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• Hurricane chaos: Capitalism fails in a crisis
• Meat monopolies ripped off McDonald’s and everybody else
• Elections at a time of growing war budget and shrinking wages
• The U.S. war drive against China, what it means for workers
• U.S. to be ready for war on China by 2027: Navy Chief
• Capitalism’s climate catastrophe: How fossil fuel giants fueled the storm crisis
• From Cuba to Palestine: The enduring spirit of Che Guevara inspires global resistance
• Cuba faces nationwide blackout, activists renew calls for an end to the blockade
• No more war! Young working-class activists expose U.S. imperialism
• Sales of stolen Palestinian land must be stopped!
• Protesters assaulted as illegal Palestinian land sales continue in NY and NJ
• Baltimore banner drop for Palestine & Lebanon
• U.S. cities join world in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon
• Biden-Harris administration escalates war drive against Iran
• Free after 59 days: Detained protesters released in Nigeria
• Beginning of a historic presidency in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
• Nobel Peace Prize winner: Gaza like Japan after U.S. atomic bombs
• Promise of change in Puerto Rico
• Inicio de una histórica presidencia en México, Claudia Sheinbum Pardo
• Promesa de cambio en Puerto Rico

The process of re-energizing the SEN was then initiated, gradually restoring power to certain areas of the country with the goal of expanding and connecting them to eventually reach the thermoelectric plants and restart them. However, a new total disconnection thwarted the progress that had been made.

“Today at 6:15 a.m., the National Electrical System experienced a total disconnection. The Electric Union is working on restoring it,” the state-owned Electric Union (UNE) reported on social media.

On Friday morning, the SEN collapsed due to a failure at the Guiteras thermoelectric plant, one of the country’s main power generators. This caused a complete blackout across the country. The situation had already been labeled as an “energy emergency,” as President Miguel Diaz-Canel had said on Thursday.

This week, the supply of electricity has been reduced by up to 50 percent on some days. As a result, authorities halted all non-essential state labor activities starting Friday, including ministries and schools. Diaz-Canel also stated that “there will be no rest” until electric service on the island is restored and emphasized that the situation is “tense and complex.”

Due to the U.S. blockade, which restricts the influx of foreign currency to Cuba, the SEN is in a very precarious state because of fuel shortages and frequent failures in thermoelectric plants, which have been operating non-stop for over four decades.

Power outages have been common for several years, but since the end of August, the situation has worsened, reaching levels similar to the worst moments, such as in 2021 and 2022.

In recent years, the Cuban government has rented several floating power plants to alleviate the lack of generating capacity. Frequent blackouts are damaging Cuba’s economy, which contracted by 1.9 percent in 2023 and is still below the levels of 2019.

Venezuela Expresses Unconditional Solidarity with Cuba Amid Energy Crisis

Oct. 18 — Late last night the COSCO Dockers Union in Piraeus Port, ENEDEP, alerted its members and the unions of the area that a container transferring bullets to Israel was to arrive in Piraeus port so as to be shipped to the Murderer-State of Israel. Immediately the dockers and the local unions BLOCKED the port and did not allow the container to enter the ship “Marla BULL.” The Unions and workers called openly the working class of the area to come to the port and stop the crime saying “The dockers state it clearly, we will not stain our hands with the blood of the people” The massive, immediate action of the people lasted all night, FORCING THE SHIP TO DEPART WITHOUT THE WEAPONS! The Unions, that are also preparing strikes for Collective Contracts demanding better wages, confirmed that class unions struggle goes hand in hand with solidarity with the peoples and steadfast, in practice opposition to imperialism! THE PEOPLE WILL WIN! WORKERS HAVE THE POWER! FREE PALESTINE!

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Source: Labor Today

Halt the aggression in Gaza, withdraw and release our heroic prisoners from the occupiers’ jails

With all the pride, dignity, and honor, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, mourns to our Palestinian people, to our entire nation, and to the free people of the world. One of the noblest and bravest men, a man who dedicated his life for Palestine and gave his soul for the sake of Allah on the path to its liberation. He was true to Allah, and Allah was true to him, choosing him as a martyr alongside his fellow martyrs:

We mourn the great national leader, the Mujahid Martyr Brother Yahya Al-Sinwar (Abu Ibrahim), Head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Commander of Al-Aqsa Flood Battle

He rose as a heroic martyr, advancing and never retreating, wielding his weapon, engaging and confronting the occupation army at the frontlines. He moved between all combat positions, steadfast and stationed on the honored land of Gaza, defending the land of Palestine and its holy sites, inspiring the spirit of endurance, patience, steadfastness, and resistance.

Our great people, our Arab and Islamic nations, and the free people of the world:

The martyred leader Yahya Al-Sinwar lived as a mujahid, and from his youth, he carved his path within the ranks of Hamas, engaging in its resistance operations. During 23 years of imprisonment, he triumphed over the zionist jailer. (https://t.me/PalestineResist/286) After his release in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal (https://t.me/PalestineResist/9470), he continued his contributions, planning and fighting until his eyes witnessed, on October 7, 2023, the day of the great flood (https://t.me/PalestineResist/13228) that shook the depths of the entity, exposing the fragility of its supposed security. The heroic epics of our people and the valor of our victorious resistance followed until he attained the highest rank and the noblest medal, ascending as a witness and a martyr, content with the jihad and sacrifice he offered.

The martyr leader Yahya Al-Sinwar followed in the footsteps of great martyred leaders, including the founding martyr Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (https://t.me/PalestineResist/24405), Dr. Abdelaziz Al-Rantisi, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/6825), Al-Maqadmeh, Abu Shanab, Jamal Mansour, Jamal Saleem, the martyred leader Ismail Haniyeh, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/51032) and his deputy Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/42038), along with the caravan of martyrs from all our leaders and people. We affirm that these sacrifices will continue to illuminate our path and drive us to more resilience and steadfastness. Hamas remains committed to the promise of its founding leaders and martyrs until the aspirations of our people are fully realized: the complete liberation and return and the establishment of the Palestinian state on the entire national soil with Al-Quds as its capital, by Allah’s will. This will become a curse upon the invading occupiers who are strangers to this land.

Our great people, our Arab and Islamic nations, and the free people of the world:

The martyrdom of Brother Leader Yahya Al-Sinwar, along with all the leaders and icons of the movement who preceded him on the path of honor, martyrdom, and the project of liberation and return, will only strengthen Hamas and our resistance, making us more determined and steadfast in following their path, honoring their blood and sacrifices. A movement that offers its leaders and members as martyrs in defense of the rights of its people is a noble, genuine movement deeply rooted in its people.

To those lamenting the captured occupiers held by the resistance, we say: they will not return except with the cessation of aggression on Gaza, its withdrawal, and the release of our heroic prisoners from the occupation’s jails.

We continue in the path of Hamas, and the spirit of Al-Aqsa Flood will remain a living flame in the hearts of our people.

We remain faithful to your pledge, Abu Ibrahim, and your banner will never fall but will remain high and proudly raised.

Peace be upon you, Abu Ibrahim, the humble, devout, and pious man.
Peace be upon you, the prisoner.
Peace be upon you, the fighter.
Peace be upon you, the martyr.
Peace be upon you, for history will record that you wrote the first line in the war of liberation and the end of the occupation.

May Allah have mercy on you and grant you the highest place in paradise with the prophets, the truthful ones, the martyrs, and the righteous, and what excellent companions they are.

And it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Friday: 15 Rabi’ al-Akhir 1446 AH

Corresponding to: October 18, 2024 CE

Source: Resistance News Network

Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 3 — Detained End Bad Governance protesters released on bail after spending 59 days in detention are shown in this video.

This movement began on July 29 of this year using the hashtags #EndBadGovernance and #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria in response to worsening conditions in the country. 

President Bola Tinubu’s government has implemented austerity measures (cutting social services and fuel subsidies, etc.) at the direction of the neocolonial World Bank, dominated by the U.S. and its imperialist junior partners like the U.K., Germany, and Japan.   

As of Oct. 16, Nigeria’s inflation rate was 32.70% based on the Consumer Price Index. 

The World Food Program says that in June-August, 26.5 million Nigerians faced acute hunger, up from 18.16 million at the end of 2023, an increase of 31.5%. 

Instead of working to meet the needs of the people, the government has responded to the protests with repression. State security forces killed at least 21 people and arrested over 1,000. 

The working-class people of the U.S. have more in common with the struggling Nigerian people than we do with Trump and Harris or any billionaire. 

Solidarity with the people of Nigeria! 

2024 National Day of Mourning

Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.EST
Cole’s Hill, Plymouth, MA

Join us as we continue to create a true awareness of Native peoples and history. Help shatter the untrue image of the Pilgrims, and the unjust system based on white supremacy, settler colonialism, sexism, homophobia and the profit-driven destruction of the Earth that they and other European settlers introduced to these shores.

Solidarity with Indigenous struggles throughout the world!
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Colonialism is a Crime!
Free Leonard Peltier! www.freeleonardpeltiernow.org

While many supporters will attend in person, we will also livestream the event from Plymouth.

United American Indians of New England (decolonizing since 1970)
info@uaine.org * UAINE website * UAINE Facebook Group

Facebook event

Watch the 2024 National Day of Mourning Livestream on Youtube

Donate

#NDOM2024 #NoThanksNoGiving
No sit-down social, but box lunches will be available.
Masks required!

2024 orientation

What Is National Day Of Mourning?

An annual tradition since 1970, National Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown the day before through the afternoon of that day (and have a social after NDOM so that participants in NDOM can break their fasts). We are mourning our ancestors and the genocide of our peoples and the theft of our lands. NDOM is a day when we mourn, but we also feel our strength in action and solidarity.

When and where is day of mourning?

Thursday, November 28, 2023 (U.S. “thanksgiving” day) at Cole’s Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 12 noon SHARP. Cole’s Hill is the hill above Plymouth Rock in the Plymouth historic waterfront area. The rallies and marches will last until approximately 3 pm (sometimes later).

Will there be a march?

Yes, there will be a march through the historic district of Plymouth. Plymouth agreed, as part of the settlement of 10/19/98, that UAINE may march on National Day of Mourning without the need for a permit as long as we give the town advance notice.

PROGRAM: Although we very much welcome our non-Native supporters to stand with us, it is a day when only Indigenous people speak about our history and the struggles that are taking place throughout the Americas. Speakers are by invitation only. This year’s NDOM will be livestreamed from Plymouth.

-Note that NDOM is not a commercial event, so we ask that people do not sell merchandise or distribute leaflets at the outdoor program. We might have UAINE t-shirts available for sale following the march.

-We also ask that you do not eat (unless you must do so for medical reasons) at the outdoor speak-out and march out of respect for the participants who are fasting.

-Dress for the weather!

SOCIAL: There will be box lunches available, but we will not have a full sit-down social due to ongoing health concerns.

TRANSPORTATION: If you cannot get to Plymouth, you can watch our livestream! We will also post information about buses and carpools from NY (Brooklyn and Bronx), CT, western MA, Boston, Maine and elsewhere if applicable at the UAINE facebook event.

ELDERS/DISABLED PEOPLE: We have some chairs available for any Elders and others who need to sit during the initial rally on Cole’s Hill. We also will have ASL interpreters on-stage.

FOR UPDATES: Please join and check out the UAINE facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/UAINE for updates on National Day of Mourning this year. Our website uaine.org will be updated, but not as quickly or frequently.

Facebook event: https://bit.ly/NDOM2024

UAINE on Twitter & Insta: @mahtowin1

COVID-19 has hit Indigenous communities very hard, and we want to ensure that no one gets sick from attending National Day of Mourning. Please wear a mask!

#NDOM2024 #nothanksnogiving

On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Struggle-La Lucha published a new book: “The U.S. war drive against China, what it means for workers.” 

Celebrating 75 years of liberation

Oct. 1, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of China’s transformative revolution, which liberated the nation from feudal oppression and imperialist control.

Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, widely known as Chairman Mao, the Communist Party of China achieved what many deemed impossible — inspiring not just China but working and oppressed peoples worldwide.

The revolution ended China’s “Century of Humiliation,”  which began with British imperialism’s First Opium War in 1839.

Over the past 75 years, there has been significant progress for the masses and China’s working class.

Today, China is a global scientific powerhouse, boasting achievements in high-speed trains, affordable electric vehicles, pollution reduction, carbon emission control, and space exploration. The People’s Republic has also made significant strides in health care, education, and sports.

At no point has U.S. monopoly capitalism adopted a hands-off approach toward the development of socialism in China or elsewhere. It has consistently intervened against socialism worldwide.

The maneuvers by U.S. imperialism have been increasingly more dangerous and now point in the direction of war.

The global working class, including U.S. workers, must stand united in solidarity with the working class of China.

This book, “The U.S. War Drive Against China: What it Means for Workers,” aims to illuminate the growing dangers posed by a potential U.S. war against China and reveal the working class’s real enemies.

Get “The U.S. war drive against China, what it means for workers,” available online at tinyurl.com/USWarChina.

Two speakers at the Oct. 5 rally and march at Baltimore City Hall

The following are addresses given by young working-class activists Jace Carter and Colby Byrd at the rally for Palestine and Lebanon in front of Baltimore City Hall on Oct. 6.  

Jace Carter representing Struggle-La Lucha for Socialism and People’s Power Assembly

Good afternoon sisters, brothers, and siblings! My name is Jace, and I am a proud member of both the Baltimore chapter of Struggle-La Lucha (aka the Socialist Unity Party) and the People’s Power Assembly.

I just wanted to start off by saying that as a recent Loyola graduate, Shame on my university! Shame on all the universities across America repressing encampments and our international solidarity movement for Palestine! 

Struggle-La Lucha, the Socialist Unity Party, is dedicated to uniting all workers and the oppressed to overthrow our murderous capitalist system, and the People’s Power Assembly has fought against racist police terror and for the rights of poor and working-class people since the murder of Trayvon Martin. 

Over the past year, our organizations have been tirelessly organizing people in and around the Baltimore community to show solidarity and our commitment to Palestine through marches, rallies, and direct actions, as well as education campaigns against our notorious misleaders: Mayor Brandon Scott and District Attorney Ivan “the Terrible” Bates right here in Baltimore, and Governor Wes Moore in greater Maryland. 

They shamelessly continue to throw their support behind Genocide Joe and the genocidal entity of Israel! They know that participation in this grift can get them one step closer to a democratic party nomination for president. Imagine that. …

By the way, if you didn’t already know this, remember around May of last year when Ivan Bates shamelessly tweeted out pictures of himself smiling with the IDF soldiers he welcomed into our city without our consent? The same IDF Soldiers that annually train Baltimore Police Department officers! The same BPD that just received over $500 million in funding for this year! The same BPD that’s currently training in a $330 million Cop City facility right down the street next to Coppin State! Yeah, Ivan finally took that shit down, who’s surprised? But we will never forget.

Exactly a month from now, we will have undeniably the most important election in our lifetime, an election that either will save our precious democracy or plunge us in over our heads in terrible, terrible fascism.

That’s what our complicit mainstream media always loves to tell us every four years, right? For the past couple decades?! But oh, wait, what’s that? The fascism’s already here?! Well gee, I never would’ve guessed! All it takes is a quick look at TikTok and a quick look around you and our communities, our country, and the current state of the world! 

You know what’s actually really funny though? This illusion that the people even have a choice, if we ignore the fact that we haven’t had a choice really since the founding of this country. This “choice” between one side that promises to “finish the job” in the Gaza strip and then across the rest of the Middle East, and the other side that even way before Oct. 7 has been happily throwing away billions upon billions of our taxpayer dollars to fund genocide and endless destruction in occupied Palestine, while workers continue to be starved of living wages, affordable housing, and healthcare, and students continue to have their First Amendment rights heavily repressed by ultra-liberal universities pretending to care about basic human rights! 

Not to mention, FEMA recently announced a few days ago over a $9.7 billion shortfall for relief and aid for Hurricane Helene. Let that sink in for a second. A $9.7 billion shortfall for hurricane relief. Our government would rather intentionally manufacture another Katrina situation by sending over $8.7 billion to a genocidal entity to murder Palestinians and the people of Lebanon than do even the bare minimum to help those affected by Helene in the South! 

Where does that leave us, where does this leave our movement, on this, the one year anniversary of one of the greatest lies our terrorist government and the terrorist Israeli entity and their media puppets have ever told before? 

Our movement is at a critical juncture, a movement that’s worked so hard to make our voices heard and our actions seen. No doubt this feels like another 1968, doesn’t it? But we have an important choice to make this time. 

Will we allow this country to be overtaken by a significantly stronger wave of fascism, whether it has a red or a blue face?!

I said: Will we allow this country to be overtaken by a significantly stronger wave of fascism, whether it has a red or a blue face?!

We, the people, choose socialism and national liberation! 

We, the people, choose international solidarity over U.S. hegemony! 

We, the people, say long live Palestine and long live Lebanon! 

No boots on the ground, no bombs in the air! U.S. out of everywhere! 

Thank you, comrades!

Colby Byrd representing Struggle-La Lucha for Socialism

I have no love for the Uniparty. I do not want to and will not cooperate or reach across the aisle with racists, misogynists, war profiteers, and genocide enablers. The Uniparty is trying to bury the Palestinian struggle. It is trying to delegitimize it and hide it away somehow behind a mountain of corpses. They do all of this because they are scared of the struggle and what it means. They tremble and panic as the continued resistance in occupied Palestine tears open and exposes the old contradictions that propped up imperialist domination of the globe. A domination that leads to the systematic destruction of different cultures around the world, continuing into today. 

When I hear stories like the massacres at Nuseirat, Al Rashid, al-Mawasi, Tal al-Sultan, and Tulkarem my heart gets heavy with sympathy. My mind begins to race and my breathing becomes erratic as I fill with a sadness that I know all too well. It is the same feeling when I think of the Tulsa massacre or the Rosewood massacre, or Vicksburg, Memphis, Atlanta, and Springfield, to name others. All of these and the many others I didn’t name were attacks by the colonizer on my people. Videos of settlers and soldiers storming mosques and homes, I close my eyes and see the Charleston church or Breyonna Taylor’ss apartment. The other random and targeted attacks and killings of Palestinians wound my soul in the same way the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Micheal Brown, George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Daunte Wright, Atatiana Jefferson, Ahmaud Arbery, Botham Jean, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, and Donnell Rochester did. 

I of course cannot continue without saying that my heart bleeds for the many other Black victims of white supremacy and the insidious systems that uphold and nurture it. 

These systems that oppress and kill black people here are the same systems that oppress and kill Palestinians over there. Even down to the label it’s stamped with. From Amazon to police agencies, U.S. investments in Palestinian oppression and genocide are the continuation, evolution, and exportation of the systems that have systematically killed my people.

 “There will be no retreat from the path of confrontation, no matter how great the sacrifices are.”– Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

After nearly a year of War and Genocide. … 

Palestine Lives after over 70,000 tons of explosives were dropped across the occupied strip. … Palestine Lives. 

After Israeli soldiers and settlers have pillaged, and razed the land. … Palestine Lives. 

Through countless atrocities, massacres, forced starvation, and forced displacement. … Palestine Lives.

The People, the Palestinian People live on. Through impossible odds and hardships, they claw every moment closer to true freedom. Through this brutal confrontation for national liberation, the Palestinian people have been placed by Fate and Time to champion the Struggle and lead the fight. This fight stretches across the entire globe and encompasses each and every one of us. It is a fight, a brawl, a war for human decency and survival. 

Around the world, the ruling class is consolidating its gains wherever it can and brutally suppressing those in their way. We see it clearly in Palestine, where everyday people are fighting against Occupational forces and roaming gangs of settlers. Fighting to defend their homes, their culture, and their very way of life from extermination. We see this fight in Lebanon where the people are fighting back against the Israeli terrorists invading their country. We see this kinetic action also in Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran, all against the outstretched imperialist enemy. 

As the fight intensifies abroad, we here must rise to the challenge. Continue to organize and fight back in any way available. It will take all of us. The capitalists have declared total war. They show us every day, whether it be overseas or here, they have no problem killing men, women, and children, of all possible varieties for just one more dollar. We see it on the bodies of our class siblings who bear the scars of being overworked and maimed for an executive to get a bonus states away. We see in the countless recalls of food, the rising housing costs, crumbling infrastructure, and the lack of good employment, how they have tried over and over to waste us away, all to increase profits for the upper few. 

They will continue to try, they will continue to harass and harm us, continue to shoot us, and stomp out our voices. They will do everything they can to sever our connection to the beating heart of revolutionary change going on in Palestine but we will break through! We will continue to live, march, protest, and fight back over here for as long as the resistance needs us to. 

From the river, around the world, and back to the river, we stand united. It is indeed a revolution until the liberation of the land and of the human being. 

Long Live Palestine!
Long Live Lebanon!
Long Live Yemen!
Long Live Iran!
Long Live the Resistance, and Long Live International Solidarity!

Al-Aqsa Flood anniversary

Oct. 7 marks the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the Palestinian people’s heroic break through the concentration camp walls built by the Zionist regime around Gaza. 

It is also the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Israeli genocide, while these imperialists have launched a horrific war on the Lebanese people, murdering over 2,000. The resistance forces of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and other parts of the region remain undaunted.

This weekend of Oct. 5-6, people worldwide from Caracas, Venezuela, to Baltimore, Maryland, have demonstrated solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. 

20,000 march for Palestine and Lebanon in NYC

Twenty thousand people came to Manhattan’s Times Square on Oct. 5 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood uprising. Since then, at least 50,000 Palestinian and Lebanese people have been killed by the Zionist apartheid state using U.S.-made and paid-for weapons. The actual figure may be far higher.

Speakers denounced the genocide of Palestinians and the invasion of Lebanon. They pointed out that none of these war crimes would have been possible without the backing of the Pentagon and the Biden-Harris administration. Speakers also linked the Palestinian struggle to struggles in Haiti, Sudan, and Congo.

The militant action was called by the Shut It Down for Palestine Coalition. People marched downtown to Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan.

People marched downtown to Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan. There were labor, healthcare, Puerto Rican, Filipino, and Korean contingents in the march.

Along the street, onlookers showed their support. A hot dog vendor kept waving a Palestinian flag even after the marchers passed.

Caribbean women linked their arms together and chanted “Free, free Palestine” while waiting for a bus. Supporting Palestine and Lebanon has become the cause of the world.  

A shorter, very spirited rally was held in Washington Square Park. Palestine and Lebanon will win!

Thousands gather in San Diego to protest Israeli genocide

Over 2,000 showed up in solidarity with Palestine on Saturday, Oct. 5, in front of the County Administration Building in San Diego for a rally and march.

Large banners on the grass with body bags and pictures of men, women, and children honoring 27,000 Martyrs of Palestine killed by Israeli Genocide using U.S. Dollars.

The Rally began with chants in Arabic and English. The Palestinian Youth Movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, National Lawyers Guild SD, Code Pink, Jewish Voice for Peace, and BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment & Sanction) spoke at the rally. Then, the people took it to the streets.

New Orleans coalition shuts downtown in support of Palestine

On Oct. 5, several hundred rallied at the historic African American cultural site Congo Square ann marched downtown, shutting down busy areas, including Canal Street. The action was called by a coalition led by the Palestinian Youth Movement New Orleans and Masjid Omar. 

Contributors: Struggle-La Lucha New York bureau, Gloria Verdieu in San Diego, and Gregory E. Williams in New Orleans