for Survival & Beyond, Progressive Democrats of
America, Project South, Rainbow Push, National
Progressive Youth & Student Organization, Quality
Education as a Human Right, Rebuild Green, Rebuilding
Louisiana Coalition (NOLA), Rebuild Hope NOW, Saving
Our Neighborhoods, Southwest Workers’ Union,
TransAfrica Forum, United for Peace & Justice, United
Houma Nation of Louisiana, Urban Heart.
But such is life.
In other news...
can i grow and do this here? History
Cocoa beans in a cacao podChocolate and cocoa are made from the beans of the cacao tree, which apparently originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America. The tree was introduced into Central America by the ancient Maya, and was cultivated in Mexico by the Toltecs and later by the Aztecs.
Cocoa was an important commodity in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Spanish chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés relate that when Moctezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, dined he took no other beverage than chocolate, served in a golden goblet and eaten with a golden spoon. Flavored with vanilla and spices, his chocolate was whipped into a froth that dissolved in the mouth. No less than 50 pitchers of it were prepared for the emperor each day, and 2000 more for nobles of his court.
Chocolate was introduced to Europe by the Spaniards and became a popular beverage by 1700. They also introduced the cacao tree into the West Indies and the Philippines. It was used in alchemical processes, where it was known as Black Bean.
Today, most of the world's crop of beans is grown in equatorial Africa, especially on the Gold Coast, and a small amount in South America, chiefly Brazil. The use of chocolate, cocoa and other products is world-wide. Belgium has the highest per capita consumption of cocoa at 5.5 kg, ten times the world-wide average ([1]).
Prices for the commodity reached a five year high in November 2004; this is because exports from Côte d'Ivoire are likely to be cut due to escalating violence in the region.
Cacao pods in a hand-coloured photo from circa 1903[edit]
Harvesting
A pod has a rough leathery rind about 3 cm (1½ inch) thick. It is filled with slimy pinkish pulp, sweet but inedible, enclosing from 30 to 50 large almond-like seeds or "beans" that are fairly soft and pinkish or purplish in color. As fast as they ripen, the pods are removed with a curved knife on a long pole, opened with a machete, and left to dry until taken to fermentation.
There the beans are removed and piled in heaps, bins, or on gratings where, during several days of "sweating", the thick pulp ferments until it thins and trickles off. The quality of the beans, which originally have a strong bitter taste, depends upon this sweating. If it is overdone they may be ruined; if underdone they have a flavor like raw potatoes and are liable to mildew.
Then the beans are spread out, constantly raked over, and dried. On large plantations this is done on huge trays, either outdoors by sunshine or in sheds by artificial heat. However, thousands of tons from smaller producers are dried on small trays or on cowhides. Finally, the beans are trodden and shuffled about (often using bare human feet) and sometimes, during this process red clay mixed with water is sprinkled over the beans to obtain a finer color, polish, and protection against moulds during shipment to factories in the United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and other countries. About 3,000,000 tonnes of cocoa are grown each year. The Netherlands is the leading cocoa processing country, followed by the U.S.
[edit]
Producing chocolate
ChocolateTo make 1 kg (2.2 pounds) of chocolate, about 300-600 beans are processed. In a factory, the beans are washed and roasted. Next they are de-hulled by a "nibber" machine that also removes the germ. The nibs are ground between three sets of stones until they emerge as a thick creamy paste. Cocoa powder is made from this "liquor" by removing part of its fatty oils (the "cocoa butter" used in confectionery, soaps, and cosmetics), either with a hydraulic press or by using the Broma process. With starch and sugar added, the liquor is churned and beaten in a "Conges" machine to produce sweet chocolate.
Adding an alkali produces Dutch process cocoa powder, which has less acidity and is what is generally available most everywhere in the world except the United States. Regular or nonalkalized cocoa is lighter in colour and sharper in flavour. It is acidic, so when added to recipes with an alkaline ingredient like baking soda, the two react and leaven a product. Dutch processed cocoa is less acidic, darker and more mellow in flavour.
and yeah, i think that's it for now...
well maybe abbreviated notes from the past few days:
all of my friends with interests in simplicity and subverting the dominant system need to visit my friends out in clinton... just recently had a really good day out there.
biking in BR should be done more frequently, beware scary trucks hidden beyond the levee with creepy whiskered, fish-hooked handed woman and son.
beware those with danger as a middle name, or maybe just be aware.
let go.
shower, rest and get to work on time? why is this so hard?
back to work. ;)
Monday, November 7, 2005!
Come March with Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. (Hip Hop
Caucus), Kim Gandy (NOW), Van Jones (Ella Baker Center
for Human Rights), Ron Daniels (Center for
Constitutional Rights/Institute for the Black 21st
Century), Curtis Muhammad (Community Labor United),
Rev. Tony Lee (Ebenezer AME Church), Cousin Jeff
Johnson (BET/People for the American Way), College
Students, Community Activists, led by People of New
Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina; join the
People’s Committee for Relief & Oversight, NOW, UP for
Democracy, & the Hip Hop Caucus, as we March on
Gretna!!!!!!
Date: Monday, November 7, 2005
Time: Rally starts at 10:00 a.m.
Location: Convention Center, 900 Convention Boulevard,
New Orleans
March over Crescent City Connection Bridge to Gretna's
Oakridge Mall
PRESS CONFERENCE for this event will be held in
Washington, D.C. on November 2 with representatives of
sponsoring organizations (details forthcoming)
We will march over the Crescent City Connection Bridge
to Gretna's Oakridge Mall where buses were to
transport evacuees to safety - a destination people
from New Orleans never reached.
In the aftermath of Katrina, New Orleans authorities
directed people to evacuate the city by crossing the
Crescent City Connection Bridge which spans the
Mississippi River linking New Orleans to the west bank
city of Gretna.
However, if you were black or in the company of
blacks, you were blocked from evacuating New Orleans
by armed Gretna police with guard dogs. Under orders
from Gretna Police Chief Arthur S. Lawson to seal off
the bridge and deny safe passage to evacuees, Gretna
police officers fired shots in the direction of the
crowds and held others at gunpoint. It should be noted
that the people of Gretna had been evacuated, the
Gretna officials were concerned about the protecting
the property of their suburban community.
On Monday, November 7, 2005, the Hip Hop and
progressive community will cross that bridge!
We march with our fellow citizens displaced by Katrina
to reclaim the right to cross that bridge to Gretna,
and in crossing that bridge in the name of the rights
to safety and self-determination, to racial and
economic justice - we March in support of the People's
control of the reconstruction process in the Gulf
Coast. And we will keep marching until we reclaim this
democracy nationwide in the elections on November 7,
2006! NEVER AGAIN WILL PROPERTY RIGHTS TRUMP PEOPLE’S
RIGHTS!
WE WILL MARCH FOR FREEDOM IN NEW ORLEANS, USA! WE WILL
MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ON NOVEMBER 7, 2005! AND WE
WILL KEEP MARCHING, ADDING TO OUR NUMBERS, UNTIL WE
TAKE BACK AMERICA ON NOVEMBER 7, 2006!
The Hip Hop Caucus and UP for Democracy will also be
organizing a work brigade on Sunday, November 6, 205
to assist New Orleans families in the "recovering and
retrieving" - assisting in the clean-up efforts now
underway.
This march is endorsed by Black Leadership Forum,
Center for Social Justice, Cities for
Progress/Institute for Policy Studies, Clergy & Laity
Concerned About Iraq, Code Pink, ColorofChange.org,
Common Ground, Community Labor United, Ella Baker
Center for Civil Rights, Global Crisis Coalition,
Global Exchange, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance,
Healthcare NOW!, Hip Hop Caucus, Independent
Progressive Politics Network, League of Pissed Off
Voters, National Coalition for Black Civic
Participation, National Network for Immigrant &
Refugee Rights, New Orleans Network, National
Organization for Women, People’s Alliance for
Community Empowerment, People’s Hurricane Relief &
Reconstruction Oversight Committee People’s Institute
for Survival & Beyond, Progressive Democrats of
America, Project South, Rainbow Push, National
Progressive Youth & Student Organization, Quality
Education as a Human Right, Rebuild Green, Rebuilding
Louisiana Coalition (NOLA), Rebuild Hope NOW, Saving
Our Neighborhoods, Southwest Workers’ Union,
TransAfrica Forum, United for Peace & Justice, United
Houma Nation of Louisiana, Urban Heart.
But such is life.
In other news...
can i grow and do this here? History
Cocoa beans in a cacao podChocolate and cocoa are made from the beans of the cacao tree, which apparently originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America. The tree was introduced into Central America by the ancient Maya, and was cultivated in Mexico by the Toltecs and later by the Aztecs.
Cocoa was an important commodity in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Spanish chroniclers of the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés relate that when Moctezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, dined he took no other beverage than chocolate, served in a golden goblet and eaten with a golden spoon. Flavored with vanilla and spices, his chocolate was whipped into a froth that dissolved in the mouth. No less than 50 pitchers of it were prepared for the emperor each day, and 2000 more for nobles of his court.
Chocolate was introduced to Europe by the Spaniards and became a popular beverage by 1700. They also introduced the cacao tree into the West Indies and the Philippines. It was used in alchemical processes, where it was known as Black Bean.
Today, most of the world's crop of beans is grown in equatorial Africa, especially on the Gold Coast, and a small amount in South America, chiefly Brazil. The use of chocolate, cocoa and other products is world-wide. Belgium has the highest per capita consumption of cocoa at 5.5 kg, ten times the world-wide average ([1]).
Prices for the commodity reached a five year high in November 2004; this is because exports from Côte d'Ivoire are likely to be cut due to escalating violence in the region.
Cacao pods in a hand-coloured photo from circa 1903[edit]
Harvesting
A pod has a rough leathery rind about 3 cm (1½ inch) thick. It is filled with slimy pinkish pulp, sweet but inedible, enclosing from 30 to 50 large almond-like seeds or "beans" that are fairly soft and pinkish or purplish in color. As fast as they ripen, the pods are removed with a curved knife on a long pole, opened with a machete, and left to dry until taken to fermentation.
There the beans are removed and piled in heaps, bins, or on gratings where, during several days of "sweating", the thick pulp ferments until it thins and trickles off. The quality of the beans, which originally have a strong bitter taste, depends upon this sweating. If it is overdone they may be ruined; if underdone they have a flavor like raw potatoes and are liable to mildew.
Then the beans are spread out, constantly raked over, and dried. On large plantations this is done on huge trays, either outdoors by sunshine or in sheds by artificial heat. However, thousands of tons from smaller producers are dried on small trays or on cowhides. Finally, the beans are trodden and shuffled about (often using bare human feet) and sometimes, during this process red clay mixed with water is sprinkled over the beans to obtain a finer color, polish, and protection against moulds during shipment to factories in the United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and other countries. About 3,000,000 tonnes of cocoa are grown each year. The Netherlands is the leading cocoa processing country, followed by the U.S.
[edit]
Producing chocolate
ChocolateTo make 1 kg (2.2 pounds) of chocolate, about 300-600 beans are processed. In a factory, the beans are washed and roasted. Next they are de-hulled by a "nibber" machine that also removes the germ. The nibs are ground between three sets of stones until they emerge as a thick creamy paste. Cocoa powder is made from this "liquor" by removing part of its fatty oils (the "cocoa butter" used in confectionery, soaps, and cosmetics), either with a hydraulic press or by using the Broma process. With starch and sugar added, the liquor is churned and beaten in a "Conges" machine to produce sweet chocolate.
Adding an alkali produces Dutch process cocoa powder, which has less acidity and is what is generally available most everywhere in the world except the United States. Regular or nonalkalized cocoa is lighter in colour and sharper in flavour. It is acidic, so when added to recipes with an alkaline ingredient like baking soda, the two react and leaven a product. Dutch processed cocoa is less acidic, darker and more mellow in flavour.
and yeah, i think that's it for now...
well maybe abbreviated notes from the past few days:
all of my friends with interests in simplicity and subverting the dominant system need to visit my friends out in clinton... just recently had a really good day out there.
biking in BR should be done more frequently, beware scary trucks hidden beyond the levee with creepy whiskered, fish-hooked handed woman and son.
beware those with danger as a middle name, or maybe just be aware.
let go.
shower, rest and get to work on time? why is this so hard?
back to work. ;)