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Red Cross not allowed into New Orleans by government
after reading dKos and the other blogs all week and seeing over and over again comments that that FEMA and the NG were no where to be seen from the people on the ground in NO, I was wondering where the Red Cross was in all this. They were never mentioned. It was like they didn't exist. And, after yesterday's drama at the convention center, the Brown and Chertoff lies, the Red Cross was still MIA. Then, earlier today, I saw a note that the Red Cross was not allowed to enter NO. Hmm, that's doe...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina
African American lawmakers have expressed outrage and blamed U.S. President George W. Bush for the "slow and incomplete response" to the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:48pm PDT
Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina
Race has a lot to do with who's suffering and who isn't after hurricane Katrina. But wild accusations of racism will only make matters worse for all of New Orleans' poor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:20pm 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
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
Native Hawaiian groups and allies rally to protect sacred sites and environment from U.S.
Convoys and marching groups will converge at sacred birthing stones to protest U.S. militarism and imperialism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:05pm 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
Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response to Katrina?
Race and class loom large in the critical discussion of the federal response to the impact of hurricane Katrina. We speak with two African-American activists about the poor communities that have been hit hardest by the hurricane....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 7:40am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting
Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am 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
New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good
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
Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer During Hurricane Katrina Coverage
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
Former Black Panther Jailed for Not Testifying at State Grand Jury!
A judge has jailed a former member of the Black Panther Party for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the killings of two San Francisco police officers in the early 1970s....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 5:47pm PDT
Coffee and Epithets: An Update on Race Relations in Cincinnati
There was a race riot in Cincinnati in April 2001, rooted in years of conflicts between the police force and black population and set off by the shooting of an unarmed black man. I recently left the Bay Area for a stint in the Queen City, as she's known, and got a glimpse of modern race relations in Cincinnati....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 2:46pm PDT
Black Activist Ntwk. Coordinating Aid for Louisiana
The Black Action Network needs your help in putting together community activist
groups who want to help in
any kind of way. The Black Action Network originates from south Louisiana....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 11:03am PDT
Willy Wonka and the Racism Factory
An in-depth critique of Tim Burton’s 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 6:43am PDT
Environmental Racism: How Minority Communities Are Exposed to "Toxic Soup"
We speak with Damu Smith, founder of Black Voices for Peace and executive director of the National Black Environmental Justice Network about environmental racism. Smith says, "People, black and white and Latino, who live in these [heavy industrial] areas are exposed to toxic soup of chemicals regularly released into the air, into the soil, into the water."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 7:59am PDT
Nationwide boycott of eBay's Nazi policies
A nationwide boycott of eBay is protesting eBay's hypocrisy regarding Nazi items that glorify Nazism. Ebay abets sales of Nazi stamps and coins, for example. eBay's Nazi stamps and coins show offensive items that were made by Nazis to glorify Nazism, Hitler, hatred & racism.
Hypocritically, eBay banned the sale of a historic photograph of the USA's original Pledge of Allegiance (which was the origin of the Nazi salute) while allowing Nazi stamps that show the Nazi flag saluted....
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 1:21am PDT
Walking While Black And Gay in Toronto Canada
Racism and homophobia alive and well in Toronto Canada...
Posted: Sat, Aug 27, 2005 9:47am PDT