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Report #2 from BARHC Caravan in New Orleans The Common Ground medical and relief effort in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans continues at full speed....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 4:29pm PDT
Community Support in Algiers, New Orleans 
On September 13, the Common Ground collective in Algiers, New Orleans began the day with a meeting to discuss everything from staying healthy to the difference between martial law and a state of emergency. A medic at the wellness center said that the best way to maintain to the health of the community is be sure that everyone washes their hands often and to not share plates and utensils....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 12:59pm 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
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
Parenti in New Orleans The water in the lower Ninth Ward is thickening into a glassy, fetid
slick as the gasoline, oil, solvents and sewage from thousands of
submerged vehicles and homes leaches out. Some rescue crews can stay
out on their boats for only an hour before getting light-headed. The
water's blue-black sheen casts back an almost mocking mirror image of
the horrible devastation and incongruously beautiful blue sky above....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:17am PDT
Survival in the French Quarter Here's a piece written by ananrchist who didn't leave New Orleans...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 1:16pm PDT
IF YOU HAVEN'T CONTRIBUTED MONEY YET... A good group to to contribute money to....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 10:59am PDT
Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans In addition to the thousands of military troops patrolling the streets of New Orleans, there are also scores of private soldiers that are now spreading out across the city, like those from the Blackwater Security firm. Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 7:49am PDT
New Orleans Activist Points to Neglected Corpse as U.S. Military Passes Off Blame Democracy Now! reports from the streets of New Orleans. We speak with community organizer Malik Rahim who points out a dead body in his neighborhood that has been neglected since hurricane Katrina hit and we ask soldiers and police why it hasn't been picked up....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 7:47am PDT
Malik Rahim 's comments during the radio interview with San Diego Radio Active Part one of a transcript for Rahim's comments during the radio interview with San Diego Radio Active....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 6:54am PDT
Charmaine Neville On Getting Out Of New Orleans Transcript of video interview with Neville posted at Baton Rouge, WAFB....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 6:52am PDT
Hurricane Katrina and the meaning of September 11 ...There is, however, a more fundamental issue which neither the US media nor the political establishment is prepared to address, let alone answer. The Bush administration’s performance in the Hurricane Katrina disaster cannot be dismissed as the result of shifting the focus of FEMA from natural disasters to terrorism. Many of the tasks which FEMA was called on to perform after Hurricane Katrina would have been similar in the wake of a nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Scientists have c...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 6:48am PDT
WSJ: White rich elude Orleans chaos, don’t want poor Blacks back The Wall Street Journal front-page headline reads, “Old-Line Families / Escape Worst of Flood / And Plot the Future / Mr. O’Dwyer, at His Mansion / Enjoys Highball With Ice; / Meeting With the Mayor.”
That is, however, just the beginning. According to the (paid-restricted) Journal, New Orleans’ wealthy white neighborhoods emerged very much intact, while Black neighborhoods are swimming in toxic sludge. The Journal piece, by Christopher Cooper, reads like something torn from the pages of Fi...
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 9:49am PDT
Video Report Back From New Orleans (video/x-ms-wmv 36.4MB) On Saturday September 3, award-winning filmmaker Gloria La Riva, internationally-acclaimed photographer Bill Hackwell and A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student Coordinator Caneisha Mills, a senior at Howard University, arrived in New Orleans. View the video in Windows Media player Shot by Gloria La Riva of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. In Windows Media (14 min, 36 MB)...
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 12:34am PDT
More Scenes from 'Dome City' 
These photos are from the very early morning hours of September 10....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 10:37pm PDT
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