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Search ResultsHealth, Housing, and Public Services Featured Center Column Storiesmatching the search query Katrina (sorted by date posted in reverse chronological order) 
Curtis Reliford and his Follow Your Heart Action Network Sue Starbucks  - by IndybayCurtis Reliford and his Follow Your Heart Action Network sued Starbucks for slander after an incident in 2007 when a Starbucks manager in Santa Cruz tried to have Curtis arrested for panhandling. Curtis, and about 20 supporters, attended a court hearing on March 17th in front of Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Jeff Almquist. The case was dismissed on the premise that calling a charitable organization a "panhandler" was not going to hurt its reputation or influence how it conducts its b... Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:04PM
Protests in SF and Oakland to Remember Katrina  - by IndybayOn August 29th, more than two-hundred Bay Area residents demonstrated outside of developer Lennar Corp.'s Headquarters in San Francisco and then headed to Oakland to rally in front of the Oakland Police Department (OPD). The local chapter of the Right to the City Alliance, a national coalition of more than 35 social justice organizations, along with allies and supporters, aimed to bring attention to rogue developers, gentrification and criminalization of communities of color from the Bay Area... Posted: Tue Sep 2, 2008 7:54AM 
A new documentary by Upheaval Productions - by IndybayPost-Katrina reconstruction is still in progress throughout the Gulf Coast, with much of the City of New Orleans still in ruins. Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans is a documentary focused on those rebuilding the city through interviews with some of the estimated 100,000 Latino migrant laborers who have converged in the area over the past two and a half years. Despite terrible working conditions, massive fraud, a housing crisis, severe harassment by law enforcement, and very limi... Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:01PM
World Social Forum Global Day of Action  - by IndybayOn Saturday January 26th, Bay Area activists protested at Senator Feinstien's home to commemorate the World Social Forum's Day of Action by demanding the Human Right to Housing in New Orleans. Demonstrators targeted Senator Feinstein due to her ambivalence on Senate Bill 1668, the "Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007," which would allocate funding for housing in New Orleans and guarantee one for one replacement of any destroyed public housing units. Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:48PM
Free Screening at Resource Center for Nonviolence on January 6th  - by IndybaySaturday, Jan. 6th
7:30pm
RCNV (515 Broadway) On August 29, 2006, Hurricane Katrina attacked the Gulf Coast of the United States. A Category-5 hurricane, Katrina destroyed entire towns and left a trail of destruction in her wake. But the impact was magnified by city, state, and federal government negligence, and in no city was there a better example of the government’s failure than in New Orleans, where thousands were killed—both by water and bullets—and hundreds of thousands were lef... Posted: Thu Jan 4, 2007 3:02PM
Great Flood Commemoration Events  - by IndybaySeveral events were held in SF and Oakland to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster on the Gulf Coast. People honor those who have died, committed to fight for the right to return for all those who are still displaced, and demanded an end to blatant racial discrimination in post-Katrina New Orleans. A Katrina Community Commemoration Event was held on Tuesday, August 29th at the First Unitarian Church in Oakland. Other Bay Area events included a film festiva... Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:12PM
Come Back Home Campaign  - by IndybaySurvivors of Hurricane Katrina and the People's Organizing Committee are organizing a Come Back Home Campaign for the week of the one-year anniversary of the devastating hurricane. Displaced survivors who are living all over the country will gather in Washington, DC from August 24th through 26th. They will pitch
tents and camp out on the federal government to demand
their right to return home. On August 27th and 28th, these survivors will be pitch their tents in Baton Rouge, LA, in front... Posted: Sun Jul 9, 2006 3:40PM
Call to Action to Stop Evictions in Bayview-Hunters Point  - by IndybayOn March 7th, there will be a hearing
before the Redevelopment Authority, which will seal the
fate of Bayview Hunter's Point. A Rally and Press Conference will take place before the meeting, at 3:00pm. 1 | 2
The meeting will take place in City Hall, Room 416, at 4:00pm. At issue will be a proposed amendment to the Redevelopment plan, in which some 1,360 acres of new land would be designated ‘Project Area B’ and added to the existing 137-acre Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area. ... Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:52AM
Protest as FEMA Plans to Cut Off Housing Funding for Katrina Survivors  - by IndybayOn Tuesday, Februrary 7th, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Bay to Gulf Solidarity gathered at the FEMA office in downtown Oakland at 1111 Broadway (at 11th St.). They “evicted" FEMA for its failure to provide long term housing for Katrina survivors, and for obstructing residents' right to return to their homes in the Gulf. Photos February 7th was the date on which FEMA planned to cut off the funding that many of the 3300 Katrina evacuees in the Bay Area have relied on to pay for tempor... Posted: Sat Feb 4, 2006 10:18PM
Fight to Protect New Orleans Residents' Properties from Real Estate Speculation  - by IndybayIn spite of a temporary moratorium that social justice groups won against the city, which blocks attempts to bulldoze the homes of Lower 9th Ward residents, the city is still trying to destroy many homes. The moratorium, which ends on January 6th, 2006, is being circumvented by the city through its claim of eminent domain. Many New Orleans homeowners are in danger of losing their property to real estate speculators. Local residents are working alongside the Common Ground Collective, a gras... Posted: Mon Jan 2, 2006 11:07PM
Teach-in and Other Events in Leadup to Roadtrip for Relief  - by IndybayThe Common Ground Bay Area Caravan to New Orleans is preparing for its November 16th send-off. Thirty people have committed to volunteering to go on the Roadtrip for Relief to rebuild the 9th Ward in Louisiana. A number of events are taking place around the Bay Area to analyze what happened during and after Hurricane Katrina, and to prepare for a more just future. Sunday, November 13th will be the final meeting for volunteers who are interested in participating in any way in the Bay Area ca... Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 10:42PM
People Nationwide Needed to Inform 9th Ward Residents of Work Being Done to Return Them to Homes  - by IndybayThe Common Ground collective is asking people to visit the New
Orleans evacuees in
their
area’s shelters and talk with them about efforts
that are being made to get
them
home. This can be done by printing out the 9th Ward
flyer and bringing it
to
shelters. Information and talking points can be
obtained by going to
http://www.commongroundrelief.org and by calling Common
Ground's 9th Ward
Coordinator, Brandon Darby.
Common Ground Collective efforts have begun to take
shape in... Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:13AM
Common Ground Collective, Including Malik Rahim, Reports on Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts  - by IndybayBay Area members of the
Common Ground Collective are giving two San Francisco report backs from their recent trip to New Orleans. On Sunday, October 2nd, they spoke at 7:00pm
at Station 40 in San
Francisco. On Sunday, October 9th at 7:00pm, they will speak at Artists’ Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @ 21st St., San Francisco (wheelchair accessible). Members of a medical and health care caravan who just
returned from working in Algiers with the Common
Ground Collective will sha... Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:52PM
Katrina Evacuees as Well as Texas Residents Flee Ahead of Hurricane Rita  - by IndybayOn Monday, Santa Cruz Indymedia reporters Bradley and Vinny returned to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, which had been a shelter for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, to find that the center was trying to return to its normal business of hosting conventions. Vinny spoke with several people who had been excluded from federal services and are not sure what they are going to do for jobs and housing. Photos and Audio of volunteers and hurricane survivors. Bradley's September 17... Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:36PM
Indymedia Reports From Houston  - by IndybayOn September 9th, Bradley from Santa Cruz Indymedia and two other west coast IMCistas arrived in Houston, Texas to help provide independent media coverage from Houston and other communities. Their first stop was the Astrodome and surrounding buildings.
There are about 10,000 people now living in these buildings, which are now being called "Dome City." The scene in the Astrodome is almost unreal. There are thousands of people sleeping in close proximity. Many people are trying to get in con... Posted: Fri Sep 9, 2005 10:40PM
Bill Hackwell's Report and Photos of Gulf Coast Devastation  - by IndybaySeptember 7th, 2005: A delegation from ANSWER, including SF activists Bill Hackwell (photographer) and Gloria La Riva (videographer), went to Louisiana and Texas to witness the devastation in the Gulf Coast region, and Bill Hackwell wrote a report about his experiences. He says, "The stories we collected were remarkable in that everyone we talked to had either lost someone in the waters or now could not locate their families. Normal people talking about saving people in their community was c... Posted: Thu Sep 8, 2005 12:14AM
Katrina Timeline - by IndybayHurricane Hits Florida:
On Wednesday August 24th
Katrina became a Category 1 hurricane, as it crept toward an overnight landfall on Florida's densely populated southeast coast.
Two people were killed by falling trees after it made landfall along the Miami-Dade and Broward county line between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach The death toll had risen to seven by Friday August 26th as South Floridians coped with local floods, sweeping power outages and forests of toppled trees.
... Posted: Sat Sep 3, 2005 5:18PM
Hurricane Katrina Updates  - by IndybayWe have been abandoned by our own country.
Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms
ever to hit an American coast, but the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American
soil ever in U.S. history....
It´s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here.
Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area,
and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.
-Pr... Posted: Sat Sep 3, 2005 11:28AM
Disaster Was Predicted  - by IndybayYou go down to the west bank FEMA office, you find out they're predicting 27 feet of water in New Orleans, in New Orleans, where a million people live, 27 feet of water in a category four storm...
W. J. TAUZIN --
MARCH 21, 1996
U.S. House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment,
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the French under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. The site was select... Posted: Sat Sep 3, 2005 10:49AM
Rescue, Not Repression in New Orleans  - by IndybayTroops Out Now says that a national day of solidarity with the hurricane victims has been called for September 12th.
A New Orleans-Style Funeral was held in San Francisco on Thursday, September 8th. Photos World Can't Wait held a press conference on Wednesday, September 7th at the SF Federal Building. World Can't Wait's demands include, "People who are attempting to meet their basic needs must NOT be shot down or
arrested."
ANSWER called for a national day of emergency action on Septe... Posted: Sat Sep 3, 2005 9:13AM |