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  • Minority Lawmakers Unite After Katrina
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By SUZANNE GAMBOA
    WASHINGTON - The racial divide exposed by Hurricane Katrina has united minority lawmakers in Congress who hope to leverage their numbers to aid overlooked communities.
    Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus are creating a new group that will include all of their members. The Tri-Caucus will not replace the existing caucuses.
    The leaders of each of caucus wrote the House (…)

  • Katrina’s Toxic New Orleans Art
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What You Need To Know About the US Government in Times of Crisis
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    This video started out as a simple little "let’s show this guy’s story" kinda piece and turned into a scathing expose of what people can expect from government endorsed relief efforts in time of crisis.
    Arrested for art, threatened with arrest for helping people, spending all your own money to help others because Red Cross (…)

  • The Catastrophe Is Not Over
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jennifer Moses
    BATON ROUGE, La. — While the rest of the country wakes up in the morning to read about the latest round of Washington scandals, the misery in Louisiana continues unabated. Except for a few older, historical neighborhoods on "high ground," New Orleans is uninhabitable, and Cameron Parish, in the southwest corner of the state, basically no longer exists, having been wiped out by Hurricane Rita.
    Meanwhile, though Congress passed a $29 billion aid package for the Gulf Coast (…)

  • KUTCHH AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EARTHQUAKE - AN OVERALL VIEW
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    KUTCHH AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EARTHQUAKE - AN OVERALL VIEW A REPORT INTRODUCTION- Five years have passed since the 2001 Killer Earthquake, which devastated the life of Kutchh and killed thousands of people. Socialist Unity Centre of India (S.U.C.I.) reached Kutchh on the second day after the Earthquake, set up its base camp at Bahchau, and undertook intense medical and material relief work along with educational and cultural relief. A tarpaulin school was constructed in the early days, (…)

  • City of New Orleans plan to "Usufruct" Poor Citizens: Govt to take control of private homes
    30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW ORLEANS - Officials and community advocates are quietly planting the seeds for an enterprising program that could give the government temporary control over thousands of privately owned homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
    An increasing number of Louisiana housing authorities believe the proposal, based on an arcane legal concept called "usufruct," could be a key to determining whether New Orleans will again be a seminal American city or whether it will stagnate with a population, like (…)

  • TRAILER CASH: US paying $3,300/month to lease trailers for Katrina victims
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If FEMA could distribute the fortune spent on trailers directly to those in need of housing, the recipients might find a much nicer place to live, and even have money left over for home repairs. But there’s a catch: That’s illegal
    Those displaced by Hurricane Katrina and seeking a temporary trailer don’t get to kick the tires or discuss financing plans, but a look at the ultimate sticker price might make them wish they could: $59,800.
    That’s the cost to taxpayers for the trailer’s (…)

  • Houston & Texas City Police Running Nuclear Disaster Drills
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Houston PD Running Nuclear Disaster Drills As Build-Up Of Numerous Law Enforcement Agencies Seen In Nearby Texas City
    Army Intel Capt. Eric May warns Bush cabal days away from a nuclear strike. Texas City resident "opens up a hornet’s nest" as he warns local law enforcement about the possibility of nuclear strike.
    By Greg Szymanski
    Sources inside the Houston Police Department (HPD) have confirmed officers in recent weeks have been taking part in nuclear disaster drills, adding more (…)

  • Katrina Warnings Ignored: Briefed on Levee Breach Two Days Before Storm Hit, Bush Did Nothing
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Documents released today by Congress show that two days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the White House received detailed damage forecasts from Homeland Security officials predicting that the city’s levees might be overtopped or breached.
    Yet in the days after the storm struck on Aug. 29, federal officials, including President Bush, said the levee breaches could not have been foreseen.
    Embattled former FEMA Director Michael Brown said, "I think we were all taken aback by (…)

  • VIDEO Housing Rights for New Orleans Hurricane Survivors
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This video includes interviews from evacuees in NY and those who’ve returned to New Orleans. This issue is currently effecting the lives of thousands of people and it’s still not too late to help put pressure where it needs to be put to force the goverenment to deal with these people properly.
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    When considering the rebuilding of New Orleans, every issue eventually boils down to housing. Housing for those who’ve evacuated, housing for those who’ve (…)

  • Black Commentator vs. The Wall Street Journal
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BC Associate Editor Bruce Dixon
    In their quest for absolute political hegemony in the United States, some elements of the Right now dare to claim to share with blacks - if not common cause - common conclusions about the state of race relations in America. In a January 8, 2006 piece weighted with the full freight of centuries of white supremacist delusions, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto claimed that BC’s January 5, 2006 Cover Story, "Katrina Study: Black Consensus, White (…)