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Society without Make-Up Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005-10-05 9:04 AM
After the disastrous hurricane Katrina, the rage over the inactivity of the authorities was great. However the ceensors appeared with their moralizing undertone when indignation was first heard in the media. (text/plain)

Hurricane Video/anim (Bush: ... euh,euh ) Marc Jambers 2005-10-05 5:51 AM

Video/animation on Bush and the aftermath of the hurricane. (image/jpeg)

Santa Cruz Sends Relief to Louisiana from Santa Cruz Indymedia 2005-10-05 4:29 AM

Audio and photos from the report back with Curtis Reliford held on September 29 at the Santa Cruz Vets Hall. Curtis reported on the caravan that travelled from Santa Cruz to Louisiana (to Shreveport, Bogalusa, and New Orleans), to deliver four truckloads of goods donated by the people of Santa Cruz in the days following Hurricane Katrina. (image/jpeg)

Update from Downtown Christian Roselund 2005-10-05 2:59 AM
As the power is turned back on uptown, NOLA IMC member Camilla Brewer reports by phone that there is still no power, gas or phones working in the 7th, 8th, 9th wards, including the Mid-City, St. Roch and Bywater neighborhoods. Parts of the Treme close to the French Quarter have power and phone service, and many homes in the FQ have had power for some time. (text/plain)

Alliance for Affordable Energy Workshops- Baton Rouge October 8th Lolis Elie 2005-10-05 2:38 AM
The Alliance For Affordable Energy is to hold community workshops on rebuilding a New Orleans with less dependence on cars, as well as wetlands restoration and other environmental infrastructure projects on October 8th in Baton Rouge. From an article by Times-Picayune columnist Lolis Elie, a writer from the Treme and the only reason that there ever was to pick up a copy of the T-P. (reposted from NOLA.com by Christian Roselund) (text/plain)

New Images Posted from Common Ground smarthur 2005-10-04 8:27 PM
A few images from folks at the Common Ground Collective have been compiled and published. (text/html)

New Orleans City: Lack of funds might mean 3,000 city workers made redundant Join collectives for help, see jobs listing 2005-10-04 7:11 PM
Mayor Nagin has not obtained enough funds to payroll city workers. In many parishes the tax base had been devastated. (text/plain)

FSRN: Nagin announces 3000 layoffs -- half of city employees matt toups 2005-10-04 6:47 PM
Search operations for victims of Hurricane Katrina wrapped up this week as the New Orleans mayor announced future plans for the city. Matt Toups reports from New Orleans. (audio: 1:09) (audio/mpeg)

Official LA Death Toll 972; 8000 Bodies Still In Morgue DAVID ZUCCHINOand NICHOLAS RICCARDI, LA Times 2005-10-04 6:45 PM
While CNN and our more corrupt corporate media spin the death toll at 972, a morgue in Baton Rouge already holds 8000 corpses from the storm. Only 32 have been positively identified at this time. (text/plain + 4 comments)

Global warming means ... pat n 2005-10-04 4:57 PM
Global warming means (a) faster rise in sea level and (b) more powerful hurricanes. (text/plain)

Do you know someone whose wedding was postponed due to Hurricane Katrina? Brave St. Productions 2005-10-04 3:11 PM
Looking for couples whose wedding plans were interrupted by Hurricane Katrina to be the recipients of a surprise wedding and reunion of family and friends for a one-hour television special. (text/plain)

MSNBC:9th Ward has history, but does it have a future? Ceci Connolly 2005-10-04 2:09 PM
From MSNBC Updated: 11:48 p.m. ET Oct. 2, 2005: Race, class frame debate on rebuilding low-lying New Orleans district (text/plain)

Fires break out as electricity comes back on uptown matt toups 2005-10-04 12:47 PM

On Monday October 3rd, Entergy began restoring electrical fires further uptown, towards the Carrollton section. When the power came back on during the day, small fires broke out, and one home on Nelson St. was consumed by fire. (image/jpeg)

Countercurrent Gulf Coast Grass Roots Relief CCC Disaster Relief Caravan 2005-10-04 3:05 AM
Nurture The Grass Roots! Support mission and Gulf Coast disaster relief team heads out on October 21st, bringing resources and volunteer crew seeks assistance, supplies, and donations. (text/plain)

Bush's unwelcome gift to NATO: Afghanistan populist 2005-10-03 9:26 PM
Economically, most Afghans see neither an improvement in their personal lot, or view the rebuilding of their country happening at an acceptable pace. (text/html)

Iraq War delayed relief efforts-from the London Independent Kim Sengupta 2005-10-03 10:12 AM
Iraq War delayed relief efforst-like we didn't already know this. Article from London Independent (text/plain)

Greece: Anarchists Attack the Headquarters of the Greek Riot Police (Video) @ 2005-10-03 7:15 AM
Video – Anarchists Attack the Headquarters of the Greek Riot Police and the Police Special Forces - Found at http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=4099 (text/plain)

The Butcher of New Orleans John Doraemi 2005-10-02 7:59 PM
9-11 Insider & Director of "Homeland Security" Michael Chertoff Crimes of the State (text/html)

Freedom For Leonard Peltier Geri Timmons 2005-10-02 4:34 PM
Fasting In Solidarity (text/plain)

Baton Rouge, N.O. Update High-C 2005-10-02 11:43 AM
Various happenings since the evacuation of New Orleans. (text/plain)

BTL:Hunger Strike by Guantanamo Detainees Enters Second Month Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2005-10-02 10:01 AM
Interview with Tom Wilner, attorney representing 11 Guantanamo Bay prisoners, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

Volunteers required, save pets lives with NOLA Animal charities If Ben aged 14 can help so can you 2005-10-01 11:49 PM

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Ghandi. Volunteers are urgently needed in the New Orleans Louisiana area NOW. You can help even if you don't have specialist skills. (image/jpeg)

Is your twelve year old safe from the military? richard myers 2005-10-01 3:44 PM
With recruiting targets unmet, 250 National Guard troops visit middle school, mingle with twelve year olds. Is it a recruiting ploy? (text/html)

RN denounces Red Cross in San Antonio Meg Brizzolara 2005-10-01 4:26 AM
I worked for 2 weeks at Kelly Air Force Base. SEIU Nurses sent by the union provided 24/7 care to Katrina Evacuess, sans help from RC (text/plain + 11 comments)

Take A Stand With The People Of New Orleans!, Don't Let The System Get Away With Murder! Kgrrl 2005-09-30 4:08 PM
This weekend – Thursday, September 29 through Sunday, October 2 – is a weekend to protest what this system did – AND IS CONTINUING TO DO – to the people of New Orleans. We are calling on people to show their outrage in many different ways: (text/plain)

Bush’s Plan for New Orleans: Turning Devastation into Profit Kgrrl 2005-09-30 4:03 PM
This article is very good at pointing out the ways that the Bush regime is siezing on the suffering caused by His regime's actions and in actions surrounding Hurrican Katrina. Like wolves feasting on their prey these criminals in Government are poised to regentrify New Orleans in a way unseen in the US- basically structuring it along the lines of so-called "free-trade zones" in oppressed countries where big bussiness is invited to come and make a killing at the expense of workers health, rights, wages, and the environment. (text/plain)

Dogs left by evacuees brutally shot in St. Bernard Parish pooter 2005-09-30 2:31 PM
from Pasadosafehaven.org: Fourteen dogs, left by their owners in hopes of returning to them, were slaughtered, shot in the body cavity, forcing the dogs to suffer a prolonged death. All were found dead at Beauregard Middle School in St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans. (text/plain + 13 comments)

"Red Cross Money Pit" concerned citizen 2005-09-30 12:48 PM
New Orleans residents speak out; LA based relief agency blasts Red Cross; The American Red Cross is facing increasing complaints about its response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The criticism comes from many corners; African-American activists have charged that in New Orleans, the organization provided better services in white areas than black areas. (text/plain)

Katrina and the Prehistory Max Boehnel 2005-09-30 11:02 AM
Robert Scheer in "The Nation" wrote that the catastrophe was the result of a campaign to systematically demonize the role of the central government in American life. (text/plain)

Interview with Dennis Kyne of Veterans for Peace Radio Algiers 2005-09-29 7:30 PM
Interview with Veterans for Peace activist Dennis Kyne about Katrina, Algiers, and grassroots relief efforts. (MP3 - 18:57 - 17.4 MB) (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

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