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New Orleans crisis shames Americans At the end of an unforgettable week, one broadcaster on Friday bitterly encapsulated the sense of burning shame and anger that many American citizens are feeling....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:27pm PDT
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's Message (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) Mayor Ray Nagin Audio from WWL-AM radio. aired Sept 1st at 4:45pm....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:34am PDT
The “New Poor” Versus The “Old Poor”: Who Gets Prioritized? Who will get prioritized? The old poor or the new poor? This is a serious dilemma. And my experience says that when middle class people lose things, everyone rushes to buy them replacement houses, cars, etc. But if you are poor, they are only gonna replace your poverty....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:21am PDT
300 troops with kin in Katrina zone sent home Three hundred Air Force members in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere abroad will return to their Mississippi Air Force base "so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina," according to an Air Force command statement....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:02am PDT
Superdome evacuation on hold Up to 5,000 remaining refugees remain calm despite putrid conditions...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:59am PDT
Rapper Kanye West blasts Bush on TV benefit show (video/quicktime 1.6MB) Rapper Kanye West surprised viewers of an NBC benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims on Friday by accusing President George W. Bush of racism.
"George Bush doesn't care about black people," West said from New York during the show aired live on the East Coast on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and Pax, just before cameras cut away to comedian Chris Tucker.
Audio From Democracy Now
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Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:46am PDT
Bush was warned LAST YEAR in a hurricane Ivan report about a looming New Orleans disaster! I am angry at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), now part of the Department of Homeland Security. I am angry at George W. Bush. I am angry because they were warned last November that New Orleans was one of the “Disasters Waiting to Happen” – and did nothing about it. Consequently, hundreds, if not thousands, of people are dead. Needlessly....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:29am PDT
An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting Watching NBC's "Dateline" for Friday 9/2, I realized what subtle racism means, and saw that the 1950s still aren't over....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:04am PDT
New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Sends Elite Aid/Rescue Team to New Orleans Disast heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
Notes From Inside New Orleans 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....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:54pm PDT
narrow escape from martial law A true story about last minute escape from flooded city of new orleans from a friend via email...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:52pm PDT
Lockout at the CBC—“Canada’s public broadcaster” The lockout of 5,500 journalists and technicians at the federal government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) threatens to be prolonged. Taking its cue from the corporate media giants and Canada’s Liberal government, CBC management is seeking to impose a new business model in which an ever-larger proportion of its employees will be contract workers with little or no job security....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:35pm PDT
New Orleans and Baghdad—two sides of the same policy As US National Guard troops—just returned from Iraq—moved into New Orleans Friday with “shoot-to-kill” orders, and Blackhawk helicopters flew over the city, the essential unity between the policies pursued by Washington at home and abroad found stark expression....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:29pm PDT
New Orleans: We are on our own In the US, white people can't imagine black people who are just like them...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:28pm PDT
Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina Race has a lot to do with who's suffering and who isn't after hurricane Katrina. But wild accusations of racism will only make matters worse for all of New Orleans' poor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Evacuee bus overturns in La.; one killed One Hurricane Katrina evacuee died and many others were injured when a bus carrying them from the Superdome swerved across a highway median and overturned Friday....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:14pm PDT
National Guardsmen Reach New Orleans More than four days after Hurricane Katrina struck, the National Guard arrived in force Friday with food, water and weapons, churning through the floodwaters in a vast truck convoy that was met with both catcalls and cries of "Thank you, Jesus!" from the suffering multitudes....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:11pm PDT
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