Sep
2005
More On How You Can Help
My friend, Rachel, put together a fantastic list of resource sites for Katrina relief, I am reposting so the most people as possible can see this and help. LET ME STRESS AGAIN (since some have been confused) ALL ORIGINAL CREDIT FOR THIS GOES TO *RACHEL*, I ONLY REPOSTED IT!
Websites that help people finding their loved ones…
www.nola.com
www.sunherald.com
www.craigslist.org
www.cnn.com
Donate to help the efforts…
www.redcross.org
www.amazon.com/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB (donations made go to the American Red Cross)
www.give.org
How you can help…
www.redcross.org
www.salvationarmyusa.org
www.feedthechildren.org
www.secondharvest.org
www.habitat.org
www.mercycorps.org
www.nokr.org
www.imcworldwide.org
www.army.mil/katrina
www.aspca.org/disaster
Housing and shelters…
www.katrinashelter.com/
relief.welcomewagon.com/
Information about Katrina…
www.nhc.noaa.gov
www.cnn.com
news.bbc.co.uk
www.fema.gov
www.click2houston.com
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/help.center/ (huge list of ways you can help, get help and find information)
The Blog From Another Dimension | September 4th, 2005 at 3:38 pm #
Help
Sean has done a great job of listing places where you can donate money for and get information about the relief operations after Katrina. Please visit and donate. I’ve dropped $200 of my own via my family back in the U.S. Now you can feel all guilty and do it too.
The Blog From Another Dimension | September 11th, 2005 at 1:58 pm #
9/11
I just glanced at the time, and it read 9:11, by chance. Got me thinking about what to comment on in light of the 4th anniversary of 9/11. Should we still be memorializing 9/11? My answer is “no,” because it has lost its true meaning.
Bush is still using it endlessly as an excuse for every screw-up and bad policy move he keeps making. He’s still milking it for every PR dollar its worth, including a Washington D.C. “Pentagon march” instituted by Donald Rumsfeld purportedly to honor 9/11 victims, but which has highly visible allusions to both 9/11 and Iraq–a clear political attempt to link the two.
And this is one of the reasons I’m not big on commemorating 9/11. Not because I don’t sympathize with the families, not because I’m not patriotic–but because Bush & Co. have turned it into one everlasting campaign commercial for whatever policy they want to boost this week, and that usually means Iraq. If you truly want to memorialize and respect the victims of 9/11, then do so with a moment of silence today with your family at the dinner table; then take out your checkbook and donate to the victims of Katrina in the name of the 9/11 victims. That’s a way to respect the dead–not to join in some political parade.
Another reason, close in important to the first, is the same reason why in four years no one will be commemorating the survivors of Katrina–because the event will have passed, mourning will have been done, and life goes on. The victims of 9/11 have been grieved for more than just about any other disaster in memory, and it’s good enough. Time to move on.
Katrina has shown that the government has not taken homeland security seriously at all, and it’s time America woke up and realized that terrorism isn’t the great threat that we’ve been led to believe–at least it’s no more of a threat than it has ever been, and will forever be. Time to reclaim reason, stop allowing politicians to use 9/11 to get us to approve anything they want, and get back to where we were in the late 90′s before this nightmare began.
Mourning has passed. All that remains is politics.