Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
We are happy to announce that "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans" won the prestigious Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Documentary at the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF).
We also received word that we won the top award from the Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association’s 2008 Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival. The festival and award ceremony will be in San Francisco in November. We are honored to be recognized by the SFIFF and SFA/AAA.
In addition, "Faubourg Tremé" is about to be shown around the world. Upcoming screenings will have people lining up to see the documentary at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, The Carver Cultural Community Center in San Antonio, Texas, the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, the National Worker’s Co-Op Conference in NOLA, and at the Real Life Pan-African Film Festival in Accra, Ghana-Africa!
Other news to announce include the new page on www.tremedoc.com where people can post comments, reminisce, reconnect, share ideas and help to continue the inspirational legacy of Tremé. And if you haven’t seen the trailer, check it out - or better yet, order the DVD.Lucie, Dawn and Lolis
Dear Editor:
Let me begin by saying thank you to The New Orleans Tribune for keeping our community informed and up to the minute on the real issues affecting our community.
Last month's issue with the cover story titled "Another Manhattan Move" was outstanding. It broke down in an easy to understand way the real deal behind the attempts to transfer Louis Armstrong Airport from city to state ownership.
Where are our Black-elected state and local officials on the issue? We'd like to know.Robin M. Jones
Dear Editor:
Think about it.
Our legislators may need a raise, but why now and why double their pay when state retirees who worked full time for eighteen to twenty years a 3% cost of living raise.
Why do they vote to double their salary while they have legislation pending to increase our automobile insurance? Why give themselves any raise and cut the budget for the food banks that help feed the elderly and the poor? thirty seven thousand dollars is still too much when we are struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina and rebuild. Katrina affected all of us and we need more money for our families.
If this salary is supposed to get us more qualified politicians, then it is time we get rid of all of them. They knew what the position paid.
"He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; and so are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owner. (Proverbs 1:V.19 and 15, V.27)
These are our tax dollars and we should have a voice in how our taxes are being spent.
It is up to us to clean house.Community advocates for the elderly and disadvantaged,
Ruby Caliste Sumler and Josephine Elow