Sunday, September 4, 2005

Day 2 Veterans For Peace Efforts in Hurricane Katrina

Originally published on Michael Moore .com

Day two started with Fred in the Kitchen, he is already keeping the camp running.

The Generator has ran twenty four hours and the police department is bringing us all the gas we need to keep it going.  Katrina victims are finally getting some coffee after days without some.

 

Supplies start coming in early morning.  Water, Water and Water is stacking up while canned goods are packing the little doorway we started in.





The day was spent organizing an impressive departure point for a food distribution program,

 

Having heard the local cities were not getting support we started planning for distribution. 

 

The first truck went out under assignment from the Red Cross, and at that point we were working with them in getting food to shelters that had not been getting the supplies as quickly as they needed.  





Reports keep coming from people that help is plentiful and they don’t need assistance,

this is a farce.  The problem with that analysis is that most victims have a roof still, and don’t need a shelter, so it requires us getting into the community.  In Folsom the Mayor has been AWOL for over a week.  Other cities are worse, and the human experience is horrific as we keep hearing accounts of people who are still being airlifted from New Orleans.

 

Trucks arrived from all over the place with more food than we could imagine, we had only been on the web overnight.  The response was great, and it lasted until nightfall. 

 

We were well stocked to start the next day and prepped up two truck loads to go out.

 

That is the goal, the stores are un lit.  The gas lines are longer than you can imagine. 

 

We need to provide for the people where not only government, but corporations cannot.






We are on the frontline of what some are calling Baghdad South,

how about that, the war is now here in America.

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