Reply to "Beams to New Orleans"

Karen M.Raconteur

Yesterday on NPR they mentioned two photos run simultaneously by the AP, one showing a black man walking in water with "looted" goods, and the other showing a white couple walking with "food and water they had found at a local store." It's sickening. I actually feel sick to my stomach, it's so awful, what it shows about this administration...and, worse, of course, how there will be the media spin and a lot of people still won't SEE it, even right there in their faces.

Here are suggestions for donations that could go directly to shelters, etc:
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/zip/94803916.html

And Move On is trying to organize a housing drive, if anyone knows people, especially within a few hundred miles of the site, who would willing to help put up displaced folk:

http://www.hurricanehousing.org?id=5945-1529297-YAHwLTVLSwb9HqgwEBQeEg

9/2/052:31 PM

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