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Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet
by Cindy Sheehan
It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be (…)

by Naomi Archer
It’s not so much that the government is not responding [with storm relief], they are obstructing the response. They are telling us we can’t bring people the basic necessities of life because that would give them hope. It is a question of oppression vs. mutual aid. That is the revolution. - Jesse, an organizer with MayDay DC volunteering in the Common Ground Wellness Center, Algiers, NOLA
A MODEL FOR GETTING IT TOGETHER
The locally-led, mutually based community relief (…)

by Michael Moore
Friends,
Last week I closed my New York production office and sent my staff down to New Orleans to set up our own relief effort. I asked all of you to help me by sending food, materials and cash to the emergency relief center we helped set up on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain with the Veterans for Peace. We did this when the government was doing nothing and the Red Cross was still trying to get it together. Every day, every minute was critical. People were dying, poor (…)

By Peter Fredson
We are so glad that you recognized that race and poverty are part of your enduring legacy. You certainly deserve a lot of the credit for accelerating them. For a while we were not sure that you recognized that the U.S. actually had homeless people.
We had the impression that you thought they lived above hot-air grates and around dumpsters by choice. We realize that you may not actually LIKE blacks and bums, but now we know that you are at least aware that they exist and (…)

Criminally Negligent: Homeland Security & Chertoff (continued) by CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN (AMERICAN FREE PRESS)
The son of an Israeli Mossad agent, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, not Michael Brown, was in charge of managing the national response to Hurricane Katrina. Did Chertoff say, Hey, it’s just schwartzes. Whaddaya want from me?)
Because Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff delayed federal assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. he is (…)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has confirmed that a cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline is on its way to the USA to help Southern States affected by Hurricane Katrina.
The President as confirmed that before traveling to New York to attend the UN summit, Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco phoned the Venezuelan President accepting his offer of help.
Chavez Frias broke the news on arrival in the USA and has reminded reporters that the Venezuelan government had offered 8 (…)

Your Excellencies, friends, good afternoon:
The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life. *
Translated by Néstor Sánchez
Five years after (…)

In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn’t registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"I begged him to let me continue," said Perlmutter, who left his home and practice as an orthopedic surgeon in Pennsylvania to come to Louisiana and volunteer to care for hurricane victims. "People were dying, and I was the only doctor on the (…)

Hinchey Leads Broad Congressional Coalition Calling For Expansion Of Plame Name Leak Investigation
Forty-One Members Of Congress Ask Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald To Examine Bush Administration’s False Uranium Claims That Led To Disclosure Of CIA Operative’s Identity To Determine If Additional Federal Laws Were Broken Washington, D.C. - Troubled by what they see as violations of federal law that prohibit making false and fraudulent statements to Congress, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (…)

by benfrank
Bush says he may need more power in disasters
He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.
Props to SpeakSpeak
Bush wants the power to order the military to arrest people in the US. Currently, the military is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from arresting people in the US.
Protests can be declared “emergencies” for soldiers to arrest protestors.
Taken in the context of 100,000 dead in Iraq on (…)