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50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing More than 50,000 people are still living in hotel rooms three months since the devastating consequences of Hurricane Katrina displaced as many as one million people. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is currently funding hotel stays for the evacuees who have not been able to find housing. After the next round of deadlines, FEMA will no longer pay the hotel bills....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:32am PST
FEMA/RED CROSS GOP SAY NO MONEY TO TRANSIENT EVACUEES OF RITA/KATRINA I want to stress that i am not a left wing person. I am a Conservative Republican.
So one cannot dismiss this as anti gop propoganda. Is aw the horrible job fema/red cross has done and how homeless, travelers, transients are basically being told to die by the Red Cross and FEMA...
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 3:06pm PST
eat Local Organic food and abate global starvation How the environment and eating (Local Organic Food) is linked to Gandhi's ideology for transforming the world. Many links....
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2005 11:07pm PST
BTL:France's Street Violence Ascribed to Decades of State Inattention to... ...High Unemployment and Poverty Among Immigrants ~ Interview with Paul Silverstein, associate professor of anthropology at Reed College, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 11:07am PST
US House of Representatives approves $50 billion in social cuts In the early hours of Friday morning, the House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill that includes cuts of nearly $50 billion over five years, primarily in social programs for the poor. At the same time, Congress is considering extending tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy in the amount of $60 billion-$70 billion over the same period....
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 9:35am PST
More Than 1,000 Katrina Children Still Missing In the chaos of the evacuation of New Orleans and other storm-ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast, several thousand children were reported missing. Two and half months after the hurricane hit, nearly 1,300 are still on missing-children lists....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 2:52pm PST
FEMA to evict tens of thousands of Katrina victims The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Tuesday that it would stop paying for housing for most of the nearly 60,000 families left homeless by Hurricane Katrina who are staying in government-paid hotel and motel rooms. The cutoff will be effective December 1....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:29pm PST
The War At Home: New Orleans, Public Housing, and the “Chilean Option” Grass roots activists in New Orleans and Gulf Coast argue that the Bush-led regime, with support from the Democrats, are using hurricane Katrina to deepen and expand the racist and anti-working class neoliberal offensive of privatization, austerity, and attacks on civil liberties. In short, the U.S. government is coupling its’ Salvador option abroad with a “Chilean option” at home....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 6:57pm PST
France: racism, poverty lead to violence Fires burned across France this week as young people from immigrant families, mainly from North and West Africa, protested life on society’s working-class margins....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 10:36pm PST
France: Yes, it's burning As violence continued last week in the French capital's suburbs and spread to provincial cities, the French government has been accused of fiddling while Rome burns, writes David Tresilian from Paris...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 12:57pm PST
Join the O2 Collective For a Relief Trip to New Orleans! 
The Oxygen Collective is organizing a trip in our biodiesel bus for the first three weeks of December to bring supplies and volunteers to offer direct aid and relief work for people in the New Orleans area. We will be joining with an inspiring grassroots effort spearheaded by the Common Ground Collective (http://www.commongroundrelief.org) in the Algiers Neighborhood, where one of the O2's founding members, Kerul Dyer, is working as their unofficial Director of Operations....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:06pm PST
Thousands Face Eviction in New Orleans The scheme to flush the remaining poor out of New Orleans and grab their land is quickly moving into a new phase with a lockout of public housing tenants....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:47pm PST
interview with jenka from algiers / new orleans part 2 (audio/mpeg 12.2MB) great phone interview and update.
26min 39sec 64kb great quality for a ph interview...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 9:00am PST
Tell Congress to Stop War on Hurricane Victims Now, we need your help to stop the war on drugs from becoming a war on
hurricane victims....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 10:10pm PST
America’s crippling health care system claims another victim It’s a scenario that could happen to any one of us.
No, not Hurricane Katrina, but the aftermath of simply driving down a quiet rural road — minding the speed limit and minding one’s own business. Suddenly, out of nowhere, an oncoming car crosses the double yellow line and veers into your lane. Disaster strikes....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:36am PDT
Public outcry blocks GOP budget cuts Massive public pressure forced the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to abruptly delay action last week on major slashes in human services programs. The slashes, contained in a budget amendment, would have increased mandatory cuts from $35 billion to $50 billion in health care, Medicaid, energy assistance, food stamps, student loans and child care, while maintaining $70 billion in tax cuts for the rich....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:30am PDT
Power outages, gas lines, hunger fuel Floridians’ anger after Hurricane Wilma Four days after Hurricane Wilma hit South Florida, close to 4 million people remain without power and the phone system is largely inoperable. The statewide death toll climbed to 10 on Thursday, and more than 2,900 people remained housed in 25 shelters spread over 11 counties....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 9:57pm PDT
Common Ground Collective Calls for Help in Communicating with 9th Ward Residents of NOLA 
Urgent: Common Ground collective calls for help in informing New Orleans 9th Ward residents of the efforts being made to help them return to their community....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 12:31pm PDT
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