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New Orleans--Some sunshine after the floods Racism is like the black mold eating away at the long-submerged houses....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:45am PDT
Pakistan Will Never Forget This Horror: Things are Bad and Getting Worse October 11, 2005 -- Tariq Ali in Lahore...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:03am PDT
New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left behind. The poor, the ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:55am PDT
Solidarity Not Charity Grassroots Relief Efforts Fill in the Gaps in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:57pm PDT
The Blind Leading the Relief Efforts: Thai communities come together despite foreign aid 
While larger relief organizations are mismanaging resources, poorly delegating authority, and exacerbating racial tensions in the Andaman region of Thailand, small relief organizations are using small resources to leverage change and local Thai leadership is emerging....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 4:57pm PDT
Devastating quake kills 20,000 in Pakistan and India A major earthquake on Saturday morning measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale has devastated cities, towns and villages across northern Pakistan. The official death toll in Pakistan reached 19,369 yesterday with over 42,000 people injured, but casualties are expected to climb further as rescue workers reach outlying areas. Hundreds more were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The worst affected in both countries were the poor who lived in cheap housing built of mud brick and wood....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:31am PDT
hurricane stan Dear folks-
Hurricane Stan has completely devastated southern mexico and Central America. The gross similarities between Stan and Katrina are obvious: poor people experiencing the tragic effects and government incompetence only endangering the people more.
I have many friends missing and in danger there. To my people out there: You're in my thoughts and prayers! I couldn't find much information in English, so I investigated the Mexican daily La Jornada to get the low down. I wrote this ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Will President Bush Help Homeless? Ending homelessness was a priority of President Bush. Is the Bush administration still willing to help?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 2:44pm PDT
URGENT Relief Needed for Native American Communities of LA CALL FOR URGENT RELIEF ACTION
Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana...
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 11:12am PDT
Restrictive bankruptcy bill to remain in place for Hurricane Katrina victims The Bush administration made clear this week that it will not revoke or delay a law that will make it harder for tens of thousands of working-class Americans to file for bankruptcy. With the support of the White House, Republican congressmen rejected calls from consumer groups and some Democrats to place a moratorium on the bill’s provisions for victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 10:19am PDT
Black Caucus demands jobs, housing, health care for storm survivors Put people before cronies...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:01am PDT
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters “Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” said Corinne Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. “Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 8:24am PDT
Home Depot Exploits Hurricane Victims One week after Hurricane Rita blew through East Texas, many residents of Walker, Montgomery, San Jacinto and surrounding counties were still without electricity. Those who did have electricity still experienced rolling black outs for four or more hours daily in the extreme heat of the Indian Summer. They were the lucky ones. Those without any electricity quickly began to realize just how dependent they were upon it. They couldn’t take a hot shower. They couldn’t watch TV or read after sunset....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 9:36pm PDT
Bankruptcy After Katrina: Who Wins, Who Loses? President Bush's bankruptcy bill, passed by Congress in April, is taking effect later this month. Four congressmembers are now calling for victims of hurricane Katrina to be exempt from certain provisions of the law. We speak with the Consumer Federation of America....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:08am PDT
Inequality in the Wake of Katrina: A Debate on Bush's Child Tax Credit A new study shows that the child tax credit does not benefit almost half of African-American and Latino children - and it turns out that the children who see the least benefit from the credit are in Mississippi and Louisiana. We host a debate with the Children's Research and Education Institute and the Heritage Foundation....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:07am PDT
Orleans Parish DA on Racial Stereotyping, Police Looting and Private Military Contractors We speak with the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Eddie Jordan about the grossly exaggerated reports of multiple murders and criminal mayhem in New Orleans in the days after hurricane Katrina hit. Jordan says, "I'm pleased that there was very little bloodshed, but it seems to me that the national media outlets had an obligation to verify the charges [of violence] being made by some of the evacuees and some of the public officials."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 7:06am PDT
When Spin hurts innocent victims, by people in positions of power, 
Racism has expanded to incorporate people who thought they were imune, to the suffering of people of color only to be incorporated into the big picture. The question is with unlimited amount of money and a Earth that can not survive will the money save them? And if you are not rich and your expendable income is becoming less do you feel more secure?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 3:57pm PDT
Head of Small Relief Agency Blasts Red Cross "Money Pit" We speak with Richard Walden, president and founder of Operation USA, a Los Angeles-based relief agency. In an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times this week titled "The Red Cross money pit," Walden writes that despite, "Giving so high a percentage of all donations to one agency (The Red Cross) that defines itself only as a first-responder and not a rebuilder is not the wisest choice."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:18am PDT
Real Reports of Katrina Relief: Sept. 29th Rita Edition Yesterday I drove to the Algiers Red Cross distribution point which is located in the southern section of the Algiers neighborhood near the middle-class white section of town. As soon as I walked in, I noticed a frowning young man in a khaki shirt and black hat with a sidearm and corporate logo prominently displayed....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 11:25pm PDT
Attention Walmart Shoppers: You Are On Your Own 
The shopping centers that have replaced our communities don't provide shelter from storms....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 1:20pm PDT
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