NEW ORLEANS DISASTER: NEWS, VIEWS, WHERE TO DONATE

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Interesting background plus

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Gone with the Water, written a year ago
Drowning New Orleans, written 4 years ago

(w/thanks to M. Sinclair Stevens)

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Vacation is over...

an open letter from Michael Moore

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LiveJournal

ongoing live reportage

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NOLA.com

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Statement from N. O. Mayor Nagin

Nagin: - to their congressmen, to the president, to the governor. Flood their doggone offices with requests to do something. This is ridiculous. And I don’t want to see anybody do anymore goddamned press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don’t do another press conference until the resources are in this city and then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can’t even count. Don’t tell me 40,000 people are coming here! They're not here! It's too doggone late. Now get off your asses and let's do something! [Full transcript]