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  • New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press conference: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
    New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
    Press conference to announce plan to save lives and demand role in rebuilding effort
    HOUSTON - A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People’s Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and (…)

  • Katrina Survivor: “They died for no reason but lack of organization”
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MALIK RAHIM is a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, a housing rights activist and recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council. He lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that isn’t 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.
    This report from New Orleans was published by the San (…)

  • To support the victims of Katrina, do NOT give to “Operation Blessing”
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I am outraged as I read where FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson. This is the same man who broke the law by threatening Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ life on national TV.
    According to information readily available at Sploid, it states “FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help the storm’s hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red Cross is (…)

  • Bush’s Death Tax
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    This may be politically incorrect, but I’m having serious qualms about writing a check for Hurricane relief. The way I see it, I already gave my fare share for the effort on April 15. This is Tax Day, the painful moment where we surrender a large chunk of our hard earned change to the federal government, so they can fix levees and plan for national emergencies.
    President George W. Bush, however, decided to squander this money on tax breaks for Cappuccino Conservatives and (…)

  • Seems like More People Died than Prospered under Pres Bush’s Leadership
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Another few thousand bit the dust.
    Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That’ll be President Bush’s long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president failed to protect them.
    There won’t be any admission of guilt, no one to take responsibility, no one fired for screwing up, just lies and spin, and mudslinging.
    You may be familiar with some of that already.
    “I (…)

  • Where Have all the Soldiers Gone?
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "You know the year of 1900-that was 60 years ago/when death come howling on the ocean/death calls, you gotta go"—Tom Rush, Wasn’t it a Mighty Storm
    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    "Galveston had a seawall, just to keep the waters down. But the high tide from the ocean spread the water over the town." The worst hurricane in US history saw almost 6000 people drowned in Galveston, Texas a little over a century ago, in a human tragedy immortalized by Tom Rush’s mournful 1960 ballad. But it was an (…)

  • The Simplest Evil...
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Simplest Evil...
    All it takes is a glance,
    Just look the other way in the heat of the moment,
    Pretend you don’t see the very stones you are standing upon.
    Perhaps they won’t even exist.
    You can spend days creating a new reality,
    No need for that hammer and nails son,
    The house is standing just fine.
    In twenty feet of water.
    The eyes that see the murky depths are countless,
    Not even the computers are sure,
    How many ghosts are in the rotting rafters.
    Just turn away and (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina: FOR OIL?
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HURRICANE KATRINA---WHO BENEFITS? OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, Part 80
    by Sherman H. Skolnick
    Some meteorologists contend there has been weather-warfare. That is, they say, that there have been two man-made hurricanes, Ivan [The Terrible], 2004, and Katrina, 2005. And, that these storms were created by technology long-known and directed to specific areas.
    One weatherman asserted that Russia has long claimed they can send extreme weather and turbulence from Siberia targeting the (…)

  • WHAT A SICK JOKE: BUSH TO LEAD ’INQUIRY’ INTO KATRINA FIASCO SO HE DOESN’T GET THE BLAME
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US President George W Bush says he will lead an investigation into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled.
    "I’m going to find out over time what went right and what went wrong," he said in reply to criticism that the authorities were too slow to respond.
    The US Senate is to hold two inquiries of its own into the disaster which hit the Gulf Coast and New Orleans.
    New Orleans’ last residents are being urged to leave the swamped city as fires add to the hazards there.
    Map of (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen’s store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City. Outside Walgreen’s windows, residents and tourists (…)