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Take the power and money out of the hands of FEMA and Halliburton/Bectel and give the money to the PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS to decide how to rebuild and who will rebuild!!
Urgent! Senate committee wants Katrina input - deadline TODAY 9/11
The Senate H.E.L.P. Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) has been requesting input on Katrina reconstruction. The deadline was changed from Friday 9/9 to Monday, 9/12 (but presume 9/11, by the end of today) to allow more input. . It’s a great (…)

For Immediate Release Sept. 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that she supports forming an anti-fraud commission to oversee government contracts issued in response to Hurricane Katrina:
"Congress is rightly spending billions of dollars to help the people and businesses of the Gulf Coast who have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To ensure taxpayers’ money goes to those in need, not to fraudulent contractors, we must establish an (…)

Officials promise that the state-of-the-art security fence constructed around Gaza will bring unprecedented security. The double security fence, surveillance cameras, robotic jeeps and remote-controlled machine guns are expected to provide a formidable barrier to terrorists, as are the low-tech pits and trenches. Officials explain that these measures will permit the IDF to maintain a low profile in the area without compromising Israel’s security interests.
At a cost of over NIS 1 billion, (…)

But how do we know if they’re telling us the truth?
by Jennifer Monroe
NEW ORLEANS, LA — (OfficialWire) — 09/11/05 — According to retired Col. Terry J. Ebbert, who oversees police and emergency operations as New Orleans’s chief of homeland security, "The numbers [of dead] so far are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000."
"There’s some encouragement in what we found in the initial sweeps," he said.
The first organized effort to search the city for its dead (…)

An Open Letter to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
On Loyalty:
by Stan Goff
I was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996. I signed out on my retirement from 3rd Special Forces in Ft. Bragg. I had also served in 7th Special Forces, on three Ranger assignments, with Delta for almost four years, as a Cavalry Scout for a while, and in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantryman. I started my career in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
I thugged around in eight (…)

As the situation grew steadily worse in New Orleans last week, you might have wondered why people didn’t just leave on foot. The Louisiana Superdome is less than two miles from a bridge that leads over the Mississippi River out of the city.
The answer: Any crowd that tried to do so was met by suburban police, some of whom fired guns to disperse the group and seized their water.
Around 500 people stuck in downtown New Orleans after the storm banded together for self-preservation, making (…)

Lehigh Valley PA extension of March in Washington
September 24th, 2-4pm, Cedar Beach, Allentown, southeast corner, Hamilton & Ott Sts.
While it is important for all concerned citizens to attend the March in Washington, September 24th, for various reasons many cannot do so. For this reason, a rally has been organized at Cedar Beach, Allentown PA, the southeast corner, Hamilton & Ott Sts., for September 24th, from 2-4pm, giving you an opportunity to take part locally!
Whatever (…)

NEW ORLEANS — Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the (…)

I’ve taken the advice of a few people and I have submitted this image to
Cafe Press.
Perfect for the September 24th protest
in Washington, D.C.!!!
A Memorable Souvenir For
Here’s a larger image to make your own poster. (There’s an even larger one at Cafe Press!)
Here are some 60 or so items available there:

To: The 95 countries that helped Katrina victims!
On behalf of myself and the American people we humbly thank you all for your generous support during these trying times of disaster relief for all of the victims that
were directly and indirectly affected by the Katrina Hurricane. We also humbly thank you as well as others who are helping to save our dear friends, the animals that are always forgotten in time of distress but yet are always our true friends. We are keenly aware as are (…)