Hey Kids! 1993 FEMA coloring book!!!

I just found this little gem in the recycling bin at the library.

Protesting is dead

President Bush is in town today and tomorrow (April 21 & 22)
I found this out because of this flyer I received on campus last week and then again today. So today we headed downtown to see what we could see.

Although it was nice to get off campus the results were underwhelming. We found the 9 blocks enclosing Lafayette Square (between Magazine, Poydras, Carondolet, and Girod) had been blocked off . The NOPD, who really only excel at crowd control anyways, need not have bothered to come out in the numbers they did: they were hardly 5 protesters (ie: people with signs) and mostly they just milled around with the press and the cops behind multiple barriers.

Who in this city really has the resolve to protest anyway? Anybody actually making a comeback in this city by now knows not to depend on the help of any of the local, state, or federal governments for help. So what would be the use in wasting ones energy anyways to gripe at President who only excels at ignoring criticism?

I sound cynical writing this but I believe less in less in the traditional methods of protests today. Ever since the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, the images I've seen in newspapers and magazines of "protests" have been the same shot of a dude (or dudette) with dreads and drums and riot police with tear gas.

I would like to see and hear new methods people have come up with to have their frustrations seen and heard and acted upon. Get at me please.

- Bud R.


"The South, the nation, and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
-Martin Luther King Jr. (A Letter from a Birmingham Jail)

Notes from Salman Rushdie's Speech

Paper*Paper would like to thank Jason Rich for taking these notes from Salman Rushdie's speech in Dixon Hall on April 7.

Conglomerate of News Corporations = Bad News

All said and done, its really a rather bad time to be starting up a new newspaper. But this article about CBS borrowing reporting from CNN has me convinced about the need for more and disparate sources to report on more and disparate news stories. Its scary enough
that last year Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal for 5 billion dollars but news sources have been combing for years now. The Gannett Co. owns and publishes USA Today as well over 90 other newspapers, including my hometown paper, the Tennessean, both of which are terrible reading.

So what am I getting at here? Whats to be done? I'm not really sure other than I need to read more.

Buddha put it well when he said this:

"Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it
or who has said it,
not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your common sense."

CBS and CNN collaborating does not agree with my common sense.

-Bud R.

READ THIS!!!!!! READ THIS!!!!!!

Here we present to you, ladies and gentlemen, the first and only written response Paper*Paper has received about the inaugural. Sure to enrage and inspire and published untouched and unedited just as I received it, this is what Roy B. has to say:

A note on advertising in the Paper Paper

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Meatheads with badges

This was yesterday's headline of the paper in my hometown (Bnashville, TN).

"Aggressive side effects worry experts"... and everybody else

Quasi Nonviolence

On this day, the 40th anniversary of MLK Jr's death, its important to remember the impact of nonviolent resistance. Understandably, some people aren't as saintly as MLK and are prone to ocassionally lose their composure when faced with racism. Though tempted by anger they can still resist out and out violence when confronted. Bradley Armoster is one of those men. Here is his story as printed in the Nahsville Scene. -Bud

SPANK THE HONKEY
The victim of a racial slur exacts a special kind of retribution

Knowledge Reigns Supreme

In the printed PAPERPAPER the notes of KRS1's speech are condensed down to two pages but here are all 6 pages of notes I took while he spoke. Here there we present more of the radical and crazy things he said that had the crowd scratching their heads and getting up to leave. Check the call to action on the last page about the responsibility of priviliged white people living in NOLA right now... Ouch, I don't want to be remembered as a nazi. -Bud

Barack Obama preaches Tulane.

Barack Obama spoke to Tulane University. A few days later, Obama was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording of the Year... And we saw him for free. Tough question for discussion: How was Obama's talk not like church? -Sam P.












Link to Times Picayune transcript of the speech: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/barack_obamas_speech.html

Go West.

I've included some extra side notes from Cornel's speech that didn't make it into the printed copy.

Gentrification was a term he chose to specifically define after someone brought it up in the Q & A. Like Nick Marinello said, he was very graceful with his words.

Its also cool how both KRS and Cornel chose to site past examples of courage set by musicians Curt Mayfield and James Brown.

Here's a link to the Tulanian article, "Cornel West: A Bold Voice for MLK Week" by Nick Marinello, as published in Paper Paper (4/4/2008): http://www2.tulane.edu/article_news_details.cfm?ArticleID=7056

-Bud

INTRO from the print copy

Better Reading on Campus

Here it is: the inaugural issue of the Paper Paper. With this publication we hope to take advantage of well written material being produced on campus each and everyday by reprinting it here in this magazine. Essays, papers, prints, and poems all deserve more exposure. So if you feel passionate about the work that you’ve done, we can help you share it with a broader audience.

In this first issue, we reprint three inspiring speeches given at Tulane in the past year. I took these notes and illustrations as I sat listening to each speaker, so that’s why they are composed the way they are - quickly and crudely. To supplement them, I’ve also included an article written by Nick Marinello (a great writer for ‘The Tulanian’) and the transcript of Obama’s speech from the Times Picayune. Unfortunately, KRS1’s righteous and radical talk has no extra commentary to go along with it. But there were four other pages of notes from that speech that I haven’t included here. You can check them out along with other unpublished material online at:

PAPRPAPR.BLOGSPOT.COM

Take note that this book in your hand is an original copy, one of 50. So when you’re done reading it, share it with your friend and then tell her to pass it on to the next person. I’m putting my faith into self-circulation here and the power of word of mouth to increase exposure.

But truly I’m just happy I’ve managed to get this far with you reading this here right now.

Enjoy,

Robert B. Ries
RRIES@TULANE.EDU
(All submissions welcome and wanted. Tell me what you think)

Welcome to Paper-Paper online

Dear All,

Today, the first issue of Paper Paper is released. It contains the notes and transcripts of three inspiring speeches delivered on Tulane Campus, New Orleans in the last year and a half. Paper Paper, in an effort to engage the creative, artistic and intellectual people of the university area, will be publishing magazines/pamphlets/newsletters as often as articles can be gathered. This blog is so that everyone can participate and engage with the publication, and represent the University community accurately. Here, there will also be extra features that could not be printed in the paper publication.

The editors of Paper Paper encourage submissions, ideas and any interest that you might have. We are committed to printing whatever needs to be printed or whatever could use some dialogue.

Thanks to Nick Marinello and the Times Picayune for their transcripts reprinted here. Unfortunately, there is no such summary for KRS1's righteous and radical talk. Enjoy. -Ed. (Sam P.)