See the pictures here, which reputedly depicts 60 unflooded school buses at the Algiers Bus Barn at 801 Patterson Ave. The image is from google, and was reportedly taken on Wednesday 8/31, two days after the storm came in; the Superdome wasn't evacuated until Saturday. The route between the bus barn and the Superdome and […]
The Reuters report "After Katrina, stories of gun battles" describes the situation in Algiers Point, apparently a gentrified area with restored Victorians. Neighbors armed themselves and formed a neighborhood watch program. It describes a couple carjackings as well as a gun battle between looters and potential lootees. The latter won.
Apparently forums at this site served […]
Cindy Sheehan, Veterans for Peace, a former Black Panther, anarchists, the place has got it all going on:
The locally-led, mutually based community relief effort in Algiers is now being called Common Ground Algiers. Currently, more than 40 volunteer medics, doctors, cooks, communications technicians, community organizers and concerned people are directly involved in the Common Ground […]
The Cindy Sheehan column "A Bright Spot in Bush World" covers a lot of points. In other words, it rambles all over the countryside, with the last paragraph being the most discrediting:
The people on the ground in Covington scoffed at George's little junket to Louisiana yesterday. He stayed in the French Quarter and a Ward […]
