ONLINE RESOURCES
updated March 17, 06
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Ongoing Aid: Donate
Housing
- Craigslist: Rooms
for rent
- Craigslist: All Aid Listings
- no-heat.org - Updates on the housing crisis by the New Orleans Housing Emergency Action Team
- St. Jude's Community Center at 600 N. Rampart is operating as an
emergency shelter for women, Ozanam house at 843 Camp St. is
operating as a men's shelter, and Bridge House at 1160 Camp st. is
open.
Medical Care
Networking and Information:
Missing Persons
Other Resources
Background on the area: The vulnerability of coastal Louisiana to hurricanes has dramatically increased in recent decades due to wetland loss from canal building, sediment deprivation, and oil and gas development and lack of investment in hurricane protection levees. The economic well-being of commercial fishing towns in the affected region has declined recently because of corporate globalization driving down shrimp and crab prices to levels not seen for decades while fuel prices hit record highs. Read this excellent compilation of resources on South Louisiana's economy, society, and ecology in the context of hurricane vulnerability.
More independent reporting on the New Orleans diaspora available on Houston Indymedia.
On March 25, 2006, at 2 p.m., community members, doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, hospital employees, politicians, and political activists will be meeting outside of New Orleans’ Charity Hospital to protest the closure of this esteemed public institution. Considered the oldest continuously running public hospital in the country, Charity has cared for thousands of members of the New Orleans community for two centuries. These New Orleans residents are now largely without access to healthcare and have been forced to rely entirely on understaffed emergency rooms for basic health needs, such as monthly prescriptions and routine medical complaints. This shift has caused a healthcare catastrophe in the New Orleans metropolitan area and will be the focus of this rally, along with a discussion of the future of Charity Hospital and the fate of this city’s uninsured.
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The following is an audio recording of the Safe Streets/Strong Communites March 16th presentation to the New Orleans City council on the interactions of the NOPD and the people of New Orleans. Safe Streets called for a reform of the NOPD and the creation of an independent monitor, but the City Council has refused to fund creation of the monitor's office since it was ordered to in 2002.
Books 2 Prisoners
831 Elysian Fields Box# 143
New Orleans, LA 70117
9th Ward Residence praise Common Ground Relief and demand clean up by Jefferson Pelosi and Blanco while touring the 9th ward.
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