The March is on in Washington, D.C. The anti-war movement march today, heralded by Cindy Sheehan, is massive to say the least… Word from the ground, via phone conversations with Mario Romero, who is in the thick of it with members of PDA, is that there are 250,000 – 300,000 people there. William Rivers Pitt is liveblogging at Truthout.org. Pitt earlier reported there “more than a hundred thousand people here.” I mentioned that to Mario, he caught up with...
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Pentagon Sending 500 Soldiers to Louisiana
The Pentagon on Saturday was sending about 500 active-duty soldiers to the areas of Louisiana hit by Hurricane Rita and said about 27,000 National Guardsmen were ready to respond in Texas and Louisiana. Five mortuary teams went to Texas. Troops from the 82nd Airborne Division headed to Lafayette, La., about 135 miles west of New Orleans, to help with search-and-rescue efforts, said division commander Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell. He said about 3,200 of his soldiers would be prepared to...
‘Stay the Course?’ What Course?
From Think Progress: Former Head of U.S. Central Command Blasts Administration Over Iraq
Winds of Change
"Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster," Jim Wallis, editor of the evangelical journal Sojourner's, told a Washington Post reporter last week.
McKinney-Vento Act
A number of states, including Utah and Texas, want to teach some of the dispersed Gulf Coast students in shelters instead of in local public schools, a stance supported by the Bush administration and some private education providers. But advocates for homeless families and civil rights oppose that approach.
‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’
Skimming through the New York Times this morning, came across this article, Art of the Internet, which lead me to Karmagrrrl’s blog. Watch the video she made with Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” Sphere: Related Content
Houstan Abandons Its Homeless and Poor Ahead of Rita
Here we go again… AFP News is reporting that “Houston abandons its neediest ahead of Hurricane Rita.” As the first winds of Hurricane Rita whipped at the power lines across the street, Virginia Lewis Mansfield huddled in a doorway with all her earthly possessions within arm’s reach. Homeless for the past three years, Mansfield found herself on the streets of Houston Friday night as many of her usual shelters were closed ahead of the hurricane. Sphere: Related Content
Hurricane Rita is Bearing Down
Hurricane Rita is bearing down… The inner eye of the hurricane, was “just a few hours” from slamming into the coast, close to the state border, near the Sabine pass, said the US National Hurricane Center in its latest advisory issued at 0300 GMT. Sphere: Related Content
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