Ray in New Orleans

Thanks for the link. It's just...heartbreaking. This past week, I was talking to someone I know (she's a MSW) who had been down to Baton Rouge to help provide counseling to groups there from New Orleans who are still homeless and disenfranchised. The stuff she was telling me was just gut-wrenching. Patients with heart disease or other critical illnesses can't get medicatioin. Mentally ill people have also been unable to get their medication for weeks, and are having psychotic episodes as a result. Of course, they are sharing spacein encampments with everyone else, and so you have deranged people sleeping next to families with small children--I can't imagine how disturbing this must be for the adults, let alone the kids. Meanwhile, there are FEMA trailer parks with 2/3rds of the trailers empty, because FEMA can't get their shit together. And then, stories of celebrities sending down trailers with supplies as rec centers for kids, and FEMA refusing to allow them to be used because they are not "regulation size." So they just sit there. People totally lost in FEMA's system who have to apply and reapply and reapply for their assistance.

I can't even fathom how in the face of this fiasco Bush can even hold his head up in public. He ought to be ashamed.

Hi, my name is Wakako. I am a student from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA). Group of students is working on project for New Orleans....and we're focusing on Lower 9th ward. In a nut shell, using our proposal, we are trying to encourage displaced residents of lower 9th ward to be involved in decision making and rebuilding process. We're updating daily activities on our blog: http://projectlowerninth.blogspot.com
If you have time, please check out what we're doing;) we're trying to spread the word that we're doing this!!!to original lower 9th residents.

Thanks for sharing....I just emailed the link to all my friends and family. What a powerful film.