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NEWS
- Is everyone getting to vote?
- Landrieu reacts to flood maps
- Independent probe sought
- President fully warned, didn't ask a single question
- Katrina response "National Failure"
- Senator Landrieu urges united front on levees, protection
- To Restore or Rebuild? An Architect's Thoughts on Rebuilding
- levee comparisons "levity"
page in honor of
Dana Elise Yeargin Roberts
11/28/61-9/1/05, New Orleans
news (after allowing us to suffer, languish and die in a fully anticipated disaster, more lies, neglect, abandonment, corruption and foolishness...)
- “The entire Louisiana delegation, Republicans and Democrats alike, is united not only on the need for the administration to make an official request to fund these projects but also on the need for the federal government to assume 100% of the costs.”Read the rest of Senator Landrieu's reaction to need vs. the newly released FEMA flood maps (4/12/06)
- New Orleans dumps plenty, recycles little
- President fully warned, didn't ask a single question
- Bush then: "We will do whatever it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives."
- Bush now: "$85 billion is a lot ..." (for no-bid "disaster profiteers!"?)
- Lawsuit: foundation for wrongful death and damages class action suits
- flood Washington with demands for good Category 5 levees and to get the Corps of Engineers in gear to protect us
- Louisiana's stick - oppose sale of new offshore oil leases and demand 50% of mineral profits like other states
- budget out full restorations, reparations, and restitution demands
- support pro bono legal assistance
- Displaced voter information
- quality levees and flood walls ready by June 1
- New Orleans college students organized for service
- consideration for unequal hardships re: rebuilding and coming home
- wetland and community restoration commitments
- Displaced voter information
- Flood level map (Find address searching in Google maps)
- Greater N.O. Community Data Center / Greater N.O. Nonprofit Knowledge Works
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