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9/7 at 12pm in SF: WCW Responds Hurricane Katrina Emergency press Conference: On Hurricane Katrina called by the World Can't Wait
Drive out the Bush Regime - Wed Sep 7 at noon @ SF Federal Bldg, 450 Golden Gate SF...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 4:03pm PDT
Visual Timeline: Katrina versus Bush As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words. Two columns of pictures: the "Katrina" column on the left, juxtaposed against the "Bush" column on the right....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 2:03pm PDT
New Orleans Police Chief Stands Up To Critics Amid searing criticism and rumors of rampant force desertion, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass defended his department Monday with crisp but harsh words, saying officers held their ground without food, water and even ammunition in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Bush to lead inquiry into Katrina (Investigating Himself?) US President George W Bush says he will lead an investigation into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:38pm PDT
Fire in New Orleans historic district 
NEW ORLEANS A blaze today in a historic New Orleans district of mostly wooden homes has fired up some complaints about the response.
National Guardsmen cordoned off the area in the lower Garden District as New Orleans firefighters battled the blaze....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:34pm PDT
E. Coli bacteria detected in New Orleans floodwater Floodwater in New Orleans is contaminated with E. coli bacteria, a city official told CNN Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:28pm PDT
Storm prompts warning along Florida coast About 120 miles of Florida's Atlantic coast were under a tropical storm warning Tuesday as a new system formed just offshore and threatened to dump up to 15 inches of rain in parts of the state....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:25pm PDT
The Smoking Gun: Navy Ship sits unused awaiting Bush's orders, while Bush ate cake (video/x-ms-wmv 1.2MB) After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras.
Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush's orders.
In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander Sean Kelly ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:07am PDT
Pastors for Peace organizing grassroots emergency aid caravan to New Orleans WE ARE ANNOUNCING THAT PASTORS FOR PEACE IS NOW ORGANIZING AN EMERGENCY AID CARAVAN TO LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. We see an opportunity to do what our government has not done and does not intend to do: to reach out quickly to those who hunger and thirst. We cannot fail to respond to the needs of our sisters and brothers; neither can we...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:22am PDT
Plan to Move Astrodome Evacuees on Hold A plan to move some Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Houston Astrodome to cruise ships was postponed Tuesday because many didn't want to go, and a proposed airlift of refugees out of strained Texas appeared to be on hold after the federal government took over....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:06am PDT
New Orleans Locals Rescue Their Neighbors in Absence of Government Response Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton spent the past several days in Louisiana. He filed a report from the flooded streets of New Orleans as he rode in a boat with locals searching for survivors in their community....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:57am PDT
Katrina Survivors: difference between the haves and the have-nots Hotel is a microcosm of evacuee experience...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:53am PDT
Louisiana Gov. Blanco says Army brought attitude, not resources Even as teams of engineers worked to patch ruptured levees in New Orleans, a political breach opened between Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush over who is in charge of the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery effort....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:27am PDT
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
Political Persecution of Anti-Police Brutality Juanita Young Continues POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF POLICE BRUTALITY ACTIVIST CONTINUES – TRIAL FOR JUANITA
YOUNG POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 6, 2005...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 11:23pm PDT
"Bring Them Home Now" Tour: from Crawford, TX to Washington D.C The Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour is crossing the country from Crawford Texas to
Washington DC - see www.bringthemhomenowtour.org for all the details!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 10:52pm 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
Halliburton Subsidiary Tapping $500M Navy Contract to Do Gulf Coast Work Who'd have guessed?? Ever wonder who benefits? Just like Fallujah, they don't give a F---k who dies as long as there's immediate cash for the masters . . ....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 2:40pm PDT
Hip Hop: Chuck D Poem and New Orleans Commentary mp3 download (audio/mpeg 17.3MB) Chuck D On Air America From Sept 4th...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 12:35pm PDT
80,000 Rodney Kings in New Orleans MIKE WHITNEY: If You have Nothing, You are Nothing...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 10:59am PDT
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