Katrina Propaganda Debunked
Think Progress » Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked Worth a look. (thanks Etherealgirl)
Take Action Katrina Independent Investigation
Ask the President & Congress to Appoint an Independent Nonpartisan Commission to Investigate Government’s Response to Katrina Common Cause calls on the President and the United States Congress to appoint an independent, nonpartisan commission modeled on the 9-11 Commission to investigate government’s response to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. We believe it is critical that the commission be appointed soon. While the foremost priority now has to be the recovery of the affected areas and, especially, the dislocated residents,…
Recognition turning point?
Kudos to Maureen Dowd for giving us the background on the “background” of Bush’s speech in New Orleans. It did look like he might have been speaking at Disneyland, in more ways than one. In a ruined city – still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent submerged; where people are foraging in the miasma and muck for food, corpses and the sentimental detritus of their lives; and where unbearably sad stories continue to spill…
If this land’s still made for you and me
From the man wrote “this machine kills fascists” on his guitar. I wonder why the kids don’t know all these lyrics? They certainly didn’t appear in my own songbook of American folk music. This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me As I went walking a…
Time to rethink
JohnKerry.com – Senator John Kerry’s Speech at Brown University to be delivered later today. Opening remarks and thank you’s then… This horrifying disaster has shown Americans at their best — and their government at its worst. And that’s what I’ve come to talk with you about today. The incompetence of Katrina’s response is not reserved to a hurricane. There’s an enormous gap between Americans’ daily expectations and government’s daily performance. And the gap is growing between the enduring strength of…
Take our country back
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the Sierra Club’s National Convention and Expo on September 10, 2005 in San Francisco. Kennedy received the Sierra Club’s William O. Douglas Award on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance. It’s a stealth attack. The White House has used all kinds of ingenious machinations to try to conceal its radical agenda from the American people, including Orwellian rhetoric. When they want to destroy the…