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"Classism, Racism and Sexism Project: White People Find, Black People Loot." Peace Guru 2005-10-12 5:37 AM

On either of these websites http://www.opensource.dsame.com or http://www.campusactivism.org/displayresource-487.htm you will find two versions of this online printable zine: "The Open Source Classism, Racism and Sexism Project: Hurricane Katrina, The Blogosphere And Corporate Media... "White People Find, Black People Loot." (image/jpeg)

Un mes en Nueva Orleáns Michael Moore 2005-10-12 3:41 AM

Amigos, Mi equipo ha estado en Nueva Orleáns y la Costa del Golfo, durante casi un mes, enfrascado en la organización y la dirección de nuestros esfuerzos de auxilio junto a los Veteranos por la Paz. La asombrosa respuesta de muchos de ustedes ha afectado la vida de miles de personas. Esto es lo que hemos podido hacer con su ayuda (image/jpeg)

NOPD Is Taking New Orleans Back candleperson 2005-10-12 2:52 AM

A member of the NOPD going into the Greyhound bus station which has become a detention facility since Hurricane Katrina. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Jesse Jackson arrives in New Orleans marc 2005-10-12 2:01 AM

Reverend jesse jackson and his rainbow coalition arrived in New Orleans with hundreds of hurricane survivors hoping to find work and housing. Mama D was there to meet them, among others who attended their press conference at Piccadilly's restaurant. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was there promising a "living wage" for everyone saying, "the days of minimum wage are over." Job recruiters from McDonalds, Burger King, UPS, and other minimum-wage employers were there to hand out applications. there were also residents with signs demonstrating for their housing rights. (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

Behind the veil and beyond the hijab populist 2005-10-11 10:06 PM
By simplistic Western standards, Muslim women come with two labels: "subjugated" and "quasi-subjugated" (text/html)

Sample Tests of Gulf of Mexico fish after Katrina: pollution levels from NOAA Fisheries Service 2005-10-11 9:22 PM
NOAA Fisheries Service did analyses of fish, water and sediment samples collected from coastal and offshore marine waters of the Gulf of Mexico after hurricane Katrina, I don't know if NOAA are neutral when they do their tests, or where in the Gulf they tested the waters, or if they also tested after hurricane Rita. Which parts of NOLA been tested? (text/plain)

Petfinder.com & Animal Emergency Response Network (AERN) : Free internet access @ PETCO,La Kathleen Blanco:didn't do enough,save animals 2005-10-11 8:24 PM
There is free internet access in Kenner and Harvey, for people looking for their pets. i'm sure you don't need to be a customer to look on www.petfinder.com there. (I didn't want to give the company free advertising.) (text/plain)

Common Ground audio history by Malik Rahim and Scott Crow smarthur 2005-10-11 1:33 PM
Malik Rahim and Scott Crow give an oral history of Common Ground and its visions/aspirations. (audio/mpeg)

Caravan of Displaced N.O. Residents Arrives Today Jay Arena 2005-10-11 11:08 AM
Bring the Black Working Class Majority Back to New Orleans NOW! Stop the racist ruling elite's class and ethnic cleansing agenda (text/plain + 4 comments)

FEMA no longer releasing names to family members meg 2005-10-11 10:45 AM
FEMA is no longer releasing the names of the evacuees they are currently housing in the shelters in at least San Antonio. (text/plain)

New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again! By Bill Quigley 2005-10-10 6:43 PM
Bill is a professor of law at Loyola University New Orleans where he directs the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and the Law Clinic and teaches Law and Poverty. Bill can be reached at duprestars@yahoo.com (text/plain + 1 comment)

Katrina may have freed killer dolphins coyote 2005-10-10 2:30 PM
File under weird. Aside from the incredible creative responces to human suffering, this may be the only good thing to come from the storm. By Peter Marren London - One of the strangest stories to emerge from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina is a tale of military-trained dolphins on the loose in the Gulf of Mexico. Whether they were whistling the Batman theme is not known (text/plain)

BTL:Groups Campaign to End Veneration of Columbus and Transform Holiday Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2005-10-10 12:44 PM
Interview with Glenn Morris, of the Colorado American Indian Movement, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

Resurrect New Orleans: A Better City Is Possible re-posting of Van Jones 2005-10-10 3:26 AM
People are asking how to organize and this article lays out many ideas and actions that are in place now. (text/plain)

NOPD beating caught on tape outraged 2005-10-10 3:05 AM
NOPD beating of 64 year old man and assault of Associated Press producer caught on tape and is aired around the world. (text/plain + 4 comments)

Wet Bank Guide Markus 2005-10-09 7:51 PM
Remembering Katrina, Envisioning New Orleans (text/plain)

Urgent: Prisoner Research Needed for NOLA Don 2005-10-09 1:08 PM
Hey, I'm down in New Orleans right now doing relief work with the Common Ground Collective (www.commongroundrelief.org), and some of us are trying to put together information and start working to support prisoners in the New Orleans area, particularly those being picked up every night for curfew violation. We're very busy here doing all sorts of work, so we need help doing research. If you can help with some of this, please get in touch ASAP. (text/plain)

Obituary for the: UNITED STATES of America! William Eon 2005-10-09 9:23 AM

She is deeply indebted to: CHINA, JAPAN and SAUDI ARABIA. They financed her Military spending sprees and exasperated her severe addiction to oil. These problems finally led to her downfall and destruction. To all her Family and Friends I offer my sincere condolences. May we all learn from her mistakes and avoid her fate. Those who study history should learn from her mistakes Or Else: Be bound forever to: Repeat them. (image/jpeg)

Alive In Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History Project in Austin, Texas Abe Louise Young 2005-10-09 3:24 AM
Read the unmistakable voices of New Orleans natives as they describe their lives and their escapes from the city. Based in Austin, Texas which is home to 10,000 evacuees, Alive in Truth is a grassroots oral history project that seeks to understand the whole person before, during, and after the Disaster. Interviews are posted on the website for the public, and the stories will break and heal your heart. Read of Miranda, a caterer and poet; Soldier Man, a street preacher from the French Quarter; Joseph, a trash collector; Cleo, a high school student, and many more. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Gentrification Sweeps Algiers Streets Rolling in Cop Cars Ryme Katkhouda 2005-10-09 2:41 AM
Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Santa Cruz Billboard Shows Remarkable Candor from Santa Cruz Indymedia 2005-10-08 11:36 PM

The Billboard Liberation Front struck a prominent Highway 17 billboard today, correcting a Red Cross advertisement to reflect what became painfully apparent in the wake of hurricane Katrina. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

More dogs and 2 cats found shot to death at St. Bernard Elementary School pooter 2005-10-08 6:39 PM

More dogs and and 2 cats, left by evacuees for "safekeeping", found shot to death at a St. Bernard Elementary school. (image/gif + 1 comment)

Urgent Relief Needed for Native American Communities in LA Naomi Archer 2005-10-08 2:17 PM
CALL TO ACTION Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana (text/plain + 3 comments)

AUDIO: Malik Rahim Speaks About the Grassroots Response to Hurricane Katrina ~Bradley 2005-10-08 3:51 AM

On October 4, Malik Rahim, a longtime community activist in New Orleans and San Francisco, spoke at the Women's Building in San Francisco about the situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous response by the Bush administration and other government agencies. Malik, who lives in the Algiers community of New Orleans, discussed the grassroots community relief and rebuilding efforts underway through the Common Ground collective. (39:39 minutes) (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

BTL:Library Challenge to Patriot Act Gag Rule Appealed to Supreme Court Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2005-10-07 10:22 AM
Interview with Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Aid volunteer, independent journalists arrested jdc 2005-10-07 3:21 AM
21:13 mp3 (audio/mpeg + 3 comments)

New Orleans Bookfair 2005 G.K. Darby 2005-10-06 11:46 PM
The New Orleans Bookfair goes on, as scheduled. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Hamarbee Interview with Bernard's mother, Sister Pless Ytzhak 2005-10-06 8:23 PM

On the morning of October 13, 2004 Bernard C. Burden was found hung from a tree in the yard of a white family. His feet were touching the ground with his knees bent. The Coroner Wimp Pierce ruled it a suicide.... (image/gif + 1 comment)

Clinic to open in Mid-City Christian Roselund 2005-10-06 3:32 PM
A fully functional free clinic will open on St. Bernard and Claiborne streets this Saturday from 10AM-4PM. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Update from Downtown 2 Christian Roselund 2005-10-06 3:16 PM
This morning (thursday 6th) I spoke with Sean Benjamin from the Iron Rail at his house on St. Claude in the Treme. He says that as people return to the city a number of businesses, including food stores, gas stations and even a hardware store are re-opening downtown, mostly in the quarter. He also gave updates on power, water and gas. (text/plain)

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