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Social Strike Town Hall Meeting Social Strike invites you to come organize with us!
We are having weekly meetings on Sundays at 3 pm. The next one is this Sunday, October 2, at 3030b 16th Street (meetings will be held at this location through the end of October)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 3:34pm PDT
10/2, 10/4, 10/9 in SF: Reportbacks from New Orleans Just back from NEW ORLEANS, bay area members of the
Common Ground Collective are giving two report backs
in San Francisco…JUST IN: MALIK RAHIM FROM COMMON GROUND IN SF THIS
TUESDAY...
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 1:37pm PDT
New Orleans Evacuees Blast Lack of Any Aid or Relief Weeks After Katrina A month after hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, displaced New Orleans residents at the Radisson Hotel in New York City speak out about the lack of aid they have received and the continued difficulty of receiving any type of relief from the Red Cross....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:29am PDT
Head of Small Relief Agency Blasts Red Cross "Money Pit" We speak with Richard Walden, president and founder of Operation USA, a Los Angeles-based relief agency. In an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times this week titled "The Red Cross money pit," Walden writes that despite, "Giving so high a percentage of all donations to one agency (The Red Cross) that defines itself only as a first-responder and not a rebuilder is not the wisest choice."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:18am PDT
NYTimes Tries to Downplay New Orleans Outcome Rather than examining things like the potential losses for Historical Black Colleges, or the many many many unique and tragic outcomes of the storm in a place like New Orleans, the NYTimes tries to downplay it now, and focus on how the reality supposedly didn't live up to the fears. This is a typical disinfo tactic - focusing on how things are actually better than everyone thought is way to try to sway perceptions that way, while ignoring the actual situation on the ground....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 8:13am PDT
Salvation Army Drug Detoxification Program to Close Salvation Army Set To Close Important Drug Treatment Center...
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 12:16am PDT
Real Reports of Katrina Relief: Sept. 29th Rita Edition Yesterday I drove to the Algiers Red Cross distribution point which is located in the southern section of the Algiers neighborhood near the middle-class white section of town. As soon as I walked in, I noticed a frowning young man in a khaki shirt and black hat with a sidearm and corporate logo prominently displayed....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 11:25pm PDT
More Than 500 From New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517 unaccounted for, while prisoners and their lawyers say many were abandoned in the flooding jails. We'll speak with Human Rights Watch's researcher, as well as a man who was in the Orleans Parish Prison during the storm, and two lawyers fighting to discover what exactly happened inside the jails....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 6:38am PDT
US media held to account for exaggerated tales of Katrina chaos The stories out of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were little short of sickening: armed gangs terrorising evacuees in the Superdome and convention centre, bodies piling up by the dozen amid the stench and human waste, bodies stuffed into a freezer, children raped, murdered and thrown into waste bins....
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 10:53pm PDT
Challenge to the Social Strike Organizers frustrated commuter calls on Social Strike organizers to broaden their campaign...
Posted: Mon, Sep 26, 2005 10:42am PDT
Flooding From Rita Spreads Misery In Louisiana's Watery Regions "This is the worst we've had," said Constable Albert Creppel, who knew of five breaks in the levees by early morning. "We had four houses flood in Katrina. We have hundreds flooded now."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 10:08pm PDT
Refineries See Some Damage, Dodge Bullet Hurricane Rita smacked a key region for oil-refining with less force than feared on Saturday, although there were some early signs of damage....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 3:01pm PDT
Louisiana-Texas state line bears brunt of storm Regions along the Texas-Louisiana state line appeared to be hit hardest by Hurricane Rita on Saturday, as the former Category 3 storm dropped to Category 1 status just hours after making landfall...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 10:54am PDT
Social Strike Town Hall Meeting Social Strike invites you to come organize with us! We are having
A T O W N H A L L M E E T I N G!
3 pm, Sunday, 9/25
3030b 16th Street
(meetings will be held same place and time, every Sunday through the end of October)...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 10:53am PDT
Rita floods New Orleans after most of city had been pumped dry Hurricane Rita's wind-driven storm surge topped one of New Orleans' battered levees and poked holes in another Friday, sending water gushing into already-devastated neighborhoods just days after they had been pumped dry....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:08pm PDT
Pacifica Station KPFT Weathers Hurricane Rita As hurricane Rita bears down on the Gulf Coast, we go to Houston to speak with the staff of Pacifica Radio station KPFT - one of the few radio stations still broadcasting in the city....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:08am PDT
Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans As Katrina's flood waters recede, government contractors are flowing into the Gulf Coast and reaping billions of dollars in pre-bid, limited bid, and sometimes no-bid contracts. We speak with Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of CorpWatch.org, about his latest article titled "Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:07am PDT
Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunit In this week's cover story in The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports on how mercenaries from private security firms like Blackwater USA and BATS are patrolling the streets in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:05am PDT
Disaster Profiteering: Purging the Poor in the New New Orleans We speak with writer and author Naomi Klein about what some are calling the real looting of New Orleans. In this week's cover story in The Nation magazine, Klein reports on how the city's poorest evacuees are being kept out of thousands of perfectly livable empty homes....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:02am PDT
Fatal bus fire snarls Rita evacuation The evacuation of the U.S. Gulf Coast turned deadly on Friday when a bus carrying people fleeing Hurricane Rita caught fire a Texas highway, killing at least 20 people along a major escape route, local officials and news reports said....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:26am PDT
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