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Survivors From New Orleans Speak Out About Week of Horror We go to Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans where thousands of hurricane survivors are staying. The airport has become a triage center where the oldest, the youngest and the sickest lay desperate for help....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:57am PDT
Shocked Africans wonder at slow aid after Katrina ABUJA (Reuters) - Many Africans, accustomed to humanitarian disasters on their own continent, feel empathy toward Americans suffering in the wake of hurricane Katrina and share their disappointment at the U.S. government's response....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:12am PDT
Way Below The Poverty (and Water) Line People walking aimlessly in the streets. Food preparation on the sidewalk. People pushing shopping carts on the bridges and causeways filled with blankets, bits of clothes and a half-consumed jug of water. Homeless people? Panhandlers? Recyclers? No, survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the ravaged streets of Mississippi, New Orleans and parts of Florida....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:02am PDT
New Orleans - awash in corpses NEW Orleans turned much of its attention to gathering and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in thousands of corpses. ”It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine,” the US homeland security chief warned....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 7:47am PDT
Sen. Landrieu Threatens to 'Punch' President if He Keeps Hitting Local Response to Katrina Senator Mary Landrieu, the Democrat of Louisiana (whose father was a mayor of New Orleans), appears to have finally found her voice after offering only cautious criticism of the federal relief effort in the hurriance catastrophe earlier in the week. Today she promised to literally "punch" anyone, "including the president," who contnued to question the local response to the tragedy, considering the gross federal misconduct....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:33pm PDT
Action Alert: Rally for Relief Action Alert: Rally for Relief
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:30pm-6pm
San Francisco & Oakland
San Francisco Federal Building 4:30-6pm
450 Golden Gate Avenue (@ Larkin Street)
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 10:31pm PDT
Semi-poor guy wants to move to SF area How expensive is it to live in SF (and East Bay, etc.) compared to places like Portland, Oregon?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 7:53pm PDT
50,000 feared dead in New Orleans 9th Ward; More Addresses for Donations for Survivors This article has lots of addresses to where you can send money that goes directly to the survivors of the US Govt's attempted genocide in New Orleans. One estimate now is that some 50,000 people have died in the lower 9th ward. We all hope that is not true; for now, we must help the living and affirm our commitment to stopping genocide....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 7:10pm PDT
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans Latest commentary from Michael Parenti on the tragedy ay New Orleans...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:40pm PDT
UK survivors criticise British response as 150 still missing The Foreign Office has come under heavy criticism from British survivors of Hurricane Katrina for its failure to help those caught up in the disaster as up to 150 Britons were revealed to be unaccounted for....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:33pm PDT
Tell Bush & Congress: Accept Cuba's offer to send doctors to the hurricane victims! ...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 4:40pm PDT
Two colossal manmade disasters: Katrina and Alan What becomes obvious when a Katrina comes along is that for the many "born to lead," there is only a scant few "committed to serve."...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 3:39pm PDT
Katrina Open Letter to Radical/Progressive Community Introspective call for mutual aid to victims of both Hurricane Katrina and a failed system of government....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 2:46pm PDT
Las aporías de Nueva Orleans y las tareas de la resistencia See also the "Shaka Sankofa" and the "English" sections in the Clajadep web http://clajadep.lahaine.org...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 2:39pm PDT
An Angry 'Times-Picayune' Calls for Firing of FEMA Chief The Times-Picayune of New Orleans on Sunday published its third print edition since the hurricane disaster struck, chronicling the arrival, finally, of some relief but also taking President Bush to task for his handling of the crisis, and calling for the firing of FEMA director Michael Brown and others....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 1:09pm PDT
Audio And Video From New Orleans Survivors In Houston Reposts from houston...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:59am PDT
Mayor Nagin: Response still isn't enough Viewed from the windows of a low-flying Blackhawk helicopter, the scope of Hurricane Katrina's destruction becomes clearer. The Causeway is like a broken spine, large sections of roadway listing disconcertingly into the brown water of Lake Pontchartrain. The modest homes in the Lower 9th Ward have been uprooted and are crushed together in clots like bumper cars. Pyramid-shaped rooftops are all that can be seen of many suburban-style houses in the Lakeview neighborhood. And the expanses of sma...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:02am PDT
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
New Orleans To Start Body Count As the last weary evacuees from the Superdome and convention center headed to shelters, New Orleans drew closer to dealing with its dead, a gruesome landscape of corpses expected to number in the thousands....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:59am PDT
Dysentery outbreak feared Authorities faced a deteriorating and disturbing public health crisis from Hurricane Katrina on Saturday as bodies continued to wash ashore after five days at sea and a possible dysentery outbreak shut down a shelter for hundreds....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:56am PDT
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