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FEMA Kicked out Local Staff Eric Barrow, an investigator for Orleans Parish Coroner's Office, said that FEMA told the local staff to leave saying that "they'd take care of it." Barrow, after spending nine days doing hurricane relief, is now at the Red Cross Shelter in Tucson, Arizona. He says he's leaving as soon as possible so he can get back and start working....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 6:58am PDT
Bush rejects responsibility in Hurricane Katrina disaster The Bush administration’s response to the social disaster unfolding in Louisiana and Mississippi is to deny any responsibility for the horrifying conditions facing more than one million people. White House officials, from Bush on down, have rejected all criticism of the federal government’s failure to prepare before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast or respond adequately afterwards....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 6:54am PDT
George Lakoff: The Post-Katrina Era It is impossible for me, as it is for most Americans, to watch the horror and suffering from Hurricane Katrina and not feel physically sore, pained, bereft, empty, heart-broken. And angry....
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 5:45pm PDT
Inside a FEMA Detainment Camp 
I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 5:41pm PDT
Sept 8 & 9 National Call In Days to Save Domestic Programs! Join Us During The National Call In Days To Oppose The Proposed Cuts To The Nations Humanitarian & Housing Assistance Programs!
KPFA Will Do A Live Show On Living Room Hosted By Chris Welch To Let The Community Know What They Can Do To Save These Much Needed Programs....
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 2:36pm PDT
Depleted Disaster Aid: Rejecting International Donations and the Using Resources in Iraq While international donations have been pouring in for victims of hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration has been somewhat reluctant to accept offers from countries like Cuba and Venezuela. We speak with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies about international donations and how essential resources have been stretched thin by the war in Iraq. International donations have been pouring in for victims of hurricane Katrina. Countries across the political and economic spectrum hav...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 8:04am PDT
The Deadly Floodwaters of New Orleans As the toxicity of the New Orleans' floodwaters grows worse, we look at the environmental and public health dangers looming in the city. We speak with a chemical toxicologist and independent water-consultant about the problems brewing in the water of New Orleans. As the fallout from Hurricane Katrina continues, more is being revealed about FEMA's role in handling the catastrophe and the qualifications of the people in charge of the agency. Michael Brown heads FEMA and his official title is Un...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 8:03am PDT
Why FEMA Failed: The Bush Administration and Disaster Relief As Republican leaders announced a joint House-Senate inquiry into failures surrounding the response to Hurricane Katrina, we take a look at why FEMA failed with Salon.com staff writer Farhad Manjoo who writes, "Ideologically opposed to a strong federal role in disaster relief and obsessed with terrorism, the Bush administration let a once-admired agency fall apart." In Washington, Republican leaders on Wednesday announced a joint House-Senate inquiry into failures surrounding the re...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 8:00am PDT
Photos of the Genocide in New Orleans While the US Gestapo, FEMA, illegally attempts to thwart photography of the dead of New Orleans, photos are being taken and published around the world of the genocide perpetrated by the US Government, with malice aforethought....
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 6:34am PDT
Pet owners refusing to leave homes from a rescuer: "FEMA has told us we cannot take the pets. They told that we could not take one cat or dog in our boats ... It's a stupid rule. More people are going to die because of that."...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 8:34pm PDT
New Black Panther Party Search and Rescue Mission Proves Successful On September 3rd the New Black Panther Party launched a search and rescue mission in the core of New Orleans. There efforts resulted in over 500 people being rescued and provided with food, clothing, and other relief supplies....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 5:37pm PDT
Eye Witness from the Hurricane 
This is a report from an ANSWER delegation that just returned from the devastation in New Orleans with photos by Bill Hackwell...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 12:15pm PDT
Radio Astrodome: Independent Media to Provide Critical Info for Displaced New Orleans Resi Independent media activists are setting up a low-power radio station at the Houston Astrodome to provide critical information to hurricane Katrina evacuees. We speak with those working on launching the station and the challenges involved....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:27am PDT
Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race and Hurricane Katrina We speak with three residents of New Orleans who were forced to flee - David Gladstone, Beverly Wright and Curtis Muhammad - about who gets saved and who doesn't and even the question: will New Orleans be rebuilt?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:26am PDT
The Battle in the Gulf Coast and the War in Iraq “We want help! We want help!” were the thunderous shouts of protests by thousands of surviving African American residents on the flooded streets of a devastated New Orleans. Jarring scenes like these provoked by the government’s racist and uncoordinated response to Hurricane Katrina, which also hammered the gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, slapping President Bush upside his head with this serious domestic crisis brewing in the country’s South....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:12am PDT
Get Your Act On reports from Baton Rouge *the denial of aid appears to be continuing, though some supplies are getting in. *Daniel describes living in a complete war zone -- the few people left in houses holed up together with guns, fearing for their lives. *People calling the one radio station from their attics, desparate, saying there was but a foot of space left between the flood waters and the roof and to please come get them before they died -- but there was no one to come....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:02am PDT
Visual Timeline: Katrina versus Bush As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words. Two columns of pictures: the "Katrina" column on the left, juxtaposed against the "Bush" column on the right....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 2:03pm PDT
The Smoking Gun: Navy Ship sits unused awaiting Bush's orders, while Bush ate cake (video/x-ms-wmv 1.2MB) After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras.
Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush's orders.
In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander Sean Kelly ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:07am PDT
Pastors for Peace organizing grassroots emergency aid caravan to New Orleans WE ARE ANNOUNCING THAT PASTORS FOR PEACE IS NOW ORGANIZING AN EMERGENCY AID CARAVAN TO LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. We see an opportunity to do what our government has not done and does not intend to do: to reach out quickly to those who hunger and thirst. We cannot fail to respond to the needs of our sisters and brothers; neither can we...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:22am PDT
New Orleans Locals Rescue Their Neighbors in Absence of Government Response Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton spent the past several days in Louisiana. He filed a report from the flooded streets of New Orleans as he rode in a boat with locals searching for survivors in their community....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:57am PDT
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