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Common Ground Wellness Center in Algiers, New Orleans
On September 14, I visited the Common Ground Wellness Center at 1401 Teche St. in Algiers, New Orleans and had the opportunity to speak with Noah, a volunteer medic from Providence, Rhode Island. (22:02 minutes / 9.4 MB)
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Noah discusses the reasons for medical volunteers coming to New Orleans and how they were able to mobilize, the goods and services provided at the clinic, the background of the volunteers, the response of the military to the clinic, the truth about large charity organizations, the role of anarchism in medical aid and how community members feel about the medical clinic and volunteers.
Noah also expresses his anger at the humanitarian crisis caused by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and the directors of FEMA and the Armed Services who are planing to turn New Orleans into a rich white disneyland on the Mississippi River.
Common Ground Wellness Center
1401 Teche St. at Socrates
Home visits are also available
504-361-9659
http://neworleans.indymedia.org
* Note, the last three photos are of the media lab and Malik and Sharon's house on Atlantic Ave. The first nine photos are from the Common Ground Wellness Center on Teche St.
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If you can make it out to Texas, Mississippi or Louisiana, your help is definitely needed.
Also, if you can donate money to support independent media for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, that would be very helpful as well.
Vinny and I have put out a request for donations. Please read the following article for information on one important way that you can help out. thanks.
Support Independent Media in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18525/index.php
Noah also expresses his anger at the humanitarian crisis caused by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and the directors of FEMA and the Armed Services who are planing to turn New Orleans into a rich white disneyland on the Mississippi River.
Common Ground Wellness Center
1401 Teche St. at Socrates
Home visits are also available
504-361-9659
http://neworleans.indymedia.org
* Note, the last three photos are of the media lab and Malik and Sharon's house on Atlantic Ave. The first nine photos are from the Common Ground Wellness Center on Teche St.
* *
If you can make it out to Texas, Mississippi or Louisiana, your help is definitely needed.
Also, if you can donate money to support independent media for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, that would be very helpful as well.
Vinny and I have put out a request for donations. Please read the following article for information on one important way that you can help out. thanks.
Support Independent Media in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18525/index.php
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I know some folks who have 9 hands-free, foot operated, hand washing stations if these would be useful. They have sent some down to the Gulf disaster area already.
These units were created by festival volunteers 20 years ago and are currently in use at a rural music festival in N.Carolina. They are very low tech, folding structures, easy to transport and erect.
Please contact me if this would solve any sanitation problems for either this clinic or local community kitchens.
These units were created by festival volunteers 20 years ago and are currently in use at a rural music festival in N.Carolina. They are very low tech, folding structures, easy to transport and erect.
Please contact me if this would solve any sanitation problems for either this clinic or local community kitchens.
Just a comment. I was searching for a website for the Common Ground Collective so I could add it to one of the many many letters I've written to kind-hearted people, trying to encourage them to fundraise for RebuildGreen.org or the Common Ground Collective, instead of the American Red Cross. If it's here, it s not obvious. I may just be too tired, but I did a websearch for it and came up with this and many other articles, but not with a website for the Common Ground Collective. Thanks for the article, though. And for your efforts. --Ann G.
On MALIK RAHIM: Yesterday's Radicals Devolve into Today's (feelgood-checkbook) Liberalism
- by Joseph Anderson, Berkeley, California Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2005 at 1:56 PM
Yesterday's Radical Consciousness Has Devolved into Today's "Just Get Over" (feelgood or checkbook) Liberalism
by Joseph Anderson,
"Joseph from Berkeley"
October 4, 2005
Last night (Mon, Oct 3) at Berkeley's Unitarian Fellowship MALIK RAHIM, former Black Panther, community activist from and speaker on the Common Ground Wellness Center in Algiers, New Orleans, said that he was "NOT POLITICAL" and that, "HE WAS GOING TO RUN ANYONE, WHO COMES TO NEW ORLEANS TALKING ABOUT POLITICS, _OUTTA TOWN_!!"
(See event: http://indybay.org/calendar/event_display_detail.php?event_id=7721&day=3&month=10&year=2005 )
Rahim said this when informed about the fact that not only was the U.S. spending *over* A BILLION DOLLARS EVERY WEEK IN IRAQ -- which I hope he knew -- but that the U.S. was funding Israel's relocation of Jewish Gaza settlers to FREE HOMES in the West Bank and at least $250,000 (or was it $350,000 *APIECE* spending money)! Furthermore, those Jewish Gaza settlers were originally moved into the Gaza strip *ILLEGALLY*, according to internaitonal law, for FREE too! So, Israel has a lavish "housing program" -- paid for by U.S. taxpayers, including flood victims in New Orleans -- but those flood victims don't. The U.S. military has a great (and air-conditioned) housing program in Iraq -- whole ALL-AMENITIES-&-CONVENIENCES, *WELL*-FED military *CITIES* with banks of electrical generators, constructed IN THE *DESERT* -- but the New Orleans flood victims don't.
When asked, "WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND DEMOCRACY?," Rahim said, "I don't have any time for democracy, I only care about survival!" Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't GEORGE BUSH SAY THE VERY SAME THING as he carves away our civil liberties and the Bill of Rights?
Furthermore, how does Malik Rahim get to decide for the people of New Orleans what they get to hear? Or is this former Black (or is it "Negro") Panther turned, indeed, common street thug? In other words, "IF YOU DISAGREE WITH WHAT *I* SAY, I'MO RUN YO' ASS OUTTA TOWN!"
Later on, Rahim said that the problem [presumably with liberals/leftists] is that we need to come together in PEACE...
[read the rest: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1772589.php ]
- by Joseph Anderson, Berkeley, California Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2005 at 1:56 PM
Yesterday's Radical Consciousness Has Devolved into Today's "Just Get Over" (feelgood or checkbook) Liberalism
by Joseph Anderson,
"Joseph from Berkeley"
October 4, 2005
Last night (Mon, Oct 3) at Berkeley's Unitarian Fellowship MALIK RAHIM, former Black Panther, community activist from and speaker on the Common Ground Wellness Center in Algiers, New Orleans, said that he was "NOT POLITICAL" and that, "HE WAS GOING TO RUN ANYONE, WHO COMES TO NEW ORLEANS TALKING ABOUT POLITICS, _OUTTA TOWN_!!"
(See event: http://indybay.org/calendar/event_display_detail.php?event_id=7721&day=3&month=10&year=2005 )
Rahim said this when informed about the fact that not only was the U.S. spending *over* A BILLION DOLLARS EVERY WEEK IN IRAQ -- which I hope he knew -- but that the U.S. was funding Israel's relocation of Jewish Gaza settlers to FREE HOMES in the West Bank and at least $250,000 (or was it $350,000 *APIECE* spending money)! Furthermore, those Jewish Gaza settlers were originally moved into the Gaza strip *ILLEGALLY*, according to internaitonal law, for FREE too! So, Israel has a lavish "housing program" -- paid for by U.S. taxpayers, including flood victims in New Orleans -- but those flood victims don't. The U.S. military has a great (and air-conditioned) housing program in Iraq -- whole ALL-AMENITIES-&-CONVENIENCES, *WELL*-FED military *CITIES* with banks of electrical generators, constructed IN THE *DESERT* -- but the New Orleans flood victims don't.
When asked, "WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND DEMOCRACY?," Rahim said, "I don't have any time for democracy, I only care about survival!" Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't GEORGE BUSH SAY THE VERY SAME THING as he carves away our civil liberties and the Bill of Rights?
Furthermore, how does Malik Rahim get to decide for the people of New Orleans what they get to hear? Or is this former Black (or is it "Negro") Panther turned, indeed, common street thug? In other words, "IF YOU DISAGREE WITH WHAT *I* SAY, I'MO RUN YO' ASS OUTTA TOWN!"
Later on, Rahim said that the problem [presumably with liberals/leftists] is that we need to come together in PEACE...
[read the rest: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/10/1772589.php ]
maybe, Malik Rahim had something for lunch that was disagreeable
after all, I interviewed two people involved in the Common Ground relief effort in Algiers on KDVS last Friday, and, believe me, neither of them had any problem talking very directly about the political context of the hurricane
especially, this hard left guy from DC who was volunteering down there, who concluded with a forceful commentary
anyone who wants to listen, go here, and download (through Friday, 10/7 at 5pm only) from the links at the top center of the page
http://www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/showme.cfm?show=114&title=SpeakinginTongues&back_grid
so, I wouldn't take what Malik said in Berkeley quite so seriously
--Richard
after all, I interviewed two people involved in the Common Ground relief effort in Algiers on KDVS last Friday, and, believe me, neither of them had any problem talking very directly about the political context of the hurricane
especially, this hard left guy from DC who was volunteering down there, who concluded with a forceful commentary
anyone who wants to listen, go here, and download (through Friday, 10/7 at 5pm only) from the links at the top center of the page
http://www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/showme.cfm?show=114&title=SpeakinginTongues&back_grid
so, I wouldn't take what Malik said in Berkeley quite so seriously
--Richard
maybe, Malik Rahim had something for lunch that was disagreeable
after all, I interviewed two people involved in the Common Ground relief effort in Algiers on KDVS last Friday, and, believe me, neither of them had any problem talking very directly about the political context of the hurricane
especially, this hard left guy from DC who was volunteering down there, who concluded with a forceful commentary
anyone who wants to listen, go here, and download (through Friday, 10/7 at 5pm only) from the links at the top center of the page
http://www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/showme.cfm?show=114&title=SpeakinginTongues&back_grid
so, I wouldn't take what Malik said in Berkeley quite so seriously
--Richard
after all, I interviewed two people involved in the Common Ground relief effort in Algiers on KDVS last Friday, and, believe me, neither of them had any problem talking very directly about the political context of the hurricane
especially, this hard left guy from DC who was volunteering down there, who concluded with a forceful commentary
anyone who wants to listen, go here, and download (through Friday, 10/7 at 5pm only) from the links at the top center of the page
http://www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/showme.cfm?show=114&title=SpeakinginTongues&back_grid
so, I wouldn't take what Malik said in Berkeley quite so seriously
--Richard
maybe, Malik Rahim had something for lunch that was disagreeable
after all, I interviewed two people involved in the Common Ground relief effort in Algiers on KDVS last Friday, and, believe me, neither of them had any problem talking very directly about the political context of the hurricane
especially, this hard left guy from DC who was volunteering down there, who concluded with a forceful commentary
anyone who wants to listen, go here, and download (through Friday, 10/7 at 5pm only) from the links at the top center of the page
http://www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/showme.cfm?show=114&title=SpeakinginTongues&back_grid
so, I wouldn't take what Malik said in Berkeley quite so seriously
--Richard
after all, I interviewed two people involved in the Common Ground relief effort in Algiers on KDVS last Friday, and, believe me, neither of them had any problem talking very directly about the political context of the hurricane
especially, this hard left guy from DC who was volunteering down there, who concluded with a forceful commentary
anyone who wants to listen, go here, and download (through Friday, 10/7 at 5pm only) from the links at the top center of the page
http://www.asucd.ucdavis.edu/radio/showme.cfm?show=114&title=SpeakinginTongues&back_grid
so, I wouldn't take what Malik said in Berkeley quite so seriously
--Richard
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