Homelessness, Hunger "working out well" for Evacuees
Tara posted at 10:27 p.m. Homelessness, Hunger "working out well" for Evacuees. The post addresses the (sadly not surprising) appalling words by Barbara Bush that I posted in the previous entry here. Since then, I have found out from Atrios that what Barbara said was even worse than what most of us have read. The beginning of her statment was apparently:
"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. "
Lovely woman.
And here's the transcript of Keith Olbermann's smackdown of the Bush administration:
The "city" of Louisiana
New Orleans, and its people, where ever they are are first.
ReplyDeleteAnd have our prayers.
Renee ~~ ThanX for the Dalai Lama song.
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ReplyDeleteDate September 5, 2005 1:38.41PM
From: Justice For All Moderator (jfa@jfanow.org)
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Subject: Emergency Resource Registry Activated. FEMA registration numbers.
DHS National Emergency Resource Registry Activated
The Department of Homeland Security is coordinating response efforts to
provide necessary assistance to communities affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
The Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) serves as the nations
nerve center for information sharing and domestic incident management. At
the request of the HSOC the National Emergency Resource Registry has
been activated.
The NERR stands ready to assist the coordination efforts between the
resources that are needed and the resources that may be available from
the private and public sectors.
If you or your organization / agency / corporation have resources that
may be made available to the response agencies, please list them in this
Resource Registry.
What's Needed Most?
Housing
Transporatation
Emergency Supplies
https://www.swern.gov/
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FEMA registration numbers:
In case you or those you serve haven't gotten this, here are the FEMA
registration numbers. Every single hurricane survivor with a disability MUST
register to be able to receive the full range of federal assistance-
Registrants MUST make clear that they have a disability or chronic health
care need.
1/800-621-FEMA
1/800-462-9029
1/800-462-7585 TDD/TYY
http://www.fema.gov/about/process/ (For on-line registration)
Marcie Roth
Executive Director/CEO
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
6701 Democracy Blvd Suite 300-9
Bethesda, MD 20817
(301) 717-7447 (Direct)
(301) 214-4006 (VM)
(301) 963-1265 (Fax)
(800) 962-9639 (Helpline)
mroth@spinalcord.org
www.spinalcord.org
Go to http://www.katrinadisability.info
RE: Barbara Bush: PArdon my French, but; what a BITCH!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's, as Zaphod Beeblebrox memorably said, a total vocabulary failure! I mean, how can that woman, for lack of a better word, wook at herself in the mirror every day? BLYUCK!!!
puddle, I thought of you when I posted the link. Glad you got to see it.
ReplyDeleteI put a new post up, by the way. Was working on it well before I posted this thread, and wanted to finish it before going to bed.
Date September 5, 2005 8:33.48PM
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Subject: DISASTER PLANNING - our personal preparedness plans and supplies
Thanks to Gwen Gillenwater at aapdgwen@aol.com
DISASTER PLANNING - our personal preparedness plans and supplies
During this three-day weekend, many of us will continue put fund raising
and response plans in place to assist the huge numbers of people with
disabilities affected by the aftermath of Katrina. Many will be watching
and listening to the horrific reports from the Gulf States, awesome in
scale, and hopefully we will finally see emergency response get into
gear.
As we watch and hear about our brothers and sisters with disabilities:
die, suffer, or somehow muddle through?. It is a good time to take stock,
review and update our personal preparedness plans and supplies as well as
those of the organizations we are a part of? here are some resources
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"Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Taking Responsibility For Your
Safety- A Guide For People with Disabilities and Other Activity
Limitations" http://www.cdihp.org/products.html
Disaster Resources for People with Disabilities and Emergency Managers
http://www.jik.com/disaster.html
Emergency Preparedness Initiative (EPI) ? National Organization on
Disability http://www.nod.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageID=11
<>June Isaacson Kailes
Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions
Western University of Health Sciences
jik@pacbell.net || www.cdihp.org