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Sat. 10AM Oakland: Meet, Support Gulf Coast Families Saturday, September 10th, 10 am – 12:30 pm
at the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OAKLAND
2501 Harrison Street, Oakland...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 4:54pm 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
How San Francisco Should Help Hurricane Victims The talk of the town yesterday was about how San Francisco should deal with the Hurricane victims. Should 200-300 public housing units be given to New Orleans’ families ahead of San Franciscans who have spent years on the waiting list? Is there any plans for a comprehensive approach involving jobs, childcare, housing subsidies, and school assistance for those to be temporarily housed at St. Mary’s Cathedral? It’s easy to offer short-term help, but San Francisco’s political leaders should allo...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:13am 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
Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:07am 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
Rebuilding New Orleans may cost as much as war in Iraq New Orleans Roads, sewers and pipes will have to be replaced as draining of city reveals huge task...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:00am PDT
Mayor orders forced removal of all in city of New Orleans (New Orleans, LA, Sept. 6, 2005) Mayor Nagin today released a declaration of Emergency Order for the City of New Orleans. The declaration reads as follows:...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 10:09pm PDT
Oakland Rally Vents Outrage at Government's Woeful Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts Numerous community leaders spoke, with a number blaming poverty, racism, and the Bush Administration, for the government's unacceptable performance....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:12pm PDT
9/7 at 12pm in SF: WCW Responds Hurricane Katrina Emergency press Conference: On Hurricane Katrina called by the World Can't Wait
Drive out the Bush Regime - Wed Sep 7 at noon @ SF Federal Bldg, 450 Golden Gate SF...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 4:03pm PDT
9/7 in San Jose: Community Speak Out Support Hurricane Victims! National Day of Emergency
Community Speak Out Support Hurricane Victims!
Wednesday, September 7 at 5PM
Outside MLK Jr. Library
San Fernando and Fourth St., San Jose...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 3:04pm 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
E. Coli bacteria detected in New Orleans floodwater Floodwater in New Orleans is contaminated with E. coli bacteria, a city official told CNN Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:28pm PDT
New Orleans mayor warns that 10,000 may have died; Times-Picayune wants mass FEMA firings The Times-Picayune, Louisiana's largest newspaper, published an open letter to Bush, called for the firing of every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ``We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry,'' the editorial said..... ``Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially".......
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:26am 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
Plan to Move Astrodome Evacuees on Hold A plan to move some Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Houston Astrodome to cruise ships was postponed Tuesday because many didn't want to go, and a proposed airlift of refugees out of strained Texas appeared to be on hold after the federal government took over....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:06am 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
Katrina Survivors: difference between the haves and the have-nots Hotel is a microcosm of evacuee experience...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:53am PDT
Louisiana Gov. Blanco says Army brought attitude, not resources Even as teams of engineers worked to patch ruptured levees in New Orleans, a political breach opened between Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush over who is in charge of the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery effort....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:27am PDT
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