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America needs change not charity Withholding aid from the United States is the only way to remove its domestic and foreign policy blinkers, writes Nick Cater...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:25am PDT
FEMA On August 29th: First Responders Urged Not To Respond Release Date: August 29, 2005
Release Number: HQ-05-174
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), today urged all fire and emergency services departments not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and lawfully dispatched by state and local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assis...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 10:42pm PDT
Pumps sucking water from flooded city Even as the Army Corps of Engineers made progress removing water from New Orleans, the city's deputy police chief urged remaining residents Monday to get out because there was no power, drinkable water or food supply....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:00pm PDT
Rev. Jackson: Return evacuees to Louisiana The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who on Sunday delivered a blistering critique of the slow efforts to rescue hurricane victims in New Orleans, shifted his focus Monday to what’s going to happen to those evacuees in the coming weeks....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 4:56pm PDT
Despite distress, some victims refuse to leave Many residents of New Orleans who live in the few areas on high ground that escaped flood waters say they will defy official requests for them to abandon their homes....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 4:35pm PDT
Texarkana pilot witnesses alligators in New Orleans Don Ruggles may forever have a vision of an alligator trying to get into the attic of a flooded New Orleans home.
It was recorded on videotape while Ruggles was piloting one of his helicopters in the rescue efforts of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 3:32pm PDT
Flood of food-stamp requests from those hit by Hurricane Food stamps have suddenly become a way of life for thousands of Louisianans who had never before sought public assistance, according to data provided Monday by the state Department of Social Services....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 3:24pm PDT
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's Desperate Plea For Help New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin expresses outrage and frustration during an interview last week by a local New Orleans radio station. Nagin demands greater effort and quicker delivery....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:00am PDT
Survivors From New Orleans Speak Out About Week of Horror We go to Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans where thousands of hurricane survivors are staying. The airport has become a triage center where the oldest, the youngest and the sickest lay desperate for help....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:57am PDT
Shocked Africans wonder at slow aid after Katrina ABUJA (Reuters) - Many Africans, accustomed to humanitarian disasters on their own continent, feel empathy toward Americans suffering in the wake of hurricane Katrina and share their disappointment at the U.S. government's response....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:12am PDT
Way Below The Poverty (and Water) Line People walking aimlessly in the streets. Food preparation on the sidewalk. People pushing shopping carts on the bridges and causeways filled with blankets, bits of clothes and a half-consumed jug of water. Homeless people? Panhandlers? Recyclers? No, survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the ravaged streets of Mississippi, New Orleans and parts of Florida....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:02am PDT
New Orleans - awash in corpses NEW Orleans turned much of its attention to gathering and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in thousands of corpses. ”It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine,” the US homeland security chief warned....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 7:47am PDT
Sen. Landrieu Threatens to 'Punch' President if He Keeps Hitting Local Response to Katrina Senator Mary Landrieu, the Democrat of Louisiana (whose father was a mayor of New Orleans), appears to have finally found her voice after offering only cautious criticism of the federal relief effort in the hurriance catastrophe earlier in the week. Today she promised to literally "punch" anyone, "including the president," who contnued to question the local response to the tragedy, considering the gross federal misconduct....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:33pm PDT
Action Alert: Rally for Relief Action Alert: Rally for Relief
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:30pm-6pm
San Francisco & Oakland
San Francisco Federal Building 4:30-6pm
450 Golden Gate Avenue (@ Larkin Street)
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 10:31pm PDT
Semi-poor guy wants to move to SF area How expensive is it to live in SF (and East Bay, etc.) compared to places like Portland, Oregon?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 7:53pm PDT
50,000 feared dead in New Orleans 9th Ward; More Addresses for Donations for Survivors This article has lots of addresses to where you can send money that goes directly to the survivors of the US Govt's attempted genocide in New Orleans. One estimate now is that some 50,000 people have died in the lower 9th ward. We all hope that is not true; for now, we must help the living and affirm our commitment to stopping genocide....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 7:10pm PDT
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans Latest commentary from Michael Parenti on the tragedy ay New Orleans...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:40pm PDT
UK survivors criticise British response as 150 still missing The Foreign Office has come under heavy criticism from British survivors of Hurricane Katrina for its failure to help those caught up in the disaster as up to 150 Britons were revealed to be unaccounted for....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:33pm PDT
Tell Bush & Congress: Accept Cuba's offer to send doctors to the hurricane victims! ...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 4:40pm PDT
Two colossal manmade disasters: Katrina and Alan What becomes obvious when a Katrina comes along is that for the many "born to lead," there is only a scant few "committed to serve."...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 3:39pm PDT
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