[Vision2020] Immediate Aid to New Orleans

[Pat Kraut]

Perhaps you have missed the news reports but there are so many people there helping I am surprised they aren't crowding each other out! It is another wonderful example of the goodness of people for those in deep trouble. I must confess that I also would be concerned for the organization of two people who have not done this before. An established group such as the Red Cross would be better to me however, I am sure there will be those who will send money to them. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr 
  To: Vision2020 Moscow 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:29 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Immediate Aid to New Orleans


  "War Room" is written by Tim Grieve and published on Salon.com. I'm forwarding this without permission. Also, at the risk of being shouted off 2020, Michael Moore (www.michaelmoore.com) has an email up today about how to get supplies to New Orleans immediately. Forget FEMA. Cindy Sheehan -- remember her? -- has moved Camp Casey from Crawford, Texas to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. From there, she and her volunteers are distributing aid directly to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Moore has an address on his website for sending supplies to a local food bank/volunteer aid organization, where Sheehan and her crew pick them up for distribution. You can also donate money to Volunteers for Peace via PayPal, and they'll use it to buy supplies from whatever regional stores are still standing. 

  What's needed? Bottled water. Pedialyte. Diapers. Canned vegetables. School supplies.

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
  www.auntie-establishment.com

  >From Salon:

  The "blame game"? You can play along at home

  While insisting that now is no time for playing the "blame game," the president's supporters are busy blaming state and local officials for the inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina. They've claimed that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco didn't declare a state of emergency. She did, on Aug. 26, when the president was still on vacation. And they've claimed that Blanco was slow to ask for federal help. In fact, Blanco wrote a letter to the president on Aug. 28 in which she said that an "effective response" to Katrina's destruction would be "beyond the capabilities of the state and affected local governments" and requested federal help to "save lives" and "protect property."

  The president was on vacation then, too.

  But FEMA Director Michael Brown wasn't, and he got right to work. More or less. Internal FEMA documents show that Brown waited five hours after Katrina struck land on Aug. 29 before he asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to send 1,000 department employees to the Gulf Coast. And even then, he suggested that Homeland Security employees should have a couple of days to get themselves in place.

  Once in place, the Homeland Security employees would, among other things, "convey a positive image" of the government's response to the hurricane, Brown told Chertoff.

  -- T.G.

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