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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
they have a name for the flood waters that have invaded the New Orleans: Lake George ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:30am PDT
Muni Fare Strike Bulletin 1st Day Report "[E]verywhere fare strike organizers went during the course of the day, out-of-sight of the occupied transit hubs, we found riders willing and eager to participate in the fare strike, and found few drivers interested in being the fare police."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 10:36am PDT
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush 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
Genocide americano en New Orleans 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
A Southern US Anarchist Statement on the Gulf Coast Disaster 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
Mayor's anger boils over in New Orleans "They don't have a clue what's going on down there," Mayor Ray Nagin told WWL-AM Thursday night. "They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn - excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 7:35am PDT
Venezuela’s Chavez Puts Aside Animosity & Offers Aid To US Fri. Sept. 2, 2005: Venezuelan President Hug Chavez is putting aside politics and offering planeloads of soldiers and aid workers to help American victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:52am PDT
New Orleans rocked by blasts, military move in New Orleans has been hit by a series of massive explosions -- fires are raging and extra troops have been sent in to help quell the lawlessness....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:38am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
NATO offers help to hurricane-hit U.S NATO stands ready to help its biggest member, the United States, after it suffered heavy damage from the Hurricane Katrina, the head of the alliance said on Friday....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:27am PDT
Genocide in New Orleans 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
Genocide in New Orleans Perpetrated by US Capitalism We are witnessing genocide of the black workingclass community of New Orleans and the exposure of the rottenness of American capitalism in its refusal to adequately respond to the disaster from the latest hurricane....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 11:37pm PDT
The hurricane disaster: US capitalism stands disgraced 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
100 dead in Chalmette, New Orleans After Being Pulled Off Roofs But Not Receiving Aid About 100 people have died at the Chalmette Slip after
being pulled off their rooftops, waiting to be ferried
up the river to the West Bank and bused out of the
flood ravaged area, U.S. Rep. Charles Melancon,
D-Napoleonville, said Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:26pm PDT
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