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Why was relief so long in coming? Thank God for Ted Koppel, the reporters in New Orleans and Harry Connick Jr.
Without them asking the tough questions and shedding light on the poor rescue and relief efforts, hurricane victims in New Orleans still would have no food, no water and no protection. They still would be dying in the streets or threatened by gunmen with rifles and AK-47s....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 1:37pm PDT
New Orleans crisis shames Americans At the end of an unforgettable week, one broadcaster on Friday bitterly encapsulated the sense of burning shame and anger that many American citizens are feeling....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:27pm PDT
The “New Poor” Versus The “Old Poor”: Who Gets Prioritized? 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
Superdome evacuation on hold Up to 5,000 remaining refugees remain calm despite putrid conditions...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:59am PDT
Fires burn along river; rescue effort grinds on As the struggle continued to rescue victims from floodwaters and evacuate people from New Orleans, two major fires raged along the waterfront Saturday morning....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:58am PDT
New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Sends Elite Aid/Rescue Team to New Orleans Disast heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
Notes From Inside New Orleans 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
Save The Fong Building Fax Blast Action Friends, Allies and Social Justice Activists- The San Francisco Community Land Trust is proud to join with the Asian Law Caucus and Chinatown Community Development Corporation in a campaign to save the Fong Building. The building now houses dozens of working-class Chinese tenants, and is one of the only non-SRO residential buildings in Chinatown. Sadly, City College of San Francisco, the owner, is moving forward to trade this public land to a for-profit developer, for a small piece of land cl...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:39pm PDT
New Orleans and Baghdad—two sides of the same policy 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
Evacuee bus overturns in La.; one killed One Hurricane Katrina evacuee died and many others were injured when a bus carrying them from the Superdome swerved across a highway median and overturned Friday....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:14pm PDT
National Guardsmen Reach New Orleans More than four days after Hurricane Katrina struck, the National Guard arrived in force Friday with food, water and weapons, churning through the floodwaters in a vast truck convoy that was met with both catcalls and cries of "Thank you, Jesus!" from the suffering multitudes....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:11pm PDT
Help ACORN Fight for Hurricane Relief for All 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
Katrina: a tragedy made worse 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
'This is criminal': Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans 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
Hurricane Katrina: Help the poor endure by Marc Morial, former two-term mayor of New Orleans...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:57pm PDT
Religious Right claims Hurricane Katrina is the Wrath of God A truly Awe-inspiring monument to bigotry, stupidity, and small mindedness. This one leaves me speechless....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 4:41pm PDT
Emergency Rally Today! Rescue not Repression in New Orleans! - 4 pm - Powell & Market Emergency Rally Today - Friday - at Powell and Market 4 PM.
We Demand Rescue, not Repression!
The World Can't Wait - Drive out the Bush Regime!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 3:35pm PDT
Powers that be in New Orleans: Save the white people (and the property) first! *********At midday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the line to be evacuated — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since Sunday.*************...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 1:40pm PDT
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