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Katrina animal update -- from Gonzales shelter: begging the animal community for help DawnWatch: Katrina animal shelter update -- from Jane Garrison at the Gonzales shelter 9/19/05...
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2005 10:53am PDT
NYPD Stops Cindy Sheehan Speech, Cuts Mic, Disperses Enraged Crowd A rally of 150 New Yorkers at Camp Casey-NYC was cut short this afternoon when NYPD acting under Inspector MacEnroy broke through the human wall of Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out activists surrounding Gold Star Mom Cindy Sheehan and cut off her microphone and took her amplifier. Cindy Sheehan was reporting on the successful Bring Them Home Now bus tour. One activist remains in jail....
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2005 7:57am PDT
Interview from 'Dome City' with Josh from New Orleans (audio/mpeg 19.4MB) On September 17, I spoke with Josh from New Orleans. He was sitting on a curb outside of Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas. Reliant Arena is a building next to the Astrodome and has been considered a part of 'Dome City.' Our interview begins with Josh explaining that he could get arrestted that night just for talking to me and giving me a recorded interview. (42:22 minutes / 19.4 MB)...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:47pm PDT
Volunteers desperately needed for animals at Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales ...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:43pm PDT
9/22: World Bank and Pentagon to be married at last! We write to inform you that we (the World Bank
and the Pentagon) are getting married on Thursday
SEPTEMBER 22 (see details below) and we cordially
request your presence at this happy occasion....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:41pm PDT
Extinction Bill Introduced; Would Rip the Heart out of the Endangered Species Act Representative Dick Pombo (R-CA) has introduced H.R. 3824, an "extinction bill" that would eliminate 30 years of progress towards recovery of imperiled fish and wildlife under the Endangered Species Act, our nation's most important wildlife law....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:28pm PDT
No Compassion at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston 
On Saturday September 17, Vinny and I were on our way to the Reliant Arena, but we got a little lost in the sprawling city of Houston, Texas so we made our way to the George R. Brown Convention Center first. This convention center is next to the new baseball stadium where tens of thousands of people were watching an Astros game. Nobody seemed to care that in the building next to the baseball stadium, more than a thousand people are still struggling to survive the aftermath of Hurricane Katrin...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:04pm PDT
Getting Your FEMA Money Getting the emergency/relocation money promised by FEMA can be a nightmare. This article tells how one mother got her FEMA check after the Northridge Earthquake and gives practical advice to help others in the same situation....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 3:15pm PDT
Guantánamo Prisoners Continue on Hunger Strike, Confounding Authorities A senior military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the situation as greatly troublesome for the camp's authorities and said they had tried several ways to end the hunger strike, without success. The comments of the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, probably because their accounts conflict with the more positive descriptions in official military accounts, generally mirrored the statements of lawyers for the detainees, who have received their informa...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 3:05pm PDT
Will Katrina Wallop Black Voting Power? The hurricane, by scattering black voters over several states, may have given the GOP a gift....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 2:36pm PDT
Jose Padilla and the death of personal liberty “The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the executive.” – Judge Antonin Scalia...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 7:49am PDT
Higher-than-expected death toll seen in clustered New Orleans corpses Tentative optimism that New Orleans’ death toll from Katrina might be far lower than first projected has given way to somber reality over the past 36 hours as search and rescue squad turn up bodies by the dozen in the hardest hit areas of the city....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 6:59am PDT
New Orleans Response: Pillaging, looting - these guys are pros The $200 billion that President George W. Bush has earmarked for rebuilding the Gulf of Mexico region is chum for the big-ticket, GOP contributors. It will bring in the Great White contract-seeking sharks from Maine all the way to Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 6:58am PDT
Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies Over the last several years the top corporate executives at Northwest and Delta airlines negotiated retirement packages guaranteeing them millions in the event the companies declared bankruptcy and defaulted on their pension payments to employees. Both companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Wednesday, in large measure to escape their pension obligations and seek the bankruptcy court’s backing for sweeping cuts in airline workers’ jobs, wages and benefits....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:56am PDT
Tax cuts to continue, social programs to be slashed in wake of Hurricane Katrina The day after his speech from New Orleans pledging that the government “will do what it takes, will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives,” President Bush hastened to reassure the American ruling elite on Friday that whatever spending is required, it will not hurt the pocket books of the wealthy. Bush vowed that spending on the hurricane-devastated region would come from cuts in other parts of the federal budget....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:55am PDT
Report #4 from BARHC Caravan in New Orleans The medical relief effort at the Common Ground clinic in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans is shifting from "emergency response" to "primary care" mode. Many patients now are repeat visitors. The clinic is well stocked with first aid supplies and has a phone line and several donated computers....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 5:50pm PDT
Open letter to the Peace Movement From Lloyd Hart. 
Humanity's Greatest Act of Inequality....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 3:10pm PDT
Hurricane Katrina -- Beware of disaster profiteers and peddlers of hate! The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate urges donors to make an informed decision about how they want their contributions channeled and ask all those committed to broad values of secularism, pluralism and justice to oppose the forces that use the pretext of relief operations to further their sectarian agendas....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 12:10pm PDT
The New York Times and Bush’s New Orleans speech The debased and servile state of the US media was on display in its response to President Bush’s Thursday night speech in New Orleans. Press reports and commentaries were largely favorable, depicting Bush’s words as a serious effort to grapple with issues of poverty and inequality that have never before been on the radar screen of this administration, and his proposals as a significant pledge of federal aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 11:47am PDT
Investigation Finds Red Cross Withheld Aid, Operates In Tandem With Homeland Security Jennifer Van Bergen (of The RawStory.com) 16.SEP.05...
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 10:17am PDT
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