Frustrated by the slow pace of the federal government’s response, Shawna Doremus and Judith Kaufman, both New Orleanians displaced in Pittsburgh, have planned a rally in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, December 14, 2005.
”New Orleans is one of America’s most unique cities, and it is heartbreaking to see the city struggling to get back on it’s feet,” said Doremus. “We are Americans, we are taxpayers, and Judy and I both personally represent small businesses. We are asking Congress to (...)
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NEW ORLEANIANS PLAN RALLY IN WASHINGTON DC Wednesday, December 14
12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Goodbye, New Orleans
10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Mike Tidwell
AS WE REACH THE 90-DAY mark since Katrina hit, it’s time we ended our national state of denial. Turns out House Speaker Dennis Hastert had it right all along, though his reasons were flawed. We should call it quits in New Orleans not because the city can’t be made relatively safe from hurricanes. It can be. And not because to do so is more trouble than it’s worth. It’s not. But because the Bush Administration has already given New Orleans a quiet kiss of death now that (...) -
Wisconsin Should Hold Oil Executives Accountable
24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Robert Miranda
Wisconsin Governor Doyle’s administration will be holding a public hearing in Milwaukee on December 1st to ask corporate oil executives questions about record profits their companies amassed in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Under the authority of Wisconsin’s trade and consumer protection law, the Governor has subpoenaed oil company executives to appear in Wisconsin for this public hearing. Those served with subpoenas are: David O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO of (...) -
USING ILLEGAL LABOR TO CLEAN UP AFTER KATRINA
18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Roberto Lovato
Halliburton and its subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino workers to clean up after Katrina — only to mistreat them and throw them out without pay.
Arnulfo Martinez recalls seeing lots of hombres del ejercito standing at attention. Though he was living on the Belle Chasse Naval Base near New Orleans when President Bush spoke there on Oct. 11, he didn’t understand anything the ruddy man in the rolled-up sleeves was saying to the troops. Martinez, 16, (...) -
ePluribus Media Introduces Searchable Timelines
16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Did you get confused or lost in the hurricane of bits of information during the time of Katrina?
Have you made up your mind about what FEMA did or did not do and trust your information?
Are you trying to write about Katrina/FEMA/Rita and finding the research overwhelming?
For dramatic, far reaching stories, such as the Katrina and Rita hurricanes, the new ePluribus Media Timelines let you go behind the blockbuster headlines to connect the dots between the minor stories that led to (...) -
’Bird Flu’: From psyOP and population control to "WW4"
10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
’Bird Flu’: From psyOP and population control to "WW4" Notes compiled by ewing2001 October 22, 2005
During 2004, on my old blog at 911skeptics.blogspot.com and in many online e-mail correspondences, i pointed out on the possibility, how to stage the easiest bogus pretext for "WW4" (WW4 is a definition labelled by neocons Eliot Cohen, Norman Podhoretz and James Woolsey. They personally skipped "WW3", which was in their mind already the Cold War):
...A fake Al-Quaeda terror cell in (...) -
Stop the eviction of the ’Welcome Home’ Kitchen in New Orleans
9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe only kitchen serving fresh, nutritious meals to the people of New Orleans east of Canal St. is being threatened with closure by city officials.
The loose-knit coalition of groups known as ’the Rainbow Family of Living Light’, best known for their yearly 4th of July Rainbow Gatherings at rotating locations throughout the country, have been instrumental in the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina. The mobile kitchen they founded in Waveland, Mississippi, the area hardest hit by (...) -
’I’m a fashion god’ - what FEMA boss e-mailed as hurricane Katrina raged
7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by RHIANNON EDWARD
AS HURRICANE Katrina battered New Orleans, the man in charge of the US government’s response was sending e-mails to colleagues about his fashion sense and how he looked on television.
On 29 August, the day Katrina struck the United States, Michael Brown, then director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), wrote to a fellow official: "I am a fashion god."
The correspondence emerged as a congressional panel released 23 pages of internal e-mails offering (...) -
Immigrants often unpaid for Katrina work
6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsGULFPORT, Miss. — A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply vanishes. Other workers wait on promises that soon, someone in a complex hierarchy of contractors will provide the funds to pay them.
Nonpayment of wages is a violation of federal labor law, but these workers - thousands of them, channeled into teams (...) -
Moral Dilemma
1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsTricky one... So where do you stand morally? This test only has one question, but it’s a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision.
Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous. Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line. THE SITUATION You are in New Orleans to be specific. There is chaos (...)