Monday, September 05, 2005

Rapid Response: A flag divided

Posted by Anne Lindsay (NC) at 10:44 a.m.
Rapid Response: A flag divided

The flags began flying at half-staff at government buildings yesterday just as they did during another national tragedy, September 11, 2001.

We have lost hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans during hurricane Katrina and in its aftermath. There continue to be Americans trapped and dying in New Orleans. These are young and old, able-bodied and people with disabilities, African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, and many other races. The majority, though, are African American and poor.


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The Bring Them Home Now Tour is on its way from Crawford, Texas to Washington, D.C. Click here to see the scheduled tour stops. Also, here is the link to the Meet With the Mothers campaign.

This is an idea that arose out of the nights under the stars at Camp Casey. How to spread the spirit and potency of Camp Casey around the country? Congress has been breathig easy while Cindy was outside the door of President Bush. But now it is their turn to answer the questions.

The sponsoring organization is Gold Star Families for Peace. GSFP was founded in December by parents who had suffered the tragic loss of their child in Iraq and learning the war was based on lies and manipulation.

Meet With The Mothers. Org has been founded by independent individuals who have come forward to volunteer their efforts in coordinate and implement taking Cindy Sheehan’s questions to their representatives – the leaders that have the power stop the war. The effort is being undertaken by harnessing the various individuals and groups that came to Crawford to support the effort to meet with the President.

MeetWithTheMothers.Org is being run as a function of Gold Star Families for Peace.

We encourage you to join us and experience the power and love of Camp Casey, and help in any way you can. Cindy Sheehan is going over the Presidents head to the people, join her and support her call for answers from our President AND from YOUR representatives!

6 comments:

  1. Just found out the tour event in Columbus will be on my daughter's birthday, this Thursday. Looking for more details...

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  2. Hope you have a lovely birthday too, listener.

    We've hit a communications snag here. Something is wrong with Demetrius' phone--he thinks it got overheated or something. Hope we can get it to work again. But now I really have to listen to hear him, and the kids aren't making that easy.

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  3. Ditto, listener.

    And to answer your question, John Avarosis at AMERICAblog says,

    Bush orders flags to half staff for Rehnquist. Did he do the same for Katrina victims?

    by John in DC - 9/04/2005 11:40:00 PM

    UPDATE: That's exactly what happened. They did it for Rehnquist today, within hours of his death, and realized it would look rather callous not to do it for the hurricane victims a week AFTER the hurricane. So they did both today. The hurricane victims were a CYA afterthought. Lovely.

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  4. Whoops, John's last name is Aravosis.

    Preview is our friend.

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  5. September 5, 2005

    A Failure of Leadership

    By BOB HERBERT, NY Times


    "Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead"

    Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president's failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.

    The Big Easy had turned into the Big Hurt, and the colossal failure of George W. Bush to intervene powerfully and immediately to rescue tens of thousands of American citizens who were suffering horribly and dying in agony was there for all the world to see.

    Hospitals with deathly ill patients were left without power, with ventilators that didn't work, with floodwaters rising on the lower floors and with corpses rotting in the corridors and stairwells. People unable to breathe on their own, or with cancer or heart disease or kidney failure, slipped into comas and sank into their final sleep in front of helpless doctors and relatives. These were Americans in desperate trouble.

    The president didn't seem to notice.

    Read the entire column.

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  6. listener--something is *wrong* with the cell phone. The screen is all black. He handed it to me to bring inside. So I've got all the windows open so I can listen for him, but the kids still make that hard to do sometimes.

    My son just brought me a bunch of paperwork from school, including a notice from the transportation department that the bus is going to be 15 minutes earlier in the morning. Ack--it's already almost impossible to get him ready on time.

    Deep cleansing breaths...

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