Katrina and the Net

Websites and blogs are the primary way that news from the Gulf is getting out. With print media and television disabled, the Net has become irreplacable. Newspapers and TV in the Gulf are using their websites to disseminate news. Most Gulf media…

Podcast: Bush protest in Rancho Cucamonga.

IndyMedia LA interview with ANSWER LA organizer and friend John Beacham about the protest, the cops only giving jaywalking tickets to the anti-Bush people, and how the anti-Bush forces greatly outnumbered the pro-Bush group – who were waving a Confederate…

All the causes are linked

Whether it’s Iraq or the Philippines, it’s the same imperialist US foreign policy. That’s why the Sept. 24 nationwide antiwar demonstations will raise the issues of Palestine, the Philippines, Haiti, and Venezuela as well as Iraq. Because it’s all the…

Media bias

From BoingBoing Black people loot, white people find?. Xeni Jardin:   Flickr user dustin3000 uploads two similar news photos that show flood victims in New Orleans wading in chest-deep water. In each, a person appears to be dragging a bag…

Apocalypse

Home page WWL TV New Orleans All residents on the east bank of Orleans and Jefferson remaining in the metro area are being told to evacuate as efforts to sandbag the levee break have ended. The pumps in that area…

Governor: New Orleans must evacuate

With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, needs to be evacuated. Recovery will take so long…