kanye west is my hero
If you don't have a TV (like me), you can watch the clip here: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Kayne-West-Bush-Black-People.wmv
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
Press conference to announce plan to save lives and demand role in rebuilding effort
HOUSTON - A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People's Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and long-term rebuilding of New Orleans.
Community Labor United (CLU), a New Orleans coalition of labor and community activists, has put out a call to activists and organizations across the country to work on a "people's campaign" of community redevelopment. Organizing efforts will take place across hundreds of temporary shelters. The population of New Orleans is 67 percent black and over 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, reflecting the current demographic of hurricane survivors displaced all over the South. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the White House, and Governor Blanco attempt to regain the public's trust by evading the question of who's to blame, a short and long-term plan for New Orleans hurricane survivors has remained in a political vault of silence.
"This is plain, ugly, real racism," states Curtis Muhammad, CLU Organizing Director. "While some politicians and organizations might skirt around the issue of race, we in New Orleans are not afraid to call it what it is. The moral values of our government is to 'shoot to kill' hungry, thirsty black hurricane survivors for trying to live through the aftermath. This is not just immoral-this has turned a natural disaster into a man-made disaster, fueled by racism."
Leaders of CLU, in alliance with nearly twenty other local organizations and several national organizations will discuss their plan at a press conference on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, at 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee. The coalition will announce:
· The formation of the New Orleans People's Committee composed of hurricane survivors from each of the shelters, which will:
1. Demand to oversee FEMA, the Red Cross, and other organizations collecting resources on behalf of the black community of New Orleans
2. Demand decision-making power in the long-term redevelopment of New Orleans
· Issue a national call for volunteers to assist with housing, healthcare, education, and legal matters for the duration of the displacement
Tax-exempt donations for the People's Committee and the national coalition
can be made out to: Young People's Project, 440 N. Mills St., Suite 200,
Jackson, MS 39202 or visit www.qecr.org.
Community Labor United is a coalition of progressive organizations in New Orleans formed in 1998. Their mission is to build organizational unity and support efforts that address poverty, racism, and education. CLU organized in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane.
Curtis Muhammad is a veteran Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer and co-founder of CLU.
For more information, please contact:
Curtis Muhammad
Community Labor United (CLU)
muhammadcurtis@bellsouth.net
Becky Belcore
Quality Education as a Civil Right (QECR)
bbelcore@hotmail.com
Becky Belcore
Volunteer Organizer
Louisiana Research Institute for Community Empowerment (LaRICE)
bbelcore@hotmail.com
Also:
The 'Dream Center' Shelter is in desperate need of volunteers. To help them, please contact the Dream
Center in Los Angeles at www.dreamcenter.org or in Louisiana call (it's mostlybusy- but keep trying) 225-474-6688.
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
Press conference to announce plan to save lives and demand role in rebuilding effort
HOUSTON - A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People's Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and long-term rebuilding of New Orleans.
Community Labor United (CLU), a New Orleans coalition of labor and community activists, has put out a call to activists and organizations across the country to work on a "people's campaign" of community redevelopment. Organizing efforts will take place across hundreds of temporary shelters. The population of New Orleans is 67 percent black and over 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, reflecting the current demographic of hurricane survivors displaced all over the South. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the White House, and Governor Blanco attempt to regain the public's trust by evading the question of who's to blame, a short and long-term plan for New Orleans hurricane survivors has remained in a political vault of silence.
"This is plain, ugly, real racism," states Curtis Muhammad, CLU Organizing Director. "While some politicians and organizations might skirt around the issue of race, we in New Orleans are not afraid to call it what it is. The moral values of our government is to 'shoot to kill' hungry, thirsty black hurricane survivors for trying to live through the aftermath. This is not just immoral-this has turned a natural disaster into a man-made disaster, fueled by racism."
Leaders of CLU, in alliance with nearly twenty other local organizations and several national organizations will discuss their plan at a press conference on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, at 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee. The coalition will announce:
· The formation of the New Orleans People's Committee composed of hurricane survivors from each of the shelters, which will:
1. Demand to oversee FEMA, the Red Cross, and other organizations collecting resources on behalf of the black community of New Orleans
2. Demand decision-making power in the long-term redevelopment of New Orleans
· Issue a national call for volunteers to assist with housing, healthcare, education, and legal matters for the duration of the displacement
Tax-exempt donations for the People's Committee and the national coalition
can be made out to: Young People's Project, 440 N. Mills St., Suite 200,
Jackson, MS 39202 or visit www.qecr.org.
Community Labor United is a coalition of progressive organizations in New Orleans formed in 1998. Their mission is to build organizational unity and support efforts that address poverty, racism, and education. CLU organized in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane.
Curtis Muhammad is a veteran Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer and co-founder of CLU.
For more information, please contact:
Curtis Muhammad
Community Labor United (CLU)
muhammadcurtis@bellsouth.net
Becky Belcore
Quality Education as a Civil Right (QECR)
bbelcore@hotmail.com
Becky Belcore
Volunteer Organizer
Louisiana Research Institute for Community Empowerment (LaRICE)
bbelcore@hotmail.com
Also:
The 'Dream Center' Shelter is in desperate need of volunteers. To help them, please contact the Dream
Center in Los Angeles at www.dreamcenter.org or in Louisiana call (it's mostlybusy- but keep trying) 225-474-6688.
posted by Carla at 10:17 PM
2 Comments:
hey, kanye west is so right too. but then again, the same could be said for damn near every person in a position of political power in this nation state from its inception til now. it's just off-the-charts with this jackass (and his "let them eat cake" mom from hell.) the ugly core of america is exposed again for all to see. i keep hoping this will be the moment – that we will really organize for real change. when are we gonna start listening to the likes of hugo chavez instead of the tv people? it's so damned easy to fool so many people here ... just put whatever shit you wanna sell on tv.
everyone who reads carla's blog already knows this, but please, please, please do NOT give any money to the FEMA-endorsed non-profits (one of which is a pat robertson outfit), including the red cross. carla's got some great stuff on here. kevin powell also has a good list, which you can see at www.wbia.org, and the san francisco bayview's coverage is excellent. give your money to local groups run by african americans and not to freaking anyone else.
the layers and layers of ugliness in all this need to be named and laid out, and we need to compel people to talk about why this country continues to like nothing better than generating profit and "letting" black people die and not go on and act as if everything's okay, because it is so not okay.
i wasn't able to volunteer as a legal observer or get a handle on the white vigilantes or cop misconduct because of some ridiculous obstacles and b.s. being pulled to keep people sequestered, on script, etc., but i did get to meet and talk with people who went through shit i am only now just beginning to fathom, incl. a woman athlete who'd always been in the best of health and who has been having 7-8 seizures (anxiety-related) a day.
there's a woman here from burma; she spent 5 years in a burmese prison for her activism. she told me she got physically sick the other day, walking around, seeing people out to dinner, partying, carrying on, etc., while people were dying, bodies were rotting, and the horror of it all only getting worse. i think that is the appropriate reaction. this country makes me sick.
and while i'm letting off steam, i am sick of hearing people say "this is not what america is." i heard so many well-intentioned people say that over the past few days. it took everything i had in me not to scream back (because these were folks trying to step in and really help) "this is exactly what america is."
thx for the msg, carla. love you.
this note is intended for Carla and others who wish to volunteer at the Dream Center. The Dream Center is a money making scam profiting off Katrina evacuees. MILLIONS of dollars are pouring into the center every day and the evacuees are being treated like chattle coralled, unable to come and go as they wish or have visitors, including priests or doctors come visit their rooms.
If you visit the Dream Center web site, you'll see that they have posted photos of the New Orleans evacuees. These pictures were posted without the evacuee's knoweldge that there would be a DONATE HERE link under their picture, making them into a poster child for raising money. My question to you is where is this money going? It's supposed to go to these Katrina evacuees but it's going straight into the pockets of Pastor Barnett, and his 70 club scamming associates. This is exactly like Jim Baker's enterprise.
Oh, and if you think that it's already been disproved because Ted Hayes recanted his views about corruption at the Dream Center, just know that he was bought off when the Dream Center bought a bunch of pods off him.
So, stick with the tried and true when you give money. Go with United Way, go with the Red Cross, go with Salvation Army. But if you don't believe me about the Dream Center, try making a person to person donation to someone inside the Dream Center who is an evacuee-- you won't be able to because these folks are surrounded by vacant eyed security guards in black shirts.
The Dream Center is like a Borg ship and its inhabitants, like The Borg from Star Trek -- a city of zombies. Perhaps worth seeing on Halloween!
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