Hurricane Katrina Mutual Aid Relief

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Hurricane Katrina has affected hundreds of thousands around the United States. This page lists some alternative relief efforts which are working directly with the people affected by the hurricane, the government incompetence, and the years of racism and capitalism along the Gulf Coast.

Native Americans and Hurricane Aftermath

Indian Tribes and Hurricane Katrina: Overlooked by the Federal Government, Relief Organizations and the Corporate Media

Real Reports Returns: October 8th Native American Edition

Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana

Infoshop News and Mayday DC

Infoshop News, in conjunction with Mayday DC and members of Asheville APOC, is supporting an alternative mutual aid relief project called the Common Ground Wellness Center. This project has been set up in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans in cooperation with local residents. The project has provided medical care and supplies to hundreds of people in the past week. 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 effort. If you'd like to contribute money to this effort, please donate using the button linked below. Let's put our mutual aid where our mouths are and show that people can help each other without government help..

So far people have donated $6,056.62. Thank you!

Reports: First Report From Mayday DC/I-News Relief Effort in New Orleans | Community Efforts To Save Algiers, New Orleans, Continue | Statement of support from Red & Anarchist Action Network

Food Not Bombs - Southwest USA

Please help Food Not Bombs provide help for the victims of Katrina. We
plan to send another busload of food to the effected area. We URGENTLY
need your support! If you can help cook and serve food, have money you
can donate or have the time to call groceries and warehouses for food
please contact us at www.foodnotbombs.net. You can make a financial
donation on line or mail checks to Food Not Bombs, P.O. Box 744, Tucson,
AZ 85702. Please call (1-800-884-1136 ) or email
(katrina@foodnotbombs.net ) us if you can join us on the bus or help with
gas money. We intend to leave in the next two days. Our Food Not Bombs
chapters in New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi have been wiped out. Our
groups in Houston, Austin, San Antonio Jackson, Pensacola, Memphis and
other southern cities are feeding people fleeing the
disaster.

Thanks, Keith McHenry - cofounder of Food Not Bombs.

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/

Food Not Bombs - Northeast USA

Food Not Bombs Needs Help Feeding The Victims of Katrina

Food Not Bombs groups are mobilizing all over the country to feed those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. FNB Hartford is driving a bus to Baton Rouge, LA. on Tuesday Sept. 6 where we will help setup kitchens with other Food Not Bombs volunteers. We really need your help !!!

Donations are being collected at ArtSpace Hartford @ 555 Asylum St.

To find out more check-out www.foodnotbombs.net

To make a donation or for other ways you can help or

if you have any questions contact: Dave-860.978.3562 or Ross-860.930.2467

Reports: Hartford FNB in New Orleans Update 2

Bay Area Radical Health Collective (BARHC)

The Bay Area Radical Health Collective (BARHC) provides medical support for activists and promotes efforts to achieve accessible, high-quality health care for all. We encourage all activists to learn basic first aid to care for themselves and for their friends, coworkers, and communities. We welcome those who wish to obtain more in-depth training or use their existing medical skills and experience to support grassroots health and wellness efforts..

Reports: Report from BARHC caravan in New Orleans | Report #2 from BARHC caravan in New Orleans | Report #4 from BARHC Caravan in New Orleans

Baton Rouge Catholic Worker

Solidarity House

Baton Rouge Catholic Worker

1275 Laurel St

Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Phone: 504-389-9572

Publication: Baton Rouge Catholic Worker

Pastors for Peace

The pastors for peace, a grassroots solidarity aid organization that sends
aid caravans to cuba (breaking the blockade) and central america, is
organizing an emergency aid caravan of five trucks, five routes -- coming
from iowa, LA and new york city, collecting aid along the way.....we
should arrive in new orleans by the end of the week. this is
people-to-people aid, no top-down bureaucracy involved. it's all
volunteers, the only cost is the gas (and biodiesel, when we can get it)
to get the trucks down there. any other money we collect is going to go
to buy more aid for hurricane survivors. and we are taking donations of
all the essentials - food (non-perishable), clothing, blankets, radios,
medicine, etc.

for info, call the pastors for peace at 212-926-5757

website: http://www.ifconews.org/

Please send your check or money order (payable to IFCO) to:

Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)

402 W 145th Street

New York, NY 10031

write 'Hurricane Katrina' on the memo line

New York City

Emergency Meeting on the New Orleans Disaster! Tuesday, Sept 6th, 7:00pm, Bluestockings Books.

Calling all political and social radicals, autonomists, anarchists, anti-authoritarians, or anyone concerned, for an emergency meet up to discuss and plan NYC solidarity, relief / response to the catastrophe in New Orleans.

- Check-In regarding companeros and friends caught in the city or effected by the storm / flooding.

- Discussion of fundraising and assistance to individuals and groups in need.

- Collective statement on the the government's scandalous (and racist / classist) response and bungled rescue efforts.

- Planning for future discussions regarding environmental destruction and racist / classist southern culture, environmental racism, etc.

- Discussion and possible response to media misrepresentations and outright lies.

Bluestockings Books

172 Allen Street

between Stanton and Rivington

212-777-6028

Tuesday, Sept 7th, 2005

7pm

Assist, G.A.ME Taking Donations to Katrina Victims

To Whom It May Concern:

We are requesting your assistance in helping to raise resources (monetary
and other donations) for the gulf coast victims involved in the Katrina
Hurricane. As you may know thousands have been displaced for several days
with virtually nothing due to the deadly Katrina Hurricane that struck last
week. The Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana says thousands may dead in city
alone. Let's help those we can help by donating.

G.A.ME, Inc. will be sponsoring a drive from upstate New York to the gulf
coast where victims are in which one to two trucks will be traveling to the
gulf coast to drop-off all donations. A possible reason you should donate to
G.A.ME, Inc. and other community organizations going directly to the gulf
coast, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas is, none of the donations go
towards our salaries and we have a likeness and a love for the people who
are suffering. This delay in resources shouldn't have happened.
*Donations towards Katrina victims will secure the first 100 donors a free
ticket to the upcoming Black Panther Party Commemoration/G.A.ME Benefit
Concert featuring artists D-Block & Dipset (NYC) 10/7/05. Tickets are not on
sale. *

*Here is a list of acceptable donations:*

Monetary donations towards trucks & gas ? Canned Food - Clothing including
shoes and socks ? Water (bottled) ? Diapers ? Baby wipes ? Food & baby food
? Toothpaste ? Toothbrushes ? Blankets ? Air mattresses & sheets ?
Children's books ? Gas gift cards

*Here is a list of locations & members accepting donations (Last day to
donate: Friday 2PM):*

*Manhattan** (main drop-off location): Hunter College, Thomas Hunter
Building room 305B entrance located at Lexington Ave. between 68th & 69th
Street where G.A.ME has meetings. Drop-offs can be made 2pm-6pm from Tuesday
to Friday afternoon. 347-431-1826. *

*Brooklyn* (contact Greg 718-909-3085)

*Queens* (contact Neh @ 917-287-8155)

Location: 3087 Steinway St. Please call in advance.

*Bronx* (contact L. James 347-431-1826)

Location: 1451 Prospect Ave. 5C Please call in advance.

*New Jersey* (contact Jael 201-655-4482)

Thanks,

L. James

*Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME), Inc will be on WBAI 99.5FM Monday
10PM-11PM speaking about upcoming issues affecting Katrina victims, black
and Latino communities. This is a one-week effort including New Jersey,
Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, & Manhattan. *

*Continue to help Katrina victims by donating to NAACP, Urban League, Black
Churches, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, & December 12th movement in the
tri-state area or people on the ground if you don't mind shipping costs:*

*Center for LIFE Outreach Center

121 Saint Landry Street

Lafayette, LA 70506

atten.: Minister Pamela Robinson

337-504-5374

Mohammad Mosque 65

2600 Plank Road

Baton Rouge, LA 70805

atten.: Minister Andrew Muhammad

225-923-1400

225-357-3079

Lewis Temple CME Church

272 Medgar Evers Street

Grambling, LA 71245

atten.: Rev. Dr. Ricky Helton

318-247-3793

St. Luke Community United Methodist Church

c/o Hurricane Katrina Victims

5710 East R.L. Thornton Freeway

Dallas, TX 75223

atten.: Pastor Tom Waitschies

214-821-2970

S.H.A.P.E. Community Center

3815 Live Oak

Houston, Texas 77004

atten.: Deloyd Parker

713-521-0641

Links

New Orleans Indymedia

Common Ground Clinic

Grassroots/Low-income/People of Color-led Hurricane Katrina Relief

Flyers

Avoiding Mosquito Bites & Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water

Solar Tire Cooker

Do you know a poverty pimp?

Katrina Survivors

Craigslist

News

Katrina Indymedia

Houston Indymedia

New Orleans Indymedia

Stranded employees

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D.C. Radio Co-op

Emergency Aid: Action

Emergency Phone Numbers for People in Distress: (225) 925-7708 / 7709 / 3511 / 7412

Craigslist: Temporary Shelter

hurricanehousing.org: Temporary Shelter

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Craigslist: Volunteer

Craigslist: All Aid Listings

Emergency Aid: Donate

Episcopal Relief & Development: 1-800-334-7626 or er-d.org

United Methodist Committee on Relief: 1-800-554-8583 or methodistrelief.org

Catholic Charities: 1-800-919-9338 or catholiccharitiesusa.org

FEMA Charity tips: fema.gov/rrr/help2.shtm

National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster: nvoad.org

Missing Persons

Craigslist: neworleans.craigslist.org/laf/

NOLA.com: nola.com/forums/searching/

livingtestate.com: http://livingtestate.com/phpbb2/index.php

stoffaproductions.com: http://www.stoffaproductions.com/community/

yahoogroups.com: groups.yahoo.com/group/katrina-refugees/

Hurricane Katrina Recovery

Health and How To

Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water

Satellite Images

Google Maps

NOAA

Other Resources

FEMA: fema.gov/press/2005/resources_katrina.shtm

Wikipedia: Hurricane Katrina

WWLTV Updates: Katrina Updates

Houma Courier: houmatoday.com