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A great "Open Letter" to radicals.
This is an open letter from someone i have probably never met living in Houston, Texas. It speaks for me so much, i had to re-print it. Please read it and pass it on if you like it....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:01am PDT
Groups to support in New Orleans
Rather than contribute money to the bureaucratic thieves in the American Red Cross, the homophoic Salvation Army or Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, here is a lsit of grass-roots groups that are doing good work....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:11am PDT
What Is Cuban Fidel Castros' Secret?
09/03/05 "t r u t h o u t" -- --- Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:35am PDT
OH NO: Mr. Bill Knew, So Why Didn't Washington? (video/x-ms-wmv 2.4MB)
Before we buy the claims of politicians that there was no way to predict or prevent the sinking of New Orleans, it's worth asking how Mr. Bill knew? That's right, the hapless clay figure once featured on NBC's Saturday Night Live starred in a prophetic public service announcement earlier this year to raise awareness about the environmental conditions that could lead to a hurricane drowning the city....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:59pm PDT
'They're not giving us what we need to survive'
Jamie Doward reports on the fury of New Orleans residents who say they were ignored and mistreated by the authorities...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 5:40pm PDT
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's Message (audio/mpeg 3.2MB)
Mayor Ray Nagin Audio from WWL-AM radio. aired Sept 1st at 4:45pm....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:34am PDT
The “New Poor” Versus The “Old Poor”: Who Gets Prioritized?
Who will get prioritized? The old poor or the new poor? This is a serious dilemma. And my experience says that when middle class people lose things, everyone rushes to buy them replacement houses, cars, etc. But if you are poor, they are only gonna replace your poverty....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:21am PDT
New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Sends Elite Aid/Rescue Team to New Orleans Disast
heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
Notes From Inside New Orleans
Yes, I stayed through the storm and aftermath. I'm fine - much better off than most of my brother and sister hurricane survivors. Below is my attempt to relay some of what I've seen these last few days....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:54pm PDT
New Orleans and Baghdad—two sides of the same policy
As US National Guard troops—just returned from Iraq—moved into New Orleans Friday with “shoot-to-kill” orders, and Blackhawk helicopters flew over the city, the essential unity between the policies pursued by Washington at home and abroad found stark expression....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:29pm PDT
Help ACORN Fight for Hurricane Relief for All
We write to ask your help for ACORN, a group that that needs your help now so that they can provide critical help to those in need and continue to hold public officials accountable...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:10pm PDT
Katrina: a tragedy made worse
Chicago, Sept. 1, 2005 - All of us share the pain of those hit so hard by Hurricane Katrina. All of us will do what we can to help ease the burden of the families who have lost their loved ones, their homes and even their towns and cities....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:00pm PDT
'This is criminal': Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans
Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that is not flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one. What h...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:59pm PDT
Hurricane Katrina: Help the poor endure
by Marc Morial, former two-term mayor of New Orleans...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:57pm PDT
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 10:02am PDT
Genocide americano en New Orleans
Esperaba seriamente que no tendría que escribir este artículo. Pero ha sido demasiado largo ahora, y tengo que decir algo. Sin importar debido a si el masse del en de las muertes de la gente negra pobre en New Orleans es la negligencia o maliciousness, el resultado final es constructivo un genocide en negros pobres en América, ahora, en 2005. La carencia de la ayuda a New Orleans en esta última hora (7 P.M., sept. 1) no es explicables. Tengo solamente una explicación que pueda reunir para arr...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 9:51am PDT
A Southern US Anarchist Statement on the Gulf Coast Disaster
The State leaves 100,000 to drown like rats, while people everywhere open
their hearts and homes
As many as 20,000 people have been abandoned in the New Orleans
Convention Center with no resources and no anticipated relief. Meanwhile,
National Guard units with submachine guns and body armor prevent people
from taking necessary food from places where it would otherwise go to
waste, and call it "urban warfare."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 8:35am PDT