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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
heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
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
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
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
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
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
by Marc Morial, former two-term mayor of New Orleans...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:57pm PDT
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
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
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
Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
I was seriously hoping that I would not have to write this article. But it has been too long now, and I have to say something. Regardless of whether the deaths en masse of poor black folks in New Orleans is due to neglect or maliciousness, the end result is constructively a genocide on poor blacks in America, right now, in 2005. The lack of aid to New Orleans at this late hour (7 pm, Sept. 1) is not explicable. I have only one explanation that I can muster up. And that explanation is classism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:22am PDT
The catastrophe that is unfolding in New Orleans and on the Gulf coast of Mississippi has been transformed into a national humiliation without parallel in the history of the United States....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 11:02pm PDT
The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:11pm PDT
New Orleans, LA (emergingminds.org) - Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, one web surfer on an Atlanta message board did not let the disaster blind him of how racist the media in American remains. A message board poster with the alias “Noah_The_African” pointed out a prime example of how America’s racist media will quickly portray African Americans in a different light than White Americans even in a time of crisis....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:09pm PDT
Saving Social Security from privatization will be a major theme at Labor Day celebrations around the country, as members of Congress prepare to head back to Washington. Working people are determined to put Congress on notice that any proposal that undermines or privatizes Social Security is not acceptable and must be voted down. As was done in the 1930s to win Social Security and other social legislation, a massive outpouring can achieve not only protection of Social Security, but expansion o...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:05pm PDT
While President Bush joked and strummed a guitar, Hurricane Katrina brought devastation to low-income African American communities in Mississippi and Louisiana. With state National Guard members dispatched to Iraq, much of the burden of reducing the human misery will fall upon relief agencies, most prominently the American Red Cross. Unfortunately, as San Franciscans learned after the 1989 earthquake, the Red Cross feels no obligation to spend money raised from a particular tragedy for the pu...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 5:00pm PDT
How New Orleans Was Lost
by Paul Craig Roberts
Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war.
There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:39am PDT