Posted on 09/07/2005 4:05:17 AM PDT by Renegade
Friends,
There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can't. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes, wars, and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.
So, in the next few days, I will write to you about what must be done about Bush and Co.
But today I want you to join with me in bypassing the colossally inept and incompetent Bush administration and get help DIRECTLY to the people of the New Orleans area -- right now.
A lot of you have written me to ask what you can do. Many don't know who to trust. Many want to do more than write a check. You are right to think that writing checks to relief agencies will not get water and aid to people in the next 48 hours. Checks will be needed later and can be written later.
I have a way, though, for each and every one of us to do something today that can affect people's lives TODAY.
For the past few days I've been working with a group that, I guarantee you, will get direct aid to the people who need it most.
Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush's ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need.
This is where we come in. We need to ship supplies to them immediately. Today they need the following:
Paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, baby diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, Pedialyte, baby items in general, powder, lotion, handy wipes, sterile gloves, electrolytes, LARGE cans of veggies, school supplies, and anything else to lift people's spirits.
You can ship these items by following the instructions on VFPRoadTrips.org. Or you can deliver them there in person. The roads to Covington are open. Here's how to get there. You can drop them off or you can stay and participate (if you stay, you'll be camping so bring your own tent and gear and mosquito spray).
If you can't ship these items or go there in person, then go to VFPRoadTrips.org and make an immediate donation through PayPal. Camp Casey-Covington will have immediate access to this cash and can buy the items themselves from stores that are open in Louisiana (all donations to Veterans for Peace, are tax deductible).
Each day I will post up-to-the minute information as to what is needed and the progress Camp Casey is making. Please visit MichaelMoore.com often and do what you can to help.
Many other groups are also doing good work. MoveOn.org has set up a system for people to offer rooms in their homes to the survivors.
There is no time to waste. People are suffering and dying. Each of us can do something. There is no other alternative.
Thank you in advance for your help. Tomorrow, we will take care of the other work we need to do about the ideologically hamstrung incompetents in charge.
Yours, Michael Moore Mike@MichaelMoore.com MichaelMoore.com
Hurrricane Michael: What a blowhard!
(Or is he merely a big-fat-stupid-lying-hateful Tropical Storm or a mere "Tropical Depression.")
Maybe they'll forcefully evacuate her... I know I've been thinking of her when I forcefully evacuate!
Question:
If the last 8 years have been the trigger for these natural and extreme weather changes ... was there any way to stop them anyway - considering the quickened (Art Bell phrase) changes of it all?
Everybody needs to call and complain to the REDCROSS these veterans for peace , sheehen people are scamming computer equipment etc..... They are piggybacking on the REDCROSS... Call and complain. The Redcross is not a political organization .
The Fed's should have brought in Michael Whoore to help clear all the water in NOLA. All he needed to do is perform a belly flop and all that water would have been gone!
"Not even a HURRICANE is going to take the spotlight off of us!!!!!"
Fat Mike forgot to mention Karl Rove's weather machine.
I am working as hard as I can to ensure that Bush does not get re-elected in 2008.
actually I think we've found exactly where to position the sludge pipe coming out of New Orleans...
The real thing is much, much uglier.
Read as: "I'm turning over the money to bubba and tubba."
Oh yeah, those "LARGE cans of veggies" should go fast. Let me dive into a can of turnips to "lift my spirits".
-Eric
Oh yeah, those "LARGE cans of veggies" should go fast.To paraphrase the late great Sam Kinison discussing Dr Ruth, "when was the last time you SAW a veggie, Michael?".
-Eric
Parked in their luxury tents, sipping beer and champagne and eating hot catered meals among the wretches DPs. Want that be special.
How many will they take in and feed.
I imagine that the NG, Honore's troops and the Federal responders will be pleased as well.
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