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textLas aporías de Nueva Orleans y las tareas de la resistencia by Profesor J
See also the "Shaka Sankofa" and the "English" sections in the Clajadep web http://clajadep.lahaine.org...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 2:39pm PDT
textAn Angry 'Times-Picayune' Calls for Firing of FEMA Chief by reposted
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans on Sunday published its third print edition since the hurricane disaster struck, chronicling the arrival, finally, of some relief but also taking President Bush to task for his handling of the crisis, and calling for the firing of FEMA director Michael Brown and others....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 1:09pm PDT
textAudio And Video From New Orleans Survivors In Houston by reposts of audio from renee and liz
Reposts from houston...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:59am PDT
textMayor Nagin: Response still isn't enough by NOLA (reposted)
Viewed from the windows of a low-flying Blackhawk helicopter, the scope of Hurricane Katrina's destruction becomes clearer. The Causeway is like a broken spine, large sections of roadway listing disconcertingly into the brown water of Lake Pontchartrain. The modest homes in the Lower 9th Ward have been uprooted and are crushed together in clots like bumper cars. Pyramid-shaped rooftops are all that can be seen of many suburban-style houses in the Lakeview neighborhood. And the expanses of sma...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:02am PDT
textA great "Open Letter" to radicals. by deanosor (from New Orleans Indymedia)
This is an open letter from someone i have probably never met living in Houston, Texas. It speaks for me so much, i had to re-print it. Please read it and pass it on if you like it....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:01am PDT
textNew Orleans To Start Body Count by repost
As the last weary evacuees from the Superdome and convention center headed to shelters, New Orleans drew closer to dealing with its dead, a gruesome landscape of corpses expected to number in the thousands....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:59am PDT
textDysentery outbreak feared by repost
Authorities faced a deteriorating and disturbing public health crisis from Hurricane Katrina on Saturday as bodies continued to wash ashore after five days at sea and a possible dysentery outbreak shut down a shelter for hundreds....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:56am PDT
textGroups to support in New Orleans by deanosor
Rather than contribute money to the bureaucratic thieves in the American Red Cross, the homophoic Salvation Army or Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, here is a lsit of grass-roots groups that are doing good work....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:11am PDT
textWhat Is Cuban Fidel Castros' Secret? by ENOUGH
09/03/05 "t r u t h o u t" -- --- Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:35am PDT
textNew Orleans: Massive airlift rescues thousands by BBC (reposted)
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the southern US are being taken to safety in what is being called the largest-ever airlift in the country....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 10:03pm PDT
textBush's "criminal" staged photo-ops on Friday by kevin drum
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Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:41pm PDT
textMississippi Suffering Overshadowed by repost
Mississippi hurricane survivors looked around Saturday and wondered just how long it would take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they were more than angry at the federal government and the national news media....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:34pm PDT
text New Orleans will be a 'ghost town' for 9 months by UK Independent (reposted)
New Orleans will have to be abandoned for at least nine months, and many of its people will remain homeless for up to two years, the US government believes....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:18pm PDT
text 'They're not giving us what we need to survive' by UK Guardian (reposted)
Jamie Doward reports on the fury of New Orleans residents who say they were ignored and mistreated by the authorities...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 5:40pm PDT
textLast refugees leave the Superdome amid a sea of stinking trash by reposted
The last 300 refugees in the Superdome climbed aboard buses Saturday bound for new temporary shelter, leaving behind a darkened and stinking arena strewn with trash....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 5:26pm PDT
text"Thousands of evacuees could be coming to Bay Area" - Oakland Red Cross Office by repost
The 20 or so evacuees helped by the Oakland Red Cross are just the tip of the iceberg, agency workers said. "This crowd is swelling ...they're flooding in," said Monte Churchill, head of family services at the Oakland office. "It is not unreasonable to think that in the end, thousands of evacuees could be coming."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 1:48pm PDT
textWhy was relief so long in coming? by WHY????
Thank God for Ted Koppel, the reporters in New Orleans and Harry Connick Jr. Without them asking the tough questions and shedding light on the poor rescue and relief efforts, hurricane victims in New Orleans still would have no food, no water and no protection. They still would be dying in the streets or threatened by gunmen with rifles and AK-47s....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 1:37pm PDT
text New Orleans crisis shames Americans by BBC (reposted)
At the end of an unforgettable week, one broadcaster on Friday bitterly encapsulated the sense of burning shame and anger that many American citizens are feeling....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:27pm PDT
textResources to help victims of Hurricane Katrina by More useful information
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Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:41am PDT
textThe “New Poor” Versus The “Old Poor”: Who Gets Prioritized? by kirsten anderberg
Who will get prioritized? The old poor or the new poor? This is a serious dilemma. And my experience says that when middle class people lose things, everyone rushes to buy them replacement houses, cars, etc. But if you are poor, they are only gonna replace your poverty....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:21am PDT
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