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Email From EMT Recounts Initial Aftermath Anon 2005-09-02 4:15 PM
As a few of you may have heard, I recently left my job as an EMT in Baltimore and moved to Austin, TX, to accept a James Michener fellowship in writing. Austin is about five hundred miles from New Orleans, so on Sunday evening, when I heard what the news was predicting about Hurricane Katrina, I packed my car and headed for New Orleans. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Notes From Inside New Orleans Jordan Flaherty 2005-09-02 4:03 PM
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. (text/plain + 22 comments)

Do not use Hertz Lilach Taylor 2005-09-02 3:28 PM
I am a hurricane survivor stuck in Atlanta. I just wanted to give all refugees a heads up on car rental companies. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Mayor Ray Nagins Message AUDIO brett steffey 2005-09-02 3:13 PM
Mayor Ray Nagin Audio from WWL-AM radio. aired yesturday at 4:45pm. (text/plain + 8 comments)

FEMA: We'd rather see citizens die than lose our exclusive control... Truth 2005-09-02 12:21 PM
If you're dying on a roof-top, blame FEMA. Those willing to help you are being stopped by federal assholes. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Communications specialist CBP 2005-09-02 12:08 PM
CBP has Officers on the ground, in the air in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Communications specialist CBP 2005-09-02 12:05 PM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sends additional agents to quell riots (text/plain)

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin interview. el_tortugo 2005-09-02 11:44 AM
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin interview. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Randolph-Macon College Opens Doors: Free Tuition and Room to Students Affected by Hurrican Holly Clark 2005-09-02 11:28 AM
Randolph-Macon College is offering free tuition and room for the 2005 fall semester to students who have been affected by Hurriance Katrina. The college also has created additional residential spaces for these students if they need to live on campus. (text/plain)

Kathleen Blanco: Genocidal Maniac Pissed 2005-09-02 11:22 AM
Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana, said: "They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill ... they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will." (text/plain)

Mayor Nagin SPEAKS (AUDIO) Brett Steffey 2005-09-02 10:40 AM
Audio of Mayor Nagin GOING OFF at politics. LISTEN IMMEDIATELY AND SPREAD IMMEDIATELY. MEDIA WASH CONTINUES. MIRROR THIS IF YOU CAN. thanks love (text/plain + 2 comments)

Cops and Troops Attack Survivors of Katrina Alex Gould 2005-09-02 9:28 AM
Ray Nagin on Wednesday, August 31 ordered 1,500 of his police to stop their rescue efforts and control "looting". Shotguns drawn and backed up by National Guard troops, the capitalist state has turned against the desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina to protect its number one concern: the private property of business owners. (text/plain + 16 comments)

Governor Says In Effect "Shoot The Bastards" Captain America 2005-09-02 6:49 AM

"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," Governor Kathleen Blanco said of 300 National Guard troops who landed in New Orleans fresh from duty in Iraq. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will." As desperate people without food or water scavenge to feed their families, the clueless governor issues a threat. (image/jpeg + 46 comments)

Louisiana officials accused of blocking rescue volunteers Wikinews Reporter 2005-09-02 3:43 AM
State Police in Lafayette, Louisiana, have been accussed of hindering attempts by private citizens to rescue people trapped by floodwaters in New Orleans. The accusations were contained in an unconfirmed report received via email by Jason Robideaux, an attorney from Lafayette. (text/plain + 16 comments)

School bus comandeered by renegade refugees first to arrive at Astrodome By SALATHEIA BRYANT and CYNTHIA LEONOR GARZA 2005-09-02 2:47 AM
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle The first busload of New Orleans refugees to reach the Reliant Astrodome overnight was a group of people who commandeered a school bus in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and drove to Houston looking for shelter. (text/plain)

Genocide in New Orleans Kirsten Anderberg 2005-09-02 1:15 AM
I was seriously hoping that I would not have to write this article. But it has been too long now, and I have to say something. Regardless of whether the deaths en masse of poor black folks in New Orleans is due to neglect or maliciousness, the end result is constructively a genocide on poor blacks in America, right now, in 2005. The lack of aid to New Orleans at this late hour (7 pm, Sept. 1) is not explicable. I have only one explanation that I can muster up. And that explanation is classism and racism. (text/plain + 38 comments)

National Guard not allowing aid into the city SB 2005-09-02 1:11 AM
National guard not allowing aid into the city (text/plain + 38 comments)

Radically minded? Need a place to stay? a helpful radical 2005-09-01 8:52 PM
Politically oriented Houston residents are looking for like minded refugees seeking shelter. (text/plain + 7 comments)

Governor's Office Lied About Children's Hospital Looting relay 2005-09-01 8:00 PM
No Children's Hospital Looting<br> www.nola.com<br> Aug. 31, 2005, 4:35 p.m. (text/plain + 9 comments)

Unrest Spreads to Baton Rouge: LSU chancellor urges students to remain indoors relay 2005-09-01 7:11 PM
LSU chancellor urges students to remain indoors Thursday, 5:02 p.m. www.nola.com (text/plain + 3 comments)

Hurrican Housing moveon 2005-09-01 6:50 PM
info site for housing (text/plain)

O22HTown Welcomes New Orleans Chapter to Houston, TX O22HTown 2005-09-01 6:15 PM

In the wake of Katrina; members involved with the New Orleans chapter of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality who have fled to higher ground in the Houston Metro area are welcomed with open arms. (image/jpeg)

Update on Tenet's Hospitals (Memorial, Lindy Boggs, Kenner Regional, and Meadowcrest) Karen O'Keefe 2005-09-01 4:38 PM
If you have a loved one who is a patient or an employee who you think may be at Memorial, Lindy Boggs, Kennedy Regional, or Meadowcrest, you can call 866-888-3638. There are live people there from 8am to 8pm seven days/week who will call you back when they have info on your loved one. (text/plain + 3 comments)

New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property wsws (reposted) 2005-09-01 2:42 PM
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered nearly the entire active police force in the flood-ravaged city to abandon rescue operations Wednesday night and focus on efforts to halt looting. The decision came in response to mounting pressure from sensationalized media coverage which is increasingly placing emphasis on the property damage done by looters, suggesting that it has become nearly as significant a social problem as the virtual destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Reports from a still-operating NO internet provider steward 2005-09-01 2:08 PM
Link information for a blog being maintained by an Internet company still operating in New Orleans (text/plain)

Missing/Found Persons Lists Christian Roselund 2005-09-01 1:55 PM
The following lists are among those being used to locate missing persons and evacuees, and to tell people you're OK. If you have any more lists, please add them in a comment. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Hurricane Katrina illustrates national oppression of Blacks HC116 2005-09-01 1:54 PM
This "natural" disaster has made clear the national privilege of the white nation and the national oppression of the Black nation. (text/plain + 14 comments)

Social Change and the hell of New Orleans Jim Macdonald 2005-09-01 12:14 PM
Today's events in New Orleans aren't the seeds of a better world, but there is reason for optimism in resistance (text/plain + 2 comments)

Hurricane Katrina's Updated Emergency Hotline Information Renate Jakupca 2005-09-01 8:11 AM
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) is encouraging concerned citizens to contribute to the ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief effort by visiting one of the below links: (text/plain)

Well Fed Media Pigs Call It "Looting" Steven Black 2005-08-31 10:00 PM
Eat shit, Bill. (text/html + 37 comments)

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