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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
Photos of Oakland Rally Slamming Government's Hurricane Relief 
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 9:31pm PDT
Audio From Speakers At The Sept 6th Oakland Rally for Katrina Relief (audio/mpeg 2.2MB) For Photos of many of these speakers see http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/09/1765462.php...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:26pm 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
Pictures Of Speakers At The Sept 6th Oakland Rally for Katrina Relief 
Here are pictures of some of the speakers. Names and audio will be added over the next few days....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:58pm PDT
Pictures From Sept 6th Oakland Rally for Relief 
Around 100 people showed up to protest the slow federal response to provide aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:36pm 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
Fire in New Orleans historic district 
NEW ORLEANS A blaze today in a historic New Orleans district of mostly wooden homes has fired up some complaints about the response.
National Guardsmen cordoned off the area in the lower Garden District as New Orleans firefighters battled the blaze....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:34pm 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
The Smoking Gun: Navy Ship sits unused awaiting Bush's orders, while Bush ate cake (video/x-ms-wmv 1.2MB) After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras.
Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush's orders.
In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander Sean Kelly ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:07am 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
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