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Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race and Hurricane Katrina We speak with three residents of New Orleans who were forced to flee - David Gladstone, Beverly Wright and Curtis Muhammad - about who gets saved and who doesn't and even the question: will New Orleans be rebuilt?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:26am PDT
The Battle in the Gulf Coast and the War in Iraq “We want help! We want help!” were the thunderous shouts of protests by thousands of surviving African American residents on the flooded streets of a devastated New Orleans. Jarring scenes like these provoked by the government’s racist and uncoordinated response to Hurricane Katrina, which also hammered the gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, slapping President Bush upside his head with this serious domestic crisis brewing in the country’s South....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:12am PDT
Get Your Act On reports from Baton Rouge *the denial of aid appears to be continuing, though some supplies are getting in. *Daniel describes living in a complete war zone -- the few people left in houses holed up together with guns, fearing for their lives. *People calling the one radio station from their attics, desparate, saying there was but a foot of space left between the flood waters and the roof and to please come get them before they died -- but there was no one to come....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:02am 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
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
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
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
Boston street rally demands money for hurricane victims not war; National demos Sept. 12 
Dozens came out to an emergency demonstration Sept. 3 called by the Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC)—Boston under the slogan “Money for the victims of the hurricane – Not for War!” The depth and breadth of those protesting government negligence and in unity and solidarity with the hurricane victims is widespread......
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:01am 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
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
Hurricane Katrina Mutual Aid Relief 
Want to help out the people affected by Hurricane Katrina? Are you interested in supporting grassroots efforts to help people, instead of religious or corporate charities like the Starvation Army and the Red Cross?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 10:05pm 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
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
Katrina Open Letter to Radical/Progressive Community Introspective call for mutual aid to victims of both Hurricane Katrina and a failed system of government....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 2:46pm PDT
Las aporías de Nueva Orleans y las tareas de la resistencia 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
Audio And Video From New Orleans Survivors In Houston Reposts from houston...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:59am PDT
A great "Open Letter" to radicals. 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
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