Sept. 3: Meeting: Re New Orleans

The caption on whitehouse.gov begins, President George W. Bush is handed a map by Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin.

I was out shopping yesterday and thought that they must be partying in the White House. Katrina gets the media off their backs. For them it's a slam dunk. There's no way they can screw this one up. But, of course, if there is a way, they'll find it. Well! We know now that they found it. Too little, too late. If all their resources weren't focused on the disastrous war in Iraq, there would have been more available to help the (mostly Black) victims of Katrina.
It seems to me that if you want proof that there is no "intelligent designer," George W. Bush and his cohorts in the White House should be more than enough. No one with a modicum of intelligence would have designed this administration. Unless it was a really bad joke on us.
Anyway here's an alternative to the official incompetence.

From The Brecht Forum:

EMERGENCY MTG on New Orleans, etc
SAT 9/3 1 pm

Hi Everybody,

Many of us are feeling an overwhelming amount of pain and trauma watching direct racism and hate kill our sisters and brothers in New Orleans, MS, AL, (and TX)...Because we know that the state (whether government or multi-million dollar ngos)does not have our interests at heart, we are thinking/planning different ways to support/serve people in this moment:
Some of us are planning to go south; some are collecting food, supplies, clothing, money; some are organizing cultural events; some are activating our networks to offer housing...

Let's Meet. We have a lot collective strength & are neither helpless nor powerless. We do not have to depend on the state to serve the people... ~Kai Lumumba Barrow (Critical Resistance) and Liz Roberts (Brecht Forum)

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

EMERGENCY MEETING:
Saturday, Sept. 3rd
1:00pm
To discuss how we can pool our collective resources and develop concrete/radical/human strategies to support/serve the people in New Orleans, MS, AL, TX...

The Brecht Forum, 451 West St.(West Side Highway btwn Bank & Bethune)
PHONE: 212.462.4382 or 212.242.4201

(DIRECTIONS BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: (for driving directions please check www.brechtforum.org) A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left.
1, 2, or 3 to 14th Street & 7th Ave, get off at south end of station, walk west on 12th Street to 8th Ave. left to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left.
PATH Train to Christopher Street north on Greenwich St to Bank Street, left to the river.
#11 or #20 Bus to Abingdon Square, west on Bethune.
#14A or #14D Bus to 8th Ave & 14th Street, walk down 8th Ave. and west on Bethune to the river.)

(photo Posted by Kathryn Cramer )