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Title: Announcements on Craiglist about Organizing Housing and other Practical Help for Hurricane Katrina Victims
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craigslist.org
URL Source: http://www.craigslist.org/
Published: Aug 30, 2005
Author: n/a
Post Date: 2005-08-30 17:43:58 by robin
Keywords: Announcements, Organizing, Craiglist
Views: 276
Comments: 11
These are wonderful ideas, and craigslist enables such advertisment and annoucements by area. Bay Area Artists lets unite to help the Hurricane Katrina effort!!! Craigslist also has local political forums with good stuff like this: Louisiana National Guard Watches Katrina From Iraq Funny how easily Republicans are willing to believe any cover-up, any BS propaganda, anything but the truth. It was announced that Louisiana was in deep shit and had to borrow National Guardsmen from other states because theirs had been deployed to Iraq. The rest following that is the administration tap-dancing to cover up their blundering foreign policy which has made the entire planet, including Louisiana, less safe. Louisiana National Guard troops watch Katrina from Iraq More than 3,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Brigade serving in Iraq can only watch from Baghdad as Hurricane Katrina bears down on their families and homes in New Orleans and the other south Louisiana communities from which they hail. The deployed soldiers and their equipment, which includes high water vehicles, Humvees and generators, will be sorely missed as Louisiana attempts to prepare for and recover from the historic Category Five storm. The soldiers of the 256th are due home in October, assuming their tour isn’t extended to beef up US troop levels in Iraq for the October constitutional referendum and December general elections. Mississippi and Alabama, the other states under threat from Katrina’s second assault on the Gulf Coast, also have Guard contingents in Iraq, with 3,500 troops of Mississippi’s 155th Brigade Combat Team serving near Karbala and Najaf, while 140 Alabama Guard troops left last Sunday for training preparatory to joining some 2,000 Alabama troops already deployed overseas. Governors throughout the country have watched anxiously as the Guard units they count on to see their states through natural disasters have been called up for service in Iraq, in many cases leaving behind tanks and other heavy armor while taking with them the kinds of equipment that are most valuable in coping with the aftermath of storms, floods and earthquakes. President Bush has already created one Gulf wasteland. In a few days he’ll be offering condolences to the residents of another; one he didn’t create, only stripped of its guardians in service of something he can’t even define.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Good piece. Reality bites.
Spread the word ping!
"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce." - Richard Cobden -
Category 5 "Ouch" - love it!
Someone needs to tune in to the 700 Club or TBN and see what they're doing. It's my belief, that Robertson's comments about Chavez brought on this Hurricane, so let's make him pay! He's probably going to get even wealthier off the donations that pour in intended for Katrina's victims.
"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce." - Richard Cobden -
Funny you mention that. I just happened to watch the opening segment today (honest, it was accidental). Pat was teary eyed as his reporter on the scene broke down and cried in the middle of an interview. I think he's calling his soon to be effort, Operation Southern Screw.
LOL!! "Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce." - Richard Cobden -
I just read 35% are deployed in Iraq. Check the article at the top.
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." – General Smedley Butler
Freakin' funny :)
LOL! ping!
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." – General Smedley Butler
I see the 3,000, but not the 35 percent.
It was another article, here's one from Chicago Tribune:
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." – General Smedley Butler
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild, a name famous in every capital of Europe, and every division of the globe." -Benjamin Disraeli
#2. To: All, Eoghan, Zipporah, christine, lodwick, Jethro Tull, MUDDOG, Esso, Grumble Jones, Red Jones, justlurking, Diana, CAPPSMADNESS, Dakmar, tom007, timetobuildaboat, alpowolf, Lady X, Bayonne, wbales, Elliott Jackalope, aristeides, OKCSubmariner (#0)
#3. To: robin (#0)
More than 3,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Brigade serving in Iraq can only watch from Baghdad as Hurricane Katrina bears down on their families and homes in New Orleans and the other south Louisiana communities from which they hail. The deployed soldiers and their equipment, which includes high water vehicles, Humvees and generators, will be sorely missed as Louisiana attempts to prepare for and recover from the historic Category Five storm.
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#5. To: robin (#4)
Someone needs to tune in to the 700 Club or TBN and see what they're doing. It's my belief, that Robertson's comments about Chavez brought on this Hurricane, so let's make him pay!
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#5)
Pat was teary eyed as his reporter on the scene broke down and cried in the middle of an interview. I think he's calling his soon to be effort, Operation Southern Screw.
#7. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
According to NPR, 3,000 of Louisiana's 11,000 National Guard troops are in Iraq. The other 8,000 were called up for service in-state.
#8. To: robin (#6)
#9. To: swarthyguy (#0)
Baghdad on the Bayou.
#10. To: robin (#7)
I just read 35% are deployed in Iraq. Check the article at the top.
#11. To: DeaconBenjamin (#10)
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