[Howlin]

What the hell are you talking about?

They most certainly did use city buses all day Saturday to evacuated people from neigbhorhoods all over NO. There were 10 collection points in the city to pick them up.

And since you're acting like such an A$$, I'll return the reply: it's completely bad form to drag arguments from thread to thread.

And with that tone, I'm not offering JACK CRAP to you. You sound like a bitter person.

[hipaatwo]

Get a load of this:

New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

September 5, 2005, 3:30 p.m. CST



Press conference:

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee



New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors

Press conference to announce plan to save lives and

demand role in rebuilding effort

HOUSTON – A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People’s Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and long-term rebuilding of New Orleans.

Community Labor United (CLU), a New Orleans coalition of labor and community activists, has put out a call to activists and organizations across the country to work on a “people’s campaign” of community redevelopment. Organizing efforts will take place across hundreds of temporary shelters.

The population of New Orleans is 67 percent black and over 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, reflecting the current demographic of hurricane survivors displaced all over the South.

While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the White House, and Governor Blanco attempt to regain the public’s trust by evading the question of who’s to blame, a short and long-term plan for New Orleans hurricane survivors has remained in a political vault of silence.

“This is plain, ugly, real racism,” states Curtis Muhammad, CLU Organizing Director. “While some politicians and organizations might skirt around the issue of race, we in New Orleans are not afraid to call it what it is. The moral values of our government is to ‘shoot to kill’ hungry, thirsty black hurricane survivors for trying to live through the aftermath. This is not just immoral—this has turned a natural disaster into a man-made disaster, fueled by racism.”

Leaders of CLU, in alliance with nearly twenty other local organizations and several national organizations will discuss their plan at a press conference on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, at 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee. The coalition will announce:



· The formation of the New Orleans People’s Committee composed of hurricane survivors from each of the shelters, which will:

1. Demand to oversee FEMA, the Red Cross, and other organizations collecting resources on behalf of the black community of New Orleans

2. Demand decision-making power in the long-term redevelopment of New Orleans

· Issue a national call for volunteers to assist with housing, healthcare, education, and legal matters for the duration of the displacement



Tax-exempt donations for the People’s Committee and the national coalition can be made out to: Young People’s Project, 440 N. Mills St., Suite 200, Jackson, MS 39202 or visit www.qecr.org .



Community Labor United is a coalition of progressive organizations in New Orleans formed in 1998. Their mission is to build organizational unity and support efforts that address poverty, racism, and education. CLU organized in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane.

Curtis Muhammad is a veteran Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer and co-founder of CLU.

For more information, please contact:

Curtis Muhammad

Community Labor United (CLU)

muhammadcurtis@bellsouth.net

Becky Belcore

Quality Education as a Civil Right (QECR)
bbelcore@hotmail.com

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[DrewsMum]

I'm not trying to get in y'all spiff here,,,,but the busses in the pics that were flooded were school busses and aren't ya;ll talkin about city busses???

[Spktyr]

They used the city buses to take people to "shelters of last resort." At no point did they use buses (or any other mass transit system) to try to get people *out* of the city.

[Miss Behave]

Exactly the kind of reply I would expect from you, Howlon. You smacked someone down erroneously and authoritatively and then ran, not backing up your very dubious claim, despite questions to you.

Your very clear claim was that there was a mayoral plan and it was carried out that "[city] "buses were picking up people all over the city" and TAKING THEM OUT OF THE TOWN OF NEW ORLEANS. PERIOD.

You treat many posters like crap, whether they're right or wrong. And it's not right. I'm calling you on it because it's not the way to debate in civil adult manner. This has nothing to do with taking something thread to thread. This public evacuation matter is very important and you have clearly contradicted yourself in your chosen posted informational links and posts. This is a very specific subject of much interest and import, and it's great that most have chosen to treat it as such and search for the truth.

You are very quick to dish out crow by the buckets, but it's quite another story for you to eat your own cooking.

There, I said it. I stand by it. Good day.

And all the posts regarding this important matter of the supposed "city buses picking up people all over the city," and evacuating them out of the city, are on record for all to see and read, as many saw as you posted them. You have chosen to respond to me in a manner befitting your usual.