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New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Sends Elite Aid/Rescue Team to New Orleans Disast heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
Notes From Inside New Orleans Yes, I stayed through the storm and aftermath. I'm fine - much better off than most of my brother and sister hurricane survivors. Below is my attempt to relay some of what I've seen these last few days....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:54pm PDT
narrow escape from martial law A true story about last minute escape from flooded city of new orleans from a friend via email...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:52pm PDT
Lockout at the CBC—“Canada’s public broadcaster” The lockout of 5,500 journalists and technicians at the federal government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) threatens to be prolonged. Taking its cue from the corporate media giants and Canada’s Liberal government, CBC management is seeking to impose a new business model in which an ever-larger proportion of its employees will be contract workers with little or no job security....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:35pm PDT
New Orleans and Baghdad—two sides of the same policy As US National Guard troops—just returned from Iraq—moved into New Orleans Friday with “shoot-to-kill” orders, and Blackhawk helicopters flew over the city, the essential unity between the policies pursued by Washington at home and abroad found stark expression....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:29pm PDT
New Orleans: We are on our own In the US, white people can't imagine black people who are just like them...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:28pm 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
Evacuee bus overturns in La.; one killed One Hurricane Katrina evacuee died and many others were injured when a bus carrying them from the Superdome swerved across a highway median and overturned Friday....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:14pm PDT
National Guardsmen Reach New Orleans More than four days after Hurricane Katrina struck, the National Guard arrived in force Friday with food, water and weapons, churning through the floodwaters in a vast truck convoy that was met with both catcalls and cries of "Thank you, Jesus!" from the suffering multitudes....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:11pm PDT
Help ACORN Fight for Hurricane Relief for All We write to ask your help for ACORN, a group that that needs your help now so that they can provide critical help to those in need and continue to hold public officials accountable...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:10pm PDT
Hurricane Katrina and companion animals DawnWatch: Hurricane Katrina and companion animals -- 9/1/05...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:06pm 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
Hurricane Katrina: Help the poor endure by Marc Morial, former two-term mayor of New Orleans...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:57pm PDT
Can you create a petition to call for Bush's impeachment or resignation over Katrina?? ....city and state officials and the Corps of Engineers had repeatedly requested funding to strengthen the levees along Lake Pontchartrain that breeched in the wake of the flood. But the Bush administration rebuffed the requests repeatedly, reprograming the funding from levee enhancement to Homeland Security and the war on Iraq. ....Work on the 17th Street levee, which breached on Monday night, came to a halt earlier this summer for the lack of $2 million. "It appears that the money has...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 4:02pm PDT
Michael Parenti: How the Free Market Killed New Orleans ....tens of thousands of people had failed to flee because they had nowhere to go and no means of getting there..... The free market played a role in other ways. Bush's agenda is to cut government services to the bone and make people rely on the private sector for the things they might need. So he sliced $71.2 million from the budget of the New Orleans Corps of Engineers, a 44 percent reduction. Plans to fortify New Orleans levees and upgrade the system of pumping out water had to be shelved....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 3:46pm 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
Bring the National Guard HOME Now And where is
our National Guard and all their equipment that are supposed to be here to
protect and save us?...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 10:07am 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
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