Archive for September, 2005
People Finder
I was going to write about how you can help out victims of Katrina by volunteering your time to enter data into the People Finder database, but I see that they are down for the moment:
Friends -
Thanks to everyone’s generosity and goodness of spirit, we’ve managed to reduce the machine running the NON database to […]
Super Girls
I’ve been meaning to blog about “Super Girls” for a while, fortunately, Frank Dai has done such a good round-up of Super Girls coverage that I don’t have to:
Super Girls, a contest for female singers, has been the major entertainment event in China this summer. It was even evaluated to high level of social and […]
Ray Nagin
If you haven’t heard it already, listen now. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s radio interview will go down in history as the most frank and direct expression ever uttered by a politician. He clearly just doesn’t give a fuck anymore.
I have no idea what they’re doing, but I will tell you this: God is looking […]
Help ACORN!
What is ACORN?
the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 175,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in 75 cities across the U.S. and in cities […]
SS Deep Dixie
I earlier referred to Amardeep’s post on issues of race in the coverage of Katrina:
First, have you noticed that numerous articles refer to the affected region as “third world” in its devastation?
… The second issue circles around race within the U.S. If you watch the news footage of the post-Katrina rescue operations, you’ll notice again […]
Displacement
The largest displacement of Americans since the Civil War reverberated across the country from its starting point in New Orleans yesterday, as more than half a million people uprooted by Hurricane Katrina sought shelter, sustenance and the semblance of new lives.
… Rich and poor alike, they found themselves starting over. The former began buying new […]
Looting
(Via Left I on the News, who has additional comments.)
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