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  • Greens, Forward! To New Orleans!
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m challenging my party, the Green Party, to come down here and help us just as soon as things are a little more organized. The Republicans and Democrats didn’t do anything to prevent this or plan for it and don’t seem to care if everyone dies.
    by Malik Rahim
    Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the (…)

  • Grokking, Grasping the Legacy of Hurricane K - bl0g reports 8/31
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Citizen media, journalism, & reports as it happened on Wednesday August 31st. Real time web dispatches from across the Gulf as the historic disaster unfolded, survivor accounts, photos, amateur video, links to TV station forums, and a sample of the best bloggers - discovered in a half-day scour using blog search engines. This story must be told, full documentation and a wide-eyed, open assessment must be adamantly sought, to insure better preparation in the future, and accountability for (…)

  • Katrina calamity in America?
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dwarika Nath Rath from India
    We, in the third world countries has an cinematic impression about the sensitivity of the US citizens towards it’s citizens.There is an impression that it can go to any extent and spend billions in the rescue operation of it’s citizens.
    The US Govt.s deliberate silence sending warnings to the countries on Tsunami is a well known chapter. And again reaching with aids with heavy military to Srilanka and other S.E. Asia countries is an open truth. The post (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina: Is Looting a Question of Skin Color?
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by SPIEGEL ONLINE
    If the pain and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina wasn’t enough, now the looting has started on the streets of New Orleans. But many people simply need to feed their families and are consequently forced to "borrow" food from waterlogged grocery stores. So what makes somebody a looter? And does it have anything to do with the color of their skin?
    It didn’t take long for reports of looting to filter through. No sooner had Hurricane Katrina’s winds died down, than (…)

  • Breaking: Condi Rice Spends Salary on Shoes
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment.
    And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles.
    So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying a brief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised.
    What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on (…)

  • CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS REMARKS DURING THE TV ROUND TABLE.
    Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air, sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the (…)

  • ADELAIDE : NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN CALL TO ACTION
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Be Alert! Be Alarmed!
    Condoleezza Rice is coming to Adelaide!
    Rumsfeld may come too!
    Fellow Australians, Come to Adelaide in November and protest against the presence of Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, two central figures in the Bush Administration.
    The invasion of Iraq is a war crime
    Let’s show the world that Australians reject the US’ wars of empire; that we reject US militarism and unilateralism in world affairs because they undermine peace, justice and progress in the (…)

  • ’Cowboy’ Bush failed in Katrina evacuation, says Chavez
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. government, on Wednesday called President Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims.
    "That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television.
    His remarks came as U.S. authorities (…)

  • Iraq’s fig leaf constitution
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Scheer
    Who lost Iraq? Someday, as a fragmented Iraq spirals further into religious madness, terrorism and civil war, there will be a bipartisan inquiry into this blundering intrusion into another people’s history.
    The crucial question will be why a "preemptive" American invasion - which has led to the deaths of nearly 2,000 Americans, roughly 10 times as many Iraqis, the expenditure of about $200 billion and incalculable damage to the United States’ global reputation - has had (…)

  • NYU students gain big-labor support in protest
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Catherine Tymkiw
    New York University graduate students got help from national organized labor at a protest today over their working conditions.
    The graduate students, who are members of the United Auto Workers union, say they want a new contract to replace the one that expires today. They made the point with a protest that attracted more than 1,100 people, including students, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, actress Morgan Fairchild and politicians. The university says the union lost (…)