Author: duranta

[From the diaries by susanhu.]  I write this diary on the People’s Hurrican Relief Fund march yesterday, at blksista’s and Janet Strange’s request. I write this because the image of a small altar on a...

I’m going to tell you in a little bit how to volunteer with Commonground in New Orleans. Let me give a little bit of the layout of the land right now, emotionally speaking. It’s not easy, because the primary emotion...

Stop the evictions of Katrina survivors from hotels and apartment complexes. Period. Just stop it. I’m working with Bill Qiugley and others to try to force the Housing Authority of New Orleans to re-open public housing in...

Unfortunately, I was waiting for this report. I watched in recent days as “officials” in New Orleans disputed the reports of rapes in the Superdome during the disaster. I watched as media types and bloggers accepted...

From the Boston Globe, we have the usual round-up of stories of people who couldn’t afford to get out of the path of the approaching storm. As usual, the poor are left behind to fend for themselves.Do I sound weary of this...