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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
Louisiana Gov. Blanco says Army brought attitude, not resources Even as teams of engineers worked to patch ruptured levees in New Orleans, a political breach opened between Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush over who is in charge of the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery effort....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:27am PDT
America needs change not charity Withholding aid from the United States is the only way to remove its domestic and foreign policy blinkers, writes Nick Cater...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:25am PDT
FEMA On August 29th: First Responders Urged Not To Respond Release Date: August 29, 2005
Release Number: HQ-05-174
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), today urged all fire and emergency services departments not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and lawfully dispatched by state and local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assis...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 10:42pm PDT
Pumps sucking water from flooded city Even as the Army Corps of Engineers made progress removing water from New Orleans, the city's deputy police chief urged remaining residents Monday to get out because there was no power, drinkable water or food supply....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:00pm PDT
Rev. Jackson: Return evacuees to Louisiana The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who on Sunday delivered a blistering critique of the slow efforts to rescue hurricane victims in New Orleans, shifted his focus Monday to what’s going to happen to those evacuees in the coming weeks....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 4:56pm PDT
Despite distress, some victims refuse to leave Many residents of New Orleans who live in the few areas on high ground that escaped flood waters say they will defy official requests for them to abandon their homes....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 4:35pm PDT
Texarkana pilot witnesses alligators in New Orleans Don Ruggles may forever have a vision of an alligator trying to get into the attic of a flooded New Orleans home.
It was recorded on videotape while Ruggles was piloting one of his helicopters in the rescue efforts of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 3:32pm PDT
Flood of food-stamp requests from those hit by Hurricane Food stamps have suddenly become a way of life for thousands of Louisianans who had never before sought public assistance, according to data provided Monday by the state Department of Social Services....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 3:24pm PDT
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