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National Guard: "Stand up to unlawful orders; remember, you are CITIZEN and a SOLDIER SOLDIERMEDIC 2005-09-03 11:57 PM
The following letter from an anonymous soldier appears in today's Sept 3 issue of the "GI-Special" daily GI newsletter. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Urgent Request from New Orleans anon 2005-09-03 11:20 PM
Many individuals know the exact locations and WORKING telephone numbers of family members, most of whom are elderly, sickly, starving, and in serious need of medical attention. When able to get through on emergency telephone numbers, a feat not to be taken lightly, they are dismissed or told that dispatch would be sent immediately, yet no one has come. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Zine Featureing Jordan Flaherty and Malik Rahim The Alarm 2005-09-03 11:09 PM
a zine with the essays writen by Jordan Flaherty and Malik Hakim from NOLA about the social conditions in NOLA before and after the storm. (application/pdf + 1 comment)

Rebuilding New Orleans and affected areas U.S. Citizen 2005-09-03 10:40 PM
Reconstruction of New Orleans and affected areas should be done by the very citizens and businesses which have been displaced. Federal, State, and Local agencies must put these people back to work cleaning up, building and sharing in the years of hard work needed to get the Gulf coast economy back up and running. (text/plain + 1 comment)

New Orleans Refugees Being Sent to Toxic Waste Dump in Arkansas Bison William 2005-09-03 9:35 PM
I live in Fort Smith Arkansas and 360 people from NO have been shipped to an old army base outside our town. The problem is the base barracks they have put the people in is listed as a toxic waste dump. The barracks are so inundated with lead paint that the people that have to get around them wear masks so they don't have to breathe the fumes coming off them. (text/plain + 4 comments)

New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying Globe And Mail 2005-09-03 9:07 PM
Bush's Murder of New Orleans: No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways. (text/plain)

defend the working class of New Orleans X 2005-09-03 8:35 PM
"This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard's Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission (text/plain + 1 comment)

Gone with the Water National Geographic 2005-09-03 8:31 PM
Old National Geographic article forells the devastation: "Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States." "When did this calamity happen? It hasn't -- yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched..." It happened. (text/plain + 2 comments)

The New Orleans flood was preventable! Rese Searcher 2005-09-03 8:10 PM
It wasn't Mother nature but Farther Government Today Michael Chertoff spoke about all that Homeland Security was doing about the New Orleans flood, blaming it on mother nature. read between the lines (text/plain)

Robert King Wilkerson? Jimmy O'Halligan 2005-09-03 7:28 PM
A3 supporters looking for Robert King Wilkerson. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Katrina is a problem greater than funding cuts to the Corps Brian Azcona 2005-09-03 7:12 PM
Mainstream media accounts of the policy failures of Katrina have focused on funding cuts to the Army Corps of Engineers. This article explores how a Corps' project, MR-GO, was responsible for flooding, and its refusal to address the problem was not a consequence of funding cuts. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Is Hurricane Katrina a natural disaster or a crisis in public policy? Brian Azcona 2005-09-03 7:01 PM
This article provides social and environmental history to illustrate the policies and economic activities that made Louisiana and New Orleans so vulnerable to Katrina. It provides specific examples which reveal how government failed to correct the growing environmental risks despite citizen outcry. (text/plain)

Last Doctor Leaves Charity Christian Roselund 2005-09-03 6:10 PM
Dr. Rene Morrisey walked through the doors of Charity Hospital-New Orleans Friday night, accompanied by two armed guards, and shut them on the empty hospital. All of the staff and the last of the patients were evacuated Friday, September 2nd. (text/plain + 10 comments)

Where to give: Grassroots/Low-income/POC-led relief relief at sparkplugfoundation dot org 2005-09-03 5:55 PM
Targeting donations for democratic rebuilding: relief efforts led by, and/or accountable to, low-income people, people of color and local people in NOLA and other affected areas. (text/plain)

KATRINA: 10 ways you can help disaster victims wdc 2005-09-03 4:05 PM
Key organizations aiding displaced, injured residents of hurricane-ravaged areas (text/plain + 8 comments)

Blank Panther, Green Party veteran reports from New Orleans Direct Action 2005-09-03 2:48 PM
Malik Rahim is in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, which isn't flooded. He welcomes help & gives way of contacting him at end of article... (text/plain + 12 comments)

Grokking, Grasping the Legacy of Hurricane K - bl0g reports 8/31 CultureJamCleveland 2005-09-03 12:35 PM
Citizen media, journalism, & reports as it happened on Wednesday August 31st. Real time web dispatches from across the Gulf as the historic disaster unfolded, survivor accounts, photos, amateur video, links to TV station forums, and a sample of the best bloggers - discovered in a half-day scour using blog search engines. This story must be told, full documentation and a wide-eyed, open assessment must be adamantly sought, to insure better preparation in the future, and accountability for the slow, lame, immediate response which unnecessarily fomented greater tragedy upon the refugees above and beyond the devastating force of Mother Natures pass through. Without further adieau, this info-share is a webs-eye view on the lesson & legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Refugee's, keep your hopes alive, look for the silver-linings from those clouds, we can only feel deep empathy, as the 'unpredictable' weather affects & connects Us All, as the famous playwright noted, " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." William Shakespeare (text/plain)

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup. Ian Korn 2005-09-03 12:03 PM
Guess who's been hired to help? (text/plain + 3 comments)

Bush declares war on blacks The Eye 2005-09-03 8:11 AM
Bush has declared war on black people in New Orleans (text/plain + 77 comments)

Kanye West on NBC - "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" repost 2005-09-03 7:43 AM
"I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days..." (video/x-ms-wmv + 107 comments)

Cuba offers help JAMP 2005-09-03 5:41 AM
Cuba offers inmediate medical help (text/plain + 1 comment)

Please help Food Not Bombs provide help for the victims of Katrina. Keith McHenry 2005-09-03 5:02 AM
We plan to send another busload of food to the effected area. We URGENTLY need your support! (text/plain)

Unnatural Disaster: The Crisis in Public Planning Jason Neville 2005-09-03 3:27 AM
Two New Orleans scholars/activsts report the systematic destruction of the southeast louisiana ecology has hastened and exacerbated the destruction of the City of New Orleans. (text/html + 3 comments)

Declaration of New Orleans Charles Montesquieu 2005-09-03 3:24 AM
A Declaration of The People of the United States of America Concerning the Present Crisis in the City of New Orleans. (text/plain + 1 comment)

CUBA Offers medical expertise and supplies Karen O'Keefe 2005-09-03 3:07 AM
This was posted to DC Indymedia. I haven't checked out its accuracy yet, but Cuba offers free doctors routinely to poor countries and after catastrophies. We should make sure the offer is immediately, graciously accepted (assuming it's real). Perhaps we can find nongovermental transit and hosting. (text/plain + 6 comments)

housing and employment for storm victims in evacuated to atl spooners_ghost 2005-09-03 1:52 AM
Help for new orleans evacuees (text/plain)

Ecuatorianos en necesidad/Ecuadorians in need Juan Carlos Arosemena 2005-09-03 1:52 AM
This is a post requiring all Ecuadorians residing in New Orleans to write to the email address given to help them find their families. (text/plain + 2 comments)

It's Criminal Malik Rahim 2005-09-03 12:50 AM
(posted by Christian Roselund) 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 he describes is nothing less than deliberate genocide against Black and poor people. (text/plain + 4 comments)

need interview: eyewitnesses theresa mitchell 2005-09-02 5:51 PM
community radio needs interview (text/plain)

narrow escape from martial law claudia 2005-09-02 4:27 PM
A true story about last minute escape from flooded city of new orleans from a friend via email (text/plain + 13 comments)

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