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http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68727,00.html With most of New Orleans underwater, certain online resources have emerged as crucial access points for news, housing information and live community updates. Wired News has compiled a list of some of the best. http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/ Michael Barnett's LiveJournal: Barnett, (previously covered on Wired News), the de facto crisis manager of DirectNIC, a New Orleans-based hosting company, is blogging from inside the city. Updated very frequently. http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/ New Orleans Times-Picayune Breaking News Blog (RSS): The Times-Picayune has been doing a great job of providing news as it breaks. https://secure.hsus.org/01/disaster_relief_fund_2005? The Humane Society of America has deployed disaster teams to help rescue the thousands of trapped, injured and abandoned animals in the danger zone. The HSUS is currently seeking donations to help fund these missions. http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/ns08312005.cfm The AFL-CIO is seeking to gather 1,000 union members willing to volunteer wherever they're needed. The group is also collecting donations through its Union Community Fund. http://www.secondharvest.org/default2.asp America's Second Harvest, a food bank network, has delivered 7.7 million lbs of food to the disaster area, and promises that 100% of its donations are going directly toward feeding Katrina victims. ------------------- Now Let's Rescue America: Nine Key Steps For The Left By Van Jones The troops have arrived, and the waters are receding. The battered and traumatized residents are being transported - we hope and pray - to safer ground. But the battle to save New Orleans is not over - not by a long shot. The work to rescue it, and the country, has just begun. The coming struggle will be difficult - stretching over a decade or more. But if we dedicate ourselves, the outcome is certain. The puffed-up potentate who fiddled while New Orleans drowned will lose his grip on power - and so will his party. And the people of New Orleans will live in a resurrected city - their hometown rebuilt by a nation more deeply committed to justice and equality. That result is possible - but only if our progressive networks create a force strong enough to achieve it. The post-Katrina moment provides a rare opportunity for us to come together and win real change... see http://snipurl.com/hjpt -------------------- http://snipurl.com/hjpy Thu Sep 8, 6:30 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former secretary of state Powell critical of US response to Katrina Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell had tough words for federal, state and local authorities on their response to Hurricane Katrina in a television interview to air Friday. "I think there have been a lot of failures at a lot of levels --- local, state and federal," Powell said in an interview with the ABC News program "20/20," to air late Friday. "There was more than enough warning over time about the dangers to New Orleans. Not enough was done. I don't think advantage was taken of the time that was available to us, and I just don't know why," he said. Powell was asked if the slipshod government response to the disaster was due to racism, since the overwhelming majority of the victims are poor African-Americans. "I don't think its racism, I think its economic," Powell said. "When you look at those who werent able to get out, it should have been a blinding flash of the obvious to everybody that when you order a mandatory evacuation, you cant expect everybody to evacuate on their own. "These are people who dont have credit cards; only one in ten families at that economic level in New Orleans have a car. So it wasn't a racial thing --- but poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor," he said. ABC interviewed Powell via telephone Thursday morning for his reaction to the government response to Katrina after the former top US diplomat visited shelters in Dallas, Texas. The bulk of ABC's sit-down interview with Powell, his first major interview since leaving government in January 2005, was on Iraq and the US-led war on terror. ----------------- http://www.alternet.org/story/24938/ NAACP Disaster Relief Efforts The NAACP, America's oldest civil rights organization, is setting up command centers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as part of its disaster relief efforts. NAACP units across the nation have begun collecting resources that will be placed on trucks and sent directly into the disaster areas. Also, the NAACP has established a disaster relief fund to accept monetary donations to aid in the relief effort. Checks can be sent to the NAACP payable to: NAACP Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund 4805 Mt. Hope Drive Baltimore, MD 21215 Donations can also be made online. You can mail or ship nonperishable items to the following locations, which we have confirmed are REALLY delivering services to folks in need: Center for LIFE Outreach Center 121 Saint Landry Street Lafayette, LA 70506 attn: Minister Pamela Robinson 337-504-5374 Mohammad Mosque 65 2600 Plank Road Baton Rouge, LA 70805 attn: Minister Andrew Muhammad 225-923-1400 225-357-3079 Lewis Temple CME Church 272 Medgar Evers Street Grambling, LA 71245 attn: Rev. Dr. Ricky Helton 318-247-3793 St. Luke Community United Methodist Church c/o Hurricane Katrina Victims 5710 East R.L. Thornton Freeway Dallas, TX 75223 attn: Pastor Tom Waitschies 214-821-2970 S.H.A.P.E. 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