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On Wed Sep 7 9:42 , erik schoster <ejschoster@xxxxxxxxx> sent:
>I'm glad to see this sort of discussion here - it seems to me the most
>appropriate place in a community of artists - what can art do? what can we
>do? what can be done? what should be done?
>
best,
>erik
>
am surprised people are in such support of the Red Cross ? ( previous posts )
i appreciate the above statement of what can be done now, it seems that in light of a project,
maybe people should take a second(s) and decide how to make some consistent chnages in ones daily run around the track,
no answers to the questions from me, but some good questions to be asking among this community.
some info below about places to donate funds ( #1 ) and some actions that are happening currently in Houston, TX ( #2 ).
best wishes to you all, ben
# 1.
Hurricane Katrina Mutual Aid Relief
September 4, 2005
Want to help out the people affected by Hurricane Katrina? Are you
interested in supporting grassroots efforts to help people, instead of
religious or corporate charities like the Starvation Army and the Red
Cross? There is a growing number of grassroots efforts around the
country which are providing direct aid and assistance to folks affected by
the hurricane and the conditions of capitalism and racism that
existed prior to the hurricane's arrival on the Gulf Coast.
Mayday DC, Infoshop News and other activists are teaming up to send one
such caravan to the affected areas. Our goal is to put crucial resources
such as water filters and vitamins into the hands of people affected by
the storm. We are sending one of our volunteers, Jamie "Bork" Loughner,
along with several street medics, down to the Gulf Coast with a truck full
of food, supplies and information. She is currently planning the logistics
of the trip and plans to leave Washington, DC on Labor Day. She also will
be doing reporting for Infoshop News and Indymedia. If you'd like to help
provide mutual aid to residents of the Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane
Katrina, please consider helping out with this project.
If you'd like to contribute money to this effort, please donate via one of
the following methods:
1) Directly to Bork (jamieandjoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) via PayPal.
2) Via Infoshop.org (Look for the donate button at
http://news.infoshop.org/)
3) Check or money order, made out to "Alternative Media Project", sent to
AMP, PO Box 7171, Shawnee Mission, KS 66207. Please note on the check that
your donation is for "Hurricane Katrina Relief."
Mayday DC is collecting supplies in Asheville, North Carolina [things can
be sent there]. Materials need to arrive in Asheville by Saturday,
September 10. Preferred items: Water filters, B & C vitamins, socks,
underwear, beans and rice in 20lb bags, and nutritional yeast.
Address/contact
Ken "Suncere" Thompkins
20 Merdock Ave
Asheville NC 28801
Phone: 828-215-2337
Email: bigblackafrica2000@xxxxxxxxx
Bork can be reached at: 202-246-7665
Please bookmark Infoshop's page on Hurricane Katrina relief:
http://www.infoshop.org/hurricanekatrina.html
This page will be updated with information on other relief efforts,
including Food Not Bombs.
Other useful links:
Grassroots/Low-income/People of Color-led Hurricane Katrina Relief
http://www.sparkplugfoundation.org/katrinarelief.html
New Orleans Indymedia
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/
Mayday DC
http://maydaydc.mahost.org/
maydaydc@xxxxxxxxxxx - 202-246-7665
Let's put our mutual aid where our mouths are and show that people can
help each other out without government help.
Chuck Munson
for Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project
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# 2.
http://www.prometheusradio.org/katrina_ten_thousand_radios_release.doc
Contact: Professor Tish Stringer, tish@xxxxxxxx, (713) 478-4559
Contact: Hannah Sassaman, hannahjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, (215)-727-9620
Relief volunteers and Independent Media organizers in Houston, Texas, in
collaboration with refugees from Hurricane Katrina, have gotten
permission from the Federal Communications Commission and the City of
Houston, Texas to build a 30 watt radio station to serve the families
currently living at the Houston Astrodome and adjacent buildings.
These volunteers, led by a community media publishing group called
Houston Indymedia, are working with volunteer professional engineers and
technicians from all over the United States to get this station on the
air. The Prometheus Radio Project, a not-for-profit organization that
builds Low Power FM radio stations all around the United States, has
worked throughout the weekend to facilitate the legal and timely launch
of this radio station.
"Families are putting up notices on the walls to find lost parents and
children, and then crying themselves to sleep at night, as they start to
let the weight of the past week bear down on them," said Hannah
Sassaman, an organizer at Prometheus. "This station will provide
critical information for families putting their lives back together, as
well as the comfort of programming made by refugees and volunteers in
Houston, just for them."
The Houston Indymedia volunteers, who produce a radio program on
Pacifica radio station KPFT, are moving their whole studio to the
Astrodome and working with volunteers from as far away as Portland,
Oregon to get the station on the air right away. But they'll need more
equipment -- radios for all the potential listeners -- to make it
possible. When the station is online, you'll be able to listen to it
remotely at http://evacuationradioservices.org/.
"The FCC, the City of Houston, and the staff of the Astrodome want this
station to go on the air," says Rice University professor and Indymedia
organizer Tish Stringer. "But the Astrodome staff won't let the station
launch until we have enough radios for all the families. We may have
some leads on 10,000 plus radios, but we still need funds to buy them --
not to mention batteries -- and to help keep this station going and to
help get other stations like it up across Houston and the Gulf."
The telecommunications industry and the grassroots media justice
community are mobilizing to build communications infrastructure for the
displaced people of the Gulf. But some broadcasters wish there had been
more options for emergency relief before the storm and its aftermath
hit.
Tom Hanlon, a volunteer with a property owners' association in Baton
Rouge that has been waiting 5 years for their Low Power FM radio license
to come through, said this about the exodus from New Orleans to Baton
Rouge: "A lack of accurate information, coupled with the time spent
tracking down false rumors, did more to delay the mobilization of Baton
Rouge than any hurricane. We need more LPFM stations in our cities to
help with these crises in the future."
To learn more, please call the Prometheus Radio Project at 215-727-9620,
or visit them online at http://www.prometheusradio.org. To donate time
or services to telecommunications efforts in Houston, visit
http://houston.indymedia.org.
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