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NYT: 'Almost an epidemic of depression' in New Orleans
Monday, 26 June 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
New Orleans is afflicted with "what appears to be almost an epidemic of depression," according to an article slated for the front page of Wednesday's New York Times, RAW STORY has found.
Incompetence? Crime? You decide
Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
FEMA disregarded its own hurricane response plans by not allowing the Interior Department and other federal and local agencies to aid in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit.
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New Orleans evacuation plan has holes
Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:08 P GMT-05
New Orleans officials release a new evacuation plan for the city in the event of a major hurricane. Yet the plan is lacking... and that puting it mildly.
Jackson rallies against New Orleans vote
Tuesday, 21 March 2006 4:25 P GMT-05
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is touring Southern cities this week to rally opposition to next month's mayoral election in New Orleans, saying too many Hurricane Katrina victims scattered around the country will be unable to vote.
Fifty Dollars and a Dream
Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:59 A GMT-05
The Common Ground Collective: how it began.
March in Washington, DC to stop evictions of those displaced by Katrina
Friday, 24 February 2006 10:14 P GMT-05
On March 28, 2006 there will be a march in Washington, DC to stop evictions of those displaced by Katrina who are currently in FEMA-funded hotels.
New Orleans Locals Think Katrina's Toll Is Still Rising
Sunday, 19 February 2006 9:10 A GMT-05
Surge in Deaths Blamed On Storm-Related Stress
After Blocking the Bridge, Gretna Circles the Wagons
Friday, 16 September 2005 10:15 P GMT-05
Long wary of next-door New Orleans, the town stands by its decision to bar the city's evacuees.
Ice Runs
Friday, 16 September 2005 11:57 A GMT-05
A neighborhood survives in New Orleans — without any government help.
If you get to talk to the President, ask him this question
Thursday, 15 September 2005 4:11 P GMT-05
The tech from Liebert who was going to perform maintenance on our UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) for the data center was turned away since the President is here in the city today. Now I ask you, which is more important: a speech or the telecommun
September 2, 2005: FOX News reporting from NOLA
Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:03 P GMT-05
Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera reporting it as it is from NOLA.
The federal response to Katrina is a disaster in its own right
Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:27 A GMT-05
Chertoff - deliberately or through sheer incompetence - delayed the federal response to Katrina by days, potentially causing unneeded casualties on a catastrophic scale.
As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories'
Wednesday, 14 September 2005 7:47 A GMT-05
The military is still stopping reporters from photographing bodies being recovered in New Orleans.
We had to kill our patients
Tuesday, 13 September 2005 3:53 P GMT-05
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
New Orleans or Baghdad?
Sunday, 11 September 2005 10:57 P GMT-05
The Bush administration wrote off New Orleans because it's not part of America, it's merely part of the coming American empire. The president referred to us as “this part of the world.” Not “part of our country,” but part of a world that, lik
Katrina: Republican governance drowns in the bowl of New Orleans
Sunday, 11 September 2005 9:52 P GMT-05
Katrina was a failure of the Republican theory of governance
9/11 to Katrina: let us honor the victims by finding out the truth behind their deaths
Sunday, 11 September 2005 7:13 P GMT-05
A way to truly honor the memory of those who died in those disasters.
U.S. won't ban media from New Orleans searches
Sunday, 11 September 2005 6:01 P GMT-05
Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.
Joint Task Force Katrina "has no plans to bar, impede or prevent news media fr
New Orleans: the specter of military dictatorship
Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:47 A GMT-05
The first 11 days of the disaster have revealed two political truths about present-day America.
Police made their storm misery worse
Friday, 9 September 2005 2:41 P GMT-05
Police locked people in the flooded city, sometimes with no supplies to stay alive.
Locals - Loose Barge Broke The New Orleans Levee
Friday, 9 September 2005 3:35 A GMT-05
Locals from Lakeview subdivision of New Orleans report that after Katrina passed a loose barge struck levee causing breach that flooded city.
WMR has just been informed by evacuees in Baton Rouge from Lakeview, a well-to-do New Orleans neighborho
Warnings were loud and clear - but still city drowned
Thursday, 8 September 2005 3:57 P GMT-05
The authorities were warned as to what to expect - and they were warned in no uncertain terms.
A bit of News From New Orleans
Monday, 5 September 2005 8:39 P GMT-05
Here is an excellent blog from the epicenter of the events:http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/And here is a very interesting comment to one of the entries there:
New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes
Thursday, 1 September 2005 6:08 P GMT-05
Four days after Hurricane Katrina roared in with a devastating blow that inflicted potentially thousands of deaths, the frustration and anger mounted, despite the promise of 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting, plans for a $10 billion
Free-for-all as looters lose scruples and grab what they can
Wednesday, 31 August 2005 7:09 P GMT-05
One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.
"No," he shouted, "that's everybody's store. To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportuni
