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New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:11pm PDT
Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer During Hurricane Katrina Coverage New Orleans, LA (emergingminds.org) - Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, one web surfer on an Atlanta message board did not let the disaster blind him of how racist the media in American remains. A message board poster with the alias “Noah_The_African” pointed out a prime example of how America’s racist media will quickly portray African Americans in a different light than White Americans even in a time of crisis....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:09pm PDT
The battle to defend Social Security Saving Social Security from privatization will be a major theme at Labor Day celebrations around the country, as members of Congress prepare to head back to Washington. Working people are determined to put Congress on notice that any proposal that undermines or privatizes Social Security is not acceptable and must be voted down. As was done in the 1930s to win Social Security and other social legislation, a massive outpouring can achieve not only protection of Social Security, but expansion o...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:05pm PDT
Phone Calls Needed Now to Help Hurricane Victims Yes, you can do something right now. Go to your phone book, look up your representatives in Congress & the US Senate in the federal government section, call them and leave a message that they should call Tenet Hospital in New Orleans at 504-897-4531 and 504-897-4530 and assure them helicopters are coming TODAY to pick up the 1200 sick people & their caregivers....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:45pm PDT
Fats Domino missing in New Orleans flood Rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino is among the thousands unaccounted for in flooded New Orleans after rebuffing friends' pleas to flee as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city he celebrated in song, his manager said today....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 6:12pm PDT
Hurricane Provides New Money-Making Opportunity for Red Cross While President Bush joked and strummed a guitar, Hurricane Katrina brought devastation to low-income African American communities in Mississippi and Louisiana. With state National Guard members dispatched to Iraq, much of the burden of reducing the human misery will fall upon relief agencies, most prominently the American Red Cross. Unfortunately, as San Franciscans learned after the 1989 earthquake, the Red Cross feels no obligation to spend money raised from a particular tragedy for the pu...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 5:00pm PDT
Hastert Questions Rebuilding New Orleans WASHINGTON -- It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 2:28pm PDT
Reports of rogue New Orleans police This is from a blog. It confirms my father's experience living in New Orleans in the mid 60s when the police are notoriously corrupt. When a new mayor came in and cracked down this corruption, the crime rate appeared to go up because citizens felt more comfortable actually calling the police when they were victimized.
. . . The Iberville Housing Projects got pissed off because the police
started to "shop" after they kicked out looters. Then they started
shooting at cops. When t...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 1:03pm PDT
* Katrina Relief Efforts - Some of the Ways We Can Help * "Western Decadence" a relief benefit will be hosted on Labor Day,
Mon. Sept. 5, from 3-7pm at The Edge bar in the Castro....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 12:36pm PDT
Anger spreads across New Orleans NEW ORLEANS — Fights and trash fires broke out, rescue helicopters were shot at and anger mounted across New Orleans on Thursday, as National Guardsmen poured in to help restore order across this increasingly desperate and lawless city....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 12:25pm PDT
Muni Fare Strike Bulletin #4: The Fare Strike is on! this was written by the fare strike folks, who are apparently separate from the social strike people...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 12:04pm PDT
Homeland Emergency: Disaster Relief is Suffering Under New DHS Bureaucracy The Department of Homeland Security is spending billions on domestic spying and counter terrorism – is disaster relief getting sidelined? We look at the first major test of the massive homeland security bureaucracy with Matthew Brzezinski, author of “Fortress America.”...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:26am PDT
The Drowning of New Orleans: Hurricane Devastation Was Predicted The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote three years ago, "It's only a matter of time before south Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. Billions have been spent to protect us, but we grow more vulnerable every day." We look at the lack of infrastructure preparedness in the Big Easy....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:25am PDT
Bill Quigley in New Orleans Hospital: “No Water, Sick, No Heat, Call Somebody for Help” We go to New Orleans and Law Professor Bill Quigley who is trapped in Memorial Hospital with hundreds of other people. There is no water or electricity in the hospital and relief efforts have yet to reach them....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:24am PDT
Superdome exodus on hold after shots, fires National Guard troops in armored vehicles poured into New Orleans on Thursday to curb the growing lawlessness that included shots reportedly fired at a helicopter airlifting people out of the Superdome and arson fires outside the arena....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:20am PDT
Hurricane Katrina: The People Did Not Have to Die There was no way to stop Hurricane Katrina, but the chaos, suffering and death that resulted from this storm WAS preventable. Why didn’t the government organize massive and systematic evacuation? Why weren’t the levees maintained? Why were so many people left to fend for themselves?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 12:15am PDT
Bush rules out significant federal aid to hurricane victims Only hours after reports that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina may number in the thousands, President Bush delivered perfunctory remarks that offered little except condescending sympathy to the victims of the worst natural disaster in American history....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:50pm PDT
A million more Americans living in poverty US poverty increased as real wages stagnated and more Americans lost health insurance between 2003 and 2004, according to Census data released August 30. The latest estimates are based on information collected in 2005, combined with a slightly older annual supplement to the federal Current Population Survey....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:45pm PDT
Katrina refugees will go to Houston's Astrodome HOUSTON – At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina's refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, will travel in a bus convoy to Houston and will be sheltered at the Astrodome, which hasn't been used for professional sporting events in years....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 9:07pm PDT
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