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Activist Authors’ Plan to “Globalize Liberation” Four progressive authors and activists spoke last night at the Center for Political Education, sharing their thoughts on movement-building and the realization of social change. The event was titled “Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World”, after the speakers’ recent anthology by the same name. Editor and anti-war activist David Solnit introduced the event by discussing “the new radicalism”, and how today’s grassroots movements should differ from yesteryear’s....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:54am PDT
Bush Administration Responsible for New Orleans Disaster 
How New Orleans Was Lost
by Paul Craig Roberts
Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war.
There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:39am PDT
"Katrina's Real Name is Global Warming" As the Bush administration promotes regulations that allow more pollution from power plants, we look at the increased impact of human-induced global warming in the form of extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:27am PDT
Homeland Emergency: Disaster Relief is Suffering Under New DHS Bureaucracy The Department of Homeland Security is spending billions on domestic spying and counter terrorism – is disaster relief getting sidelined? We look at the first major test of the massive homeland security bureaucracy with Matthew Brzezinski, author of “Fortress America.”...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:26am PDT
The Drowning of New Orleans: Hurricane Devastation Was Predicted The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote three years ago, "It's only a matter of time before south Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. Billions have been spent to protect us, but we grow more vulnerable every day." We look at the lack of infrastructure preparedness in the Big Easy....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:25am PDT
Bill Quigley in New Orleans Hospital: “No Water, Sick, No Heat, Call Somebody for Help” We go to New Orleans and Law Professor Bill Quigley who is trapped in Memorial Hospital with hundreds of other people. There is no water or electricity in the hospital and relief efforts have yet to reach them....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:24am PDT
Superdome exodus on hold after shots, fires National Guard troops in armored vehicles poured into New Orleans on Thursday to curb the growing lawlessness that included shots reportedly fired at a helicopter airlifting people out of the Superdome and arson fires outside the arena....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 7:20am PDT
Hurricane Katrina: The People Did Not Have to Die There was no way to stop Hurricane Katrina, but the chaos, suffering and death that resulted from this storm WAS preventable. Why didn’t the government organize massive and systematic evacuation? Why weren’t the levees maintained? Why were so many people left to fend for themselves?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 12:15am PDT
Katrina aftershocks: Biz roundup Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Wednesday that the White House plans on tapping the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help refiners hurt by Hurricane Katrina. The move gave some relief to soaring oil prices....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 12:00am PDT
Cuba militant ends US asylum bid Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles has withdrawn his application for asylum in the United States at a court hearing....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 11:13pm PDT
Bush rules out significant federal aid to hurricane victims Only hours after reports that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina may number in the thousands, President Bush delivered perfunctory remarks that offered little except condescending sympathy to the victims of the worst natural disaster in American history....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:50pm PDT
New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered nearly the entire active police force in the flood-ravaged city to abandon rescue operations Wednesday night and focus on efforts to halt looting. The decision came in response to mounting pressure from sensationalized media coverage which is increasingly placing emphasis on the property damage done by looters, suggesting that it has become nearly as significant a social problem as the virtual destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:47pm PDT
A million more Americans living in poverty US poverty increased as real wages stagnated and more Americans lost health insurance between 2003 and 2004, according to Census data released August 30. The latest estimates are based on information collected in 2005, combined with a slightly older annual supplement to the federal Current Population Survey....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:45pm PDT
New Orleans: Cuts in spending to raise levees blamed on cost of war in Iraq John Vidal, environment editor, and Duncan Campbell
Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 9:08pm PDT
Katrina refugees will go to Houston's Astrodome HOUSTON – At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina's refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, will travel in a bus convoy to Houston and will be sheltered at the Astrodome, which hasn't been used for professional sporting events in years....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 9:07pm PDT
Bring the National Guard home. Immediately. Norman Solomon asked that his earnest plea be reposted as widely as possible....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 5:05pm PDT
help animal rescue efforts in hurricane-ravaged areas EARS, Emergency Animal Rescue Service, needs support to help rescue animals from flooded regions...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 12:02pm PDT
9/1Press Conf. of National Orgs Opposed to Roberts NOW Joins Organizations Representing Millions of People to Report on Grassroots Opposition to Roberts as his Record Becomes Known...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 11:47am PDT
Black Activist Ntwk. Coordinating Aid for Louisiana The Black Action Network needs your help in putting together community activist
groups who want to help in
any kind of way. The Black Action Network originates from south Louisiana....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 11:03am PDT
Inside New Orleans Hospital: Who is Left Behind? The Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, ... As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina continues to unfold, we go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill Quigley of Loyola University. Quigley, who is volunteering at Memorial Hospital, said, "The people who are in New Orleans are - in all honesty - dying and there could be a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help, real fast."...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 7:24am PDT
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