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BAHRC Medics in Lousiana Call For Licensed Volunteer MD's (and possibly NP's) Hey Everyone,
This is Michael K writing from Algiers in New Orleans. We have had a tremendous outpouring of support, in terms of materials and spirit, from from folks in the immediate community, the local region, and nation-wide. The main concern now is for medical personal who can prescribe meds. Under the Louisiana state of emergency, all MDs who have active medical licenses in their home state have instant prescribing privileges here in Louisiana--simply bring copies of your license a...
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 12:43pm PDT
Update on Katrina disaster area situation DawnWatch: Update on Katrina disaster area situation and major media stories 9/13/05...
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 12:20pm PDT
BARHC Medics in Lousiana Call For Licensed Volunteer MD's (and possibly NP's) Hey Everyone,
This is Michael K writing from Algiers in New Orleans. We have had a tremendous outpouring of support, in terms of materials and spirit, from from folks in the immediate community, the local region, and nation-wide. The main concern now is for medical personal who can prescribe meds. Under the Louisiana state of emergency, all MDs who have active medical licenses in their home state have instant prescribing privileges here in Louisiana--simply bring copies of your license a...
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 9:48am PDT
Texas Death Row Prisoner Frances Newton Scheduled to Die Today Frances Newton, death row prisoner in Texas, is scheduled to be executed later today but lawyers are seeking a last-minute stay on her execution. We speak to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D - Texas) and an anti-death penalty activist about the case....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:23am PDT
Roberts Testifies Roe v. Wade is "Settled As a Precedent" But Refuses to Say More Chief Justice nominee John Roberts declined to say on Tuesday if he would reverse the long-standing decision legalizing abortion, but said he believed the Constitution accorded Americans the right to privacy, which is the key underpinning of Roe v. Wade. We speak with the president of the National Organization for Women....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:22am PDT
Roberts Grilled on Voting Rights Act Chief Justice nominee John Roberts was grilled on a number of contentious issues on the second day of his Senate confirmation hearing, including abortion, civil rights, women's rights and education. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:20am PDT
“They ordered the evacuation, but there were no buses, nothing” About one million people have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, according to various reports. Most of the survivors have left New Orleans and the surrounding areas, dispersed throughout the country in emergency shelters, military bases and donated living spaces. A majority moved in with friends and family, and so their new location is not known. Nearly 60,000 remain displaced within Louisiana’s overburdened shelter system....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 10:24pm PDT
New Orleans and poverty: a damning admission from the New York Times The newspaper that proclaims as its motto “All the news that’s fit to print” was forced to make a damning admission on Sunday. In answer to a reader’s query, the public editor of the New York Times was compelled to acknowledge that over the past decade the newspaper had done little to inform its readers about the desperate poverty and social inequality prevailing in New Orleans. Both were exposed conspicuously and tragically in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 10:22pm PDT
The exploitation of Hurricane Katrina: remaking New Orleans for the rich Even as the grim task of locating bodies and counting the dead continues, it is already clear that whatever reconstruction effort is mounted in New Orleans, it will be geared entirely to advancing the interests of the city’s elite and the profits of corporations across the country....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 10:21pm PDT
Save Frances Newton Phone Call Today for Clemency Save Frances Newton Many phone numbers you can call now for clemency...
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:03pm PDT
Creativity, Solidarity and Mutual Aid in Algiers, New Orleans 
On September 12, Vinny, Blank and I arrived in New Orleans. We are staying in the Algiers neighborhood. Community members and volunteers from coast to coast and Europe, are providing people in New Orleans with food, medical aid and health supplies....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 6:31pm PDT
Support radical hurricane relief projects Volunteers are needed right now in New Orleans who can provide medical care, help with clean up, do construction, report on the situation, and help people organize to save their communities....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 5:09pm PDT
New Orleans: People Tell of Police Abuse, Express Anger at Feds Jefferson Parish, Louisiana - On the afternoon of Thursday, September 8th, Vermont National Guard troops brought food and water, by truck, into a number of poor and working class communities in Jefferson Parish, just across the river from New Orleans. Throughout the day twelve Guardsmen distributed an estimated 900 meals to hurricane survivors....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 5:07pm PDT
Protests In Aug Show Peace Movement Growing A woman in NYC disrobes to display "Stop the War" painted on her body, and a man in Binghamton places 1,800 US Flags in is yard to protest the War in Iraq. But there were many, many more who devoted a few hours to show dissent against the war....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 2:36pm PDT
Algiers Needs Supplies, Send to Cafe Mawonaj (NOT American Red Cross!) Lyndi Bourne is a former resident of Oakland and is now with volunteer efforts in Algiers, Louisiana. What follows: on-the-ground accounts of conditions, as well as information on what kind of supplies are needed, and where to send donations and supplies (NOT to the Red Cross)....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 2:03pm PDT
1,000 chickens that rode out the storm now escape the frying pan The tireless and unstoppable Kim Sturla of Animal Place is at it again, this time saving massive numbers of chickens in Katrina disaster zone....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 1:39pm PDT
Report from Bay Area caravan to New Orleans (part1) (audio/mpeg 4.9MB) Last night ECR spoke with Natasha, who is in Louisiana along with members of the Bay Area Radical Health Collective (including physicians, EMTs, body workers) to provide supplies, health services and support. You can tune in to ECR's news show monday evenings 7-8pm on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM or click the "Radio" link up top to listen online.........
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 9:34am PDT
Senate Dems Call For Open Questioning of Roberts During the opening day of confirmation hearings of John Roberts as chief justice, Democrats repeatedly said all questions to the nominee were fair game, including about issues such as abortion and civil rights. Republicans encouraged Roberts not to answer questions about his views on controversial topics. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:16am PDT
US media hails martial law general in New Orleans The abject failure of American capitalist society in face of the human tragedy in New Orleans, and the disaster’s exposure of the stark social polarization in the US, have proven deeply unsettling for the ruling elite and the more comfortable sections of the upper middle class....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:11am PDT
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