Movie star couple Kelly Preston and John Travolta stop and visit first responders at the Jefferson Parish Sherrif Operations Center5 in Metairie, Louisiana, near New Orleans. They delivered five tonnes of food for victims of Hurricane Katrina
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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
bookmarking post.
Sounds like a wholesome family friendly bunch, don't they? /s
Did you hear Brit Hume tonight saying that those shelters and the food and water WERE the responsibility of NO and LA?
What we've been talking about for days is going to come out this week. We're just ahead of the curve.
6. Through incompetence, stupidity, and laziness, the Democrats left 250,000 people to die.
Their base; and now they are going to stand self-rightously on their corps and blame Bush.
"Ouch! Sounds like one Homeland advisor slammed Timmy pretty good. I like it."
That's Tim Russert and the NYT - bottom feeders. There are many more that can be added to that category.
Did you get the original post about this off of a thread here on FR?
If not, it needs a thread of its own, IMHO.
But, I was just going to bed when I saw your post about that, and now I am so mad...
I have to go anyway...do you think that presser they plan tomorrow afternoon will be on any of the stations...or links at the head of this thread?
I wonder how much paper shredding has been going on in government offices this week??
I have to say it was a smart tack that Frist used to subdue the Dems on this issue.
Movie star couple Kelly Preston and John Travolta stop and visit first responders at the Jefferson Parish Sherrif Operations Center5 in Metairie, Louisiana, near New Orleans. They delivered five tonnes of food for victims of Hurricane Katrina
Vinnie Barbarino was too late.
I'm sure they have enough confetti for Mardi Gras by now!
Hurricane Katrina victim George Talley, 28, of Bay St. Louis, shows a triage ticket emergency personnel have been using to classify the seriousness of victim's injuries, Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, in Bay St. Louis, MS. Medical doctors from Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., treated Talley for a fractured hand by stabilizing it with screws and pins. Doctors told Talley to return in about two weeks to have the pins taken out.
I bet he flew that food in on his plane.
I did not know that SNCC was still around. The organization goes back to the early 60's and the desegregation protests. The Greensboro,NC, lunch room sit-in was one of them. Distiguished former members include--Mayor Marion Berry, Cong. Elijah Cummings and Julian Bond.
Awesome!!!
Tx-I can't post it in it's own thread. It's a typepad url.
Here's more Curtis and his buddies. I think this is more than enough for us to know where Curtis stands.
The convergence was to call out to artists, educators, and organizers to share ideas and work in building a movement for social change. Events began Friday night at the Tulane Diboll conference center. Talvin Wilks of New World Theatre at UMASS welcomed the participants and explained the purpose of the convergence. Wilks talked the convergence’s history. In October of 2003, artists and organizers met in Flint, Michigan at the Activating Democracy Conference. There Grace Lee Boggs spoke on the need for collaboration of artists, organizers, and educators in movement building. New Orleanians, Curtis Muhammad and John O’Neal who work with The Colorlines project proposed convening in New Orleans in 2004.
Following Wilks, key note speaker Bill Fletcher, Jr., of TransAfrica Forum took the floor on the topic of movement building. Bill Fletcher, who has extensive background in organized labor, now works with TransAfrica Forum. TransAfrica Forum, according to their website, is “a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the general public – particularly African Americans – on the economic, political and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.” Fletcher challenged progressives to participate in the struggle, not just observe it. Progressive organizers, artists, and educators need to address the sexism, racism, and classism in their work, to understand their middle class privileges and social barriers, to be a voice with the struggle and not for it. Fletcher also described the differences and similarities between Clintonian neo-liberal “first among equals” capitalism and Bush and company’s “cowboy”policies. “Cowboy” capitalism, according the Fletcher, can be summed up in four points:
a) US is a capitalist nation, and shall maintain its supremacy having no competition like the USSR during the Cold War.
b) Everyone is to be capitalist, there are to be no other economic systems but capitalism, under the supremacy of the U.S.
c) If you don’t agree, you are a terrorist.
d) The U.S. has the right to declare war on those we deem terrorists.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:igK8AjEn1ekJ:nola.indymedia.org/print.php%3Fid%3D1042++%22Curtis+Muhammad%22+louisiana&hl=en
I agree with TxSleuth; That needs it's own thread.
I guess I need to reasearch no longer :-). That's all I needed to know.
Thanks for a very interesting post. There's just so much I don't know about the procedures of government -- it helps to have you and others here at FR to explain and sort it out.
I agree with you on the cookie jar concept. Somehow we Americans need to break away from so much dependence, and even simply thoughts of dependence, on the Federal government to solve all problems. I do think through the years the Fed has itself greatly created this problem. Hopefully, we can all gain from the lessons learned from watching the Katrina events.
Bump!
Guess they are counting on everyone to be 'PC' and go along with their Race Card tactic.
What they don't realize is that are turning off a lot of moderate, apolitical, and independent types. Not to mention some of their very own constituency. At least that's been my experience over the past week.
The majority of the population isn't buying what they are selling.
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