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The Militarization of New Orleans: Jeremy Scahill Reports from Louisiana
We go to Louisiana to speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill who has been in New Orleans this past week. He has been looking into how the city has changed to a militarized zone and what that means for the residents who left....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:41am PDT
Recovering New Orleans’ dead subordinated to profit and politics
One of the essential tasks in a disaster recovery operation—after evacuation and care for the living—is the removal of the dead. This is essential both to prevent the spread of disease and to identify the remains of those who were lost. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, however, federal and state authorities did not even begin the process for more than a week....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:37am PDT
Bush’s vision for New Orleans: a profiteer’s paradise
Striding across a deserted field to a podium in Jackson Square, a landmark in a desolate city, President George W. Bush addressed the nation Thursday night in a rare nationally televised prime-time speech....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:36am PDT
UN Human Development Report pleads for reform as poverty and misery deepen
The latest Human Development Report issued by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) documents the growing inequality and absolute decline in living standards and social conditions in large areas of the world....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:35am PDT
Trapped in New Orleans: Emergency Medical Worker Describes How Police Prevented Evacuation
We speak with emergency medical worker Lorrie Beth Slonsky who was in New Orleans attending a conference when hurricane Katrina hit. She describes how she spent most of the next week in New Orleans trapped by the flooding - and the police....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:31am PDT
BTL:People of New Orleans Fight for Voice in City's Reconstruction
Interview with Steve Bradbury, community organizer with New Orleans ACORN, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 5:37am PDT
10/16: Poor People's March
What are you doing on Sunday, October 16 – "National Boss Day"? We hope
that you will be joining us for the *Poor People's March* and the *Low-wage
Workers Community Congress*....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 10:33pm PDT
Memorial Service for Homeless People Begins Sunday
1,993 men, women and children died homeless over the past 18 years – 149 died last year alone. This Sunday, a three-day memorial held to honor their lives will begin. Organized by Religious Witness with Homeless People, the event will include a 94-foot memorial wall bearing the names of every person who died on the streets, as well as vigils, sacred song and dance, and a reading of the wall’s names led by religious leaders. The service presents a rare opportunity for San Franciscans to honor ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 3:30pm PDT
Profit system, not nature, main obstacle to rebuilding New Orleans
With each passing day, the immense scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina emerges more clearly, along with the enormity of the effort required to rebuild homes and social infrastructure for nearly two million people. Nearly 700 bodies have been recovered so far, and the death toll seems certain to mount into the thousands as houses cut off by high water become accessible to search crews....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 2:57pm PDT
Report #3 from BARHC Caravan in New Orleans
I'm posting an update on the Algiers Clinic, and how things have been going in New Orleans. We're now calling the clinic Common Ground, and we're referring to the staffing as part of the Mutual Aid Collective of Algiers....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 12:27pm PDT
Killing Americans By Health Care Policy
Lack of health insurance kills Americans....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 11:45am PDT
On the ground truth telling in Algiers, New Orleans
A report/blog from Algiers, a neighghborhood of New Orleans unhit by floods. This blog speaks of grassroots mutual aid happening there....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 3:47am PDT
Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows
Michael Brown takes the fall: Federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not former FEMA chief Brown....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 6:15pm PDT
Report #2 from BARHC Caravan in New Orleans
The Common Ground medical and relief effort in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans continues at full speed....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 4:29pm PDT
BARHC Medics in Lousiana Call For Licensed Volunteer MD's (and possibly NP's)
Hey Everyone,
This is Michael K writing from Algiers in New Orleans. We have had a tremendous outpouring of support, in terms of materials and spirit, from from folks in the immediate community, the local region, and nation-wide. The main concern now is for medical personal who can prescribe meds. Under the Louisiana state of emergency, all MDs who have active medical licenses in their home state have instant prescribing privileges here in Louisiana--simply bring copies of your license a...
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 9:48am PDT
“They ordered the evacuation, but there were no buses, nothing”
About one million people have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, according to various reports. Most of the survivors have left New Orleans and the surrounding areas, dispersed throughout the country in emergency shelters, military bases and donated living spaces. A majority moved in with friends and family, and so their new location is not known. Nearly 60,000 remain displaced within Louisiana’s overburdened shelter system....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 10:24pm PDT
New Orleans and poverty: a damning admission from the New York Times
The newspaper that proclaims as its motto “All the news that’s fit to print” was forced to make a damning admission on Sunday. In answer to a reader’s query, the public editor of the New York Times was compelled to acknowledge that over the past decade the newspaper had done little to inform its readers about the desperate poverty and social inequality prevailing in New Orleans. Both were exposed conspicuously and tragically in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 10:22pm PDT
The exploitation of Hurricane Katrina: remaking New Orleans for the rich
Even as the grim task of locating bodies and counting the dead continues, it is already clear that whatever reconstruction effort is mounted in New Orleans, it will be geared entirely to advancing the interests of the city’s elite and the profits of corporations across the country....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 10:21pm PDT
Support radical hurricane relief projects
Volunteers are needed right now in New Orleans who can provide medical care, help with clean up, do construction, report on the situation, and help people organize to save their communities....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 5:09pm PDT
New Orleans: People Tell of Police Abuse, Express Anger at Feds
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana - On the afternoon of Thursday, September 8th, Vermont National Guard troops brought food and water, by truck, into a number of poor and working class communities in Jefferson Parish, just across the river from New Orleans. Throughout the day twelve Guardsmen distributed an estimated 900 meals to hurricane survivors....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 5:07pm PDT